IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055061
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055061
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975MN055061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2083
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82811
  • 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: 43.5183759
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3030950
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1120 feet north and 2560 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: First bottom along Winnebago creek about 1/2 mile west of Mississippi River bottom land
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Newalbin
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • 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
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the RO10 Field Documentation Archive maintained by Adolfo Diaz, RO10 GIS Specialist. This web map can be accessed using the following link: http://arcg.is/1iDqnO Google Chrome is recomended to explore the map. At its full extent, the web map will display the 9 states that make up Region 10 along with a summary of the number of pedons per state. Since there are too many points to display at the full extent you will have to zoom in to an approximate scale of an average county. Once zoomed in you will notice that the pedons will appear both in the legend (Table of content area) and in the map. Once displayed, you can click on any point to open the identification window and get basic information such as: Series Name, location description, Lat-Long and other information. The original document has also been embedded as an attachment and can be previewed by clicking on the pdf file within the identification window. This database represents a snapshot and will be updated once a month. This database can also be directly streamed into an ArcGIS/ArcPro session to be overlaid with your project layers. However, to do so you must have an ArcGIS Online for Organizational account. If you are interested in this please let Adolfo Diaz know and he can work with you to set it up. As a recap, here are the main objectives of this project: 1. Inventory and digitally archive - As soil survey crews finalized surveys and made their way to different offices, many of the original soil survey documentation was left behind or simply discarded as being irrelevant material. The inventory process was an opportunity to collect and organize this legacy documentation. For preservation and accessibility purposes these files were also scanned. 2. Develop a GIS database In order to view the spatial distribution of our inventory and perform spatial queries, pedons with a valid location were digitized. As part of this process, each pedon was assigned a unique siteID using the current NASIS naming convention. 3. Enter into NASIS as needed Having pedons in a GIS gives the user the advantage of spatially assessing field documentation availability and determine whether a pedon should be entered into NASIS for project purposes. If you have any questions contact: Adolfo Diaz, RO10 GIS Specialist, Madison, WI Shaunna Repking, MLRA Soil Scientist, Onalaska, WI

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/6/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POA

    Poa

    bluegrass

    grass/grasslike

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

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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

    —

    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 gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. not sampled
    C1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500257. thin seams of 10YR3/1; thin varves 1/2 - 1 mm thick
    C2—20 to 138 centimeters (7.9 to 54.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 25 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam, loamy very fine sand; 12 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500258. interbedded strata or varves 1/2 to 2mm thick consisting of 10YR4/2, 10YR5/2, and 10YR3/1 (25%); few thin varves of loamy very fine sand
    C3—138 to 162 centimeters (54.3 to 63.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky; few very fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500259. interbedded strata 1-2mm thick mostly 10YR4/2 with 10YR3/2 exteriors, few strata of 10YR5/2 and 10YR4/2
    Ab1—162 to 176 centimeters (63.8 to 69.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # MN500260. not sampled
    Ab2—176 to 188 centimeters (69.3 to 74.0 inches); black (N 2/0) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. slightly organic
    Ab3—188 to 213 centimeters (74.0 to 83.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine pores; fragments. Lab sample # MN500261. small patches of 10YR4/2 animal workings