IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clinton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955IL001007
  • User Pedon ID: S1955IL001007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955IL001007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37329
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.7577782
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0374985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: SW 160, SW 40, SW 10, 37 rods north and 106 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL001—Adams
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL001—Adams County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Herman L. Wascher, George O. Walker, Charles E. Downey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clinton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clinton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1955 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LESPE

    POA

    Lespedeza

    Poa

    lespedeza

    bluegrass

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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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    3

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate coarse platy structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21620
    A2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21621
    B1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; pale brown (10YR 6/3) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21622
    B21—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coats and pale brown (10YR 6/3) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21623
    B22—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to angular blocky structure; firm; gray (10YR 6/1), dry, coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21624
    B23—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky; gray (10YR 6/1), dry, coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21625
    B24—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and white (10YR 8/1) and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21626
    B3—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1) coarse prominent and 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21627
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse prominent mottles; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21628
    152 centimeters (59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A21629. Not sampled.