IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kickerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981WA073015
  • User Pedon ID: 81WA073015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0527
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49371
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 48.9788895
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3916702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet N and 700 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 4 mi NE of Lynden.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA073—Whatcom

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Vitrandic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kickerville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kickerville
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03112. NaF pH 11.5; many very fine roots
    1Bw—25 to 55 centimeters (9.8 to 21.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03113. NaF pH 12.0; common very fine roots
    2Bw—55 to 80 centimeters (21.7 to 31.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03114. NaF pH 12.0; few very fine roots
    3C1—80 to 105 centimeters (31.5 to 41.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03115. NaF pH 12.0
    3C2—105 to 170 centimeters (41.3 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; very gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P03116. NaF pH 11.5