IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherokee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986IA0350042
  • User Pedon ID: 86IA0350042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0333
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59628
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 42.8819427
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8349991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 329 feet N and 1300 feet E of the SW corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA035—Cherokee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Ceolla
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherokee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Eutrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1986 (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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; cloddy, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01672. 20% streaks and pockets of (10YR 4/3).
    1BA—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01673. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221668; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221668
    1Bw1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01674
    1Bw2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01675. Horizon split for sampling 51 to 64 cm 87P1675 and 64 to 76 cm 87P1676.
    2BC—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 87P01677. Common fine shale fragments.; common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; common medium distinct 10YR52 mottles
    2C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Common fine shale fragments.; few fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common medium distinct 10YR52 mottles; common medium faint 7.5YR56 mottles