IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Newalbin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055047
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055047
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 43.7909428
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3909411
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 104N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 420 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Houston County, Minnesota; about 4 miles southwest of Hokah
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN055—Houston
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN055—Houston County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-G4—Mound Prairie, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Newalbin (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Newalbin (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2003
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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: silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Air Photo ID: I-9
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    1

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine platy structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    Cg—8 to 145 centimeters (3.1 to 57.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) stratified stratified silt loam; weak very fine platy structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. very thin strata of grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) very fine sand
    2Ab—145 to 213 centimeters (57.1 to 83.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine and 2.0 fine pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified.