IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherokee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986IA0350043
  • User Pedon ID: 86IA0350043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0334
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59629
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.8822212
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8363876
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 475 feet N and 900 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; cloddy, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01678. 20% streaks and pockets of (10YR 4/3).
    1BA—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 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; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01679. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221669; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221669
    1Bw1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01680
    1Bw2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01681
    2BC—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01682. Common medium shale fragments. Horizon spilt for sampling 61 to 74 cm 87P1682 and 61 to 86 cm 87P1683.; common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    2C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 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) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 11 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01684. Common medium shale fragments.; common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; common fine faint 10YR52 mottles