IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plainfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85IL125003
  • User Pedon ID: 85IL125003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 40.3756306
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9523389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: about 795 feet south and 2,205 feet east of the NW section corner; MLRA 115
  • Location Description: Described 1/2/85 as Plainfield Sand (54B) from photo #9 in Quiver Township as Typical Pedon of the 1995 Soil Survey in Mason County
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL125—Mason
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL125—Mason County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40089-D8—Duck Island, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William M. Teater, Paul R. Krane, & W. K. S.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • 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 - Plainfield
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy drift
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    3.5

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    154

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    1025

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    190

    13

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 0.8 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary.
    BC—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 very fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary.
    C—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sand; single grain; loose; 0.8 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4.