IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hennepin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 82IL011071
  • User Pedon ID: 82IL011071
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 41.2898083
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5117806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: about 880 feet south and 528 feet west of the NE section corner; MLRA 108A
  • Location Description: Located at the edge of the town of Tiskilwa in a forested area
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL011—Bureau
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL011—Bureau County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41089-C5—Wyanet, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David B. Rahe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hennepin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hennepin
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous glacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: bluff
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    56

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    181

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    1025

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    190

    13

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; ; 3 percent by volume mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 708091; continuous - phpvsfiid 708091
    Bw2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 fine roots; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 708092; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 708092
    C—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; massive; friable; 0.8 fine roots; 8 percent by volume mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0.