IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sumter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MS101003
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MS101003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4837
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41526
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 32.2479553
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1833954
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: southwest quarter of northwest quarter
  • Location Description: 5-1/2 miles south of Newton.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS101—Newton
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS101—Newton County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. C. Carter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Rendollic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2019
  • Classifier - Chris Hatcher
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Rendollic Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/1958
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/26/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AVC-2G-13
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    36—66

    —15—

    —30—
    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

    3

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    —

    137

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions; 3 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36718; moist when described;
    AB—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36719; moist when described;
    Bk—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and white (2.5Y 8/1) silty clay, silty clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine and medium brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions; 50 percent fine and medium noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36720; moist when described;
    Ck1—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and yellow (10YR 7/8) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) marl; weak coarse angular blocky parts to massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.0 roots; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate nodules; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36721; moist when described;
    Ck2—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and yellow (10YR 7/8) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) marl; weak coarse angular blocky parts to massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.0 roots; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36722; moist when described;