IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pipestone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MI021011
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MI021011
  • User Site Association ID: 2025-NEGRP-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1966
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36124
  • User Project ID: 2025-NEGRP-013
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 97 - Pipestone loamy sand, lake moderated, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 7/8/2025

    • 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: 42.1833458
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3980331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of NE 1/4 of NE 1/4; 1172 feet S and 99 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Hagar Township
  • Map Unit: 57A—Thetford loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI021—Berrien
  • MLRA: 97—Southwestern Michigan Fruit and Vegetable Crop Belt
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI021—Berrien County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42086-B4—Benton Heights, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Stroesenreuther and J. Larson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, mesic Oxyaquic Alorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pipestone
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/18/2025
  • Classifier - Sydney Lance
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pipestone
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, siliceous Entic Haplaquods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1975
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy drift
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: lake border moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F097XA006MI Moist Acidic Sandy Flatwoods Feb 21 2025 Sydney Lance

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Soil Survey Staff
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—30

    18—30

    30—46

    81—152

    81—152

    —30—

    —12—

    —16—

    —71—

    —71—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    195.5

    —

    270

    932

    —

    151

    9.5

    21

    -2.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    200710

    Benton Harbor Airport

    NWS COOP
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sand; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15622; moist when described;
    E—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15623; moist when described;
    Bhs—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) sand; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15624; moist when described;
    Bs—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15625; moist when described;
    BC—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15626; moist when described;
    Cg—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A15627; wet when described;