IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1948IL129004
  • User Pedon ID: S1948IL129004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2748
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37328
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 40.0102768
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9572220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SE 40, 125 feet west and 100 feet north of southeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL129—Menard
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL129—Menard County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.B. Fehrenbacher and E.P. Whiteside
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clary
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/1948
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/1948 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    7

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; thin platy structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21612
    BE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; coarse granular structure; moderately sticky; faint gray (5YR 5/1) clay depletions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21613
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderately sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21614
    Bt2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderately sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21615
    BC—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; slightly sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21616
    C1—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21617
    C2—122 to 155 centimeters (48.0 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21618
    C3—155 to 173 centimeters (61.0 to 68.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21619