IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Payne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981TX027004
  • User Pedon ID: 81TX027004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0312
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49156
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 30.9944439
  • Std. Longitude: -97.4102783
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bell County, .5 mi NW on County Rd. 436 .5 mi S and .4 mi W of paved County Rd. Site is 20 meters N in cultivated field.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX027—Bell
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. F. Ratliff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Payne
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Payne
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Udic Paleustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; very hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P01603. common fine roots
    1B21t—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01604. Clay films are slightly darker than matrix; few seams of material from overlying horizons.; common fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 214906; continuous - phpvsfiid 214906
    1B22t—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01605. few fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 214907; continuous - phpvsfiid 214907
    1B23tca—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01606. common soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 214908; patchy - phpvsfiid 214908
    1B24tca—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P01607. About 40 percent by volume pitted CaCO3 concretions up to 7.5 cm in diameter.; few fine roots