IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MCKELVIE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SD121005
  • User Pedon ID: 93SD121005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0489
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65832
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 43.1713905
  • Std. Longitude: -100.9838867
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1110 feet west and 0 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 3 1/2 miles west and 1 1/2 miles north of St. Francis.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD121—Todd
  • MLRA: 66—Dakota-Nebraska Eroded Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD121—Todd County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kenneth Heil and Allen Faulkner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MCKELVIE
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McKelvie
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/11/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/11/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    45

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    90

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03626
    AC—13 to 48 centimeters (5.1 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy fine sand; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03627
    C1—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loamy fine sand; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03628
    C2—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03629
    C3—91 to 203 centimeters (35.8 to 79.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; massive; soft, very friable; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P03630