IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA191024
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1910024
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0468
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 43.3705559
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8708344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 99N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 240 feet south and 420 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA191—Winneshiek
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA191—Winneshiek County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: over Peoria silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00132110

    DECORAH, IA US

    NOAA
    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02782. (10YR 4/4) subsoil mixings. Few small black (10YR 2/1) accumulations.
    1Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02783. Thin discontinuous (10YR 7/2) dry silt coats. Common small (10YR 2/1 and 7.5YR 3/2) accumulations equal less than 1mm. 28 to 38 cm sample number 86P2784.; few clay films surface features; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231522; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231522
    1Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02785. Think discontinuous (10YR 7/2) dry silt coats. Common small (10YR 2/1 and 7.5YR 3/2) accumulation equal to less than 1 mm. 53 to 71 cm sample number 86P2786.; common clay films surface features; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231523; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231523
    1Bt3—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02787. Thin discontinuous (10YR 7/2) dry silt coats. Common samll (10YR 2/1 and 7.5YR 3/2) accumulations equal to less than 1 mm. 81 to 94 cm sample number 86P2788.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220565; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220566; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220565; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220566
    1Bt4—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Thin discontinuous (10YR 7/2) dry silt coats. Few medium (7.5YR 3/2) accumulations equal to 3-4 mm.; few fine faint 7.5YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220567; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220568; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220567; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220568
    1BC—114 to 137 centimeters (44.9 to 53.9 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Some dark clay flows in tubular pores. Few small (10YR 2/1, 3/2 and 7.5YR 5/6) accumulations.; few fine faint 7.5YR56 mottles
    1C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Some dark clay flows in tubular pores. Few small and medium accumulations.; few fine faint 7.5YR56 mottles