IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cottonwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999TX075001
  • User Pedon ID: 99TX075001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0147
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 34.4334183
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0895538
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet south on county road and 100 feet east of the northwest corner of Section 456
  • Location Description: Childress County, Texas;from the intersection of Farm Road 2530 and U.S. Highway 287 in Childress; 1.2 miles north on Farm Road 2530, 5.8 miles east on Farm Road 268, 1150 feet south on county road and 100 feet east in cropland.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX075—Childress
  • MLRA: 78B—Central Rolling Red Plains, Western Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-ABL—Abilene, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX075—Childress County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34100-D1—Kirkland North, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Ressel, R. Gelnar, C. Neitsch, J. Gordon, C. Salisbury, R. Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cottonwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1999
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsic loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: SS #39
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    0.5

    —

    —

    510.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01093; observed in pit, small
    Cdy—13 to 58 centimeters (5.1 to 22.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; loam; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01094; observed in pit, small
    Cy1—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; loam; 25 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; 1 percent by volume metaquartzite fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01095; observed in pit, small
    Cy2—76 to 203 centimeters (29.9 to 79.9 inches);, 38 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 37 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; loam; 25 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; 1 percent by volume metaquartzite fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 00P01096; observed in pit, small