IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wichita
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S57-TX207-0294
  • User Pedon ID: MLRA78-Wichita-TX207-0294
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4464
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40617
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 33.1666679
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8266678
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hwy 24 & US Hwy in Haskell, E to Hwy 24 for 5.2 mi. S side of Hwy, 30 feet from edge of Hwy.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX207—Haskell

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I.C. Mowery
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wichita
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    1A p—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A34140. Noncalcareous; few small gravel.
    1B 21t—18 to 64 centimeters (7.1 to 25.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A34141. few small ferromanganese concretions; occasional small gravel.; few clay films surface features; patchy - phpvsfiid 365010; patchy - phpvsfiid 365010
    1B 22tca—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34142. strongly calcareous; many soft and hard CaCO3 concrtns that occupy about 3% of the mass, many fine ferromanganese concrtns; few fine gravel.
    1B 23tca—102 to 147 centimeters (40.2 to 57.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34143. strongly calcareous; large soft lumps of CaCO3 occupy about 10% of the mass.
    1B 24tca—147 to 188 centimeters (57.9 to 74.0 inches); silty clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34144. Same as above except only occasional soft lumps of lime, and contains some shaly Permian Red Bed material.