IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fivemile
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965WY013016
  • User Pedon ID: S1965WY013016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965WY013016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3113
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38242
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.2999992
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6955566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, SE1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: Start at center of Fivemile Creek bridge. Proceed 760 feet northeastward on road paralleling canal, thence 180 feet east. TL1 photo CCK-13N-194.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY013—Fremont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY677—Fremont County, Wyoming, Lander Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harold Bindschadler
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fivemile
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: CCK13N194
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    ATGA

    ATGA

    ELEL5

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Atriplex gardneri

    Atriplex gardneri

    Elymus elymoides

    Indian ricegrass

    Gardner's saltbush

    Gardner's saltbush

    squirreltail

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    1676

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    229

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    10.6

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; loose, loose, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24334
    C1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24335
    C2cacs—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; gypsum crystals, unspecified and spherical lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24336
    C3—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21 percent fine threadlike gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24337. Lamellae with silt partings, lamellae range in thickness from 1/4 to one inch; very thin 1/8 to one inch lenses of silty clay loam with decomposed plant residues; lower part contains many fine faint threads of crystalline gypsum.
    C4—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; fine sandy loam; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24338
    C5—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21 percent threadlike gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24339. Some lamellae contain partially decomposed plants residues and many faint threads of crystalline gypsum.
    C6—122 to 157 centimeters (48.0 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; threadlike and spherical noncoherent cemented lime masses and gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A24340. Threads and soft rounded masses of secondary lime and gypsum.