IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Silver Creek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1949NE079008
  • User Pedon ID: S1949NE079008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1949NE079008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2174
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36328
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 40.9744453
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3416672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 NE 1/4 of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 8023—Wood River-Silver Creek silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE079—Hall
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE079—Hall County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Natraquolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Silver Creek
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Natraquolls
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/1949
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or lacustrine deposits and/or limy water deposits of loess
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/1949 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17147
    A12—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17148
    B2—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly plastic; carbonate masses; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17149
    B3—91 to 135 centimeters (35.8 to 53.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), white (10YR 8/1), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17150
    C1—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; fine sandy loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; 10 percent weakly coherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A17151, 40A17152, 40A17153