IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chetek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN1631721
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN1631721
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1721
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49905
  • Print Date: 4/16/2025

    • 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: 45.2546310
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8933334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 700 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN163—Washington
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN163—Washington County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45092-C8—Forest Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chetek
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burnsville
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/6/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy outwash over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/6/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN172101
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 26 percent clay films between sand grains; 9 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN172102
    2Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy sand; massive, and single grain; very friable; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 6 percent clay films between sand grains; 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN172103
    2C1—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) very gravelly coarse sand; massive, and single grain; loose; 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN172104
    2C2—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN172105