IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Estherville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN145009 (1814)
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN145009 (1814)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1814
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47699
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 45.3995628
  • Std. Longitude: -94.2684860
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 122N
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 30 feet south and 825 feet east of the northwest corner of NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-D3—Rockville, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Saari
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Estherville
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed 44b
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1974
  • 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: gray outwash
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1974 (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
    • 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); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN181401; dry when described;
    Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN181402; dry when described;
    Bw2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) gravelly loamy sand; loose; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # MN181403; moist when described;
    BC—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly coarse sand; loose; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # MN181404; moist when described;
    C—64 to 137 centimeters (25.2 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; loose; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 23 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.7. Lab sample # MN181405; moist when described;