IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McCook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88KS061320
  • User Pedon ID: 88KS061320
  • User Site Association ID: KS061- Geary County Box SamplesKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS061320
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40976
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet north of the Gradview Plaza waste stabilization lagoon and 200 feet east of the township road in special section
  • Location Description: About 1 mile north of Grandview Plaza.
  • Map Unit: Mc—MCCOOK SILT LOAM, RARELY FLOODED2347—McCook silt loam, rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-A7—Junction City, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Graber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McCook
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 132 cm of Depth to buried soil


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—48

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    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

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    820

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    181

    11.8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2859
    A—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2860
    AC—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2861
    C1—64 to 114 centimeters (25.2 to 44.9 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2862
    C2—114 to 132 centimeters (44.9 to 52.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2863
    Ab1—132 to 160 centimeters (52.0 to 63.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2864
    Ab2—160 to 173 centimeters (63.0 to 68.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine granular, and medium structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2865
    2C—173 to 196 centimeters (68.1 to 77.2 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2866