IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kiro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS177011
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS177011
  • User Site Association ID: 2194Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10699KS177-7095-001a
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KS177011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41181
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.0898247
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7640762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 15 E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet north and 300 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Km—KIMO SILTY CLAY LOAM, RARELY FLOODED7095—Kiro silty clay, depressional, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS177—Shawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS177—Shawnee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A7—Silver Lake, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Fluvaquentic Epiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kiro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Fluvaquentic Epiaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/22/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 49 percent of clay and 47.6 percent of silt and 3.4 percent of sand and 2.4 percent of total carbon and 6.5 pH


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Geology: Holliday Terrace Complex formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/22/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—104

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    Setting and Climate
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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1832
    A2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1833
    A3—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1834
    A4—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1835
    AC—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1836
    2C—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1837