IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IA061007
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IA061007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976IA061007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X6198
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74849
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 42.3177169
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8839948
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 87N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2260 feet south and 1300 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA061—Dubuque
  • 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: IA061—Dubuque County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntsville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Worthen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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 scans archive.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    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

    4

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    270

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02426. neutral
    A1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02427. slightly acid
    A2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02428. slightly acid
    A3—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02429. slightly acid
    BA—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats and silt coats on all faces of peds and sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110839; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110840; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110839; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110840
    Bw—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films and silt coats on all faces of peds and sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02430. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110842; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110843; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110841; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110842; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110843; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110841
    BC—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; silt coats on all faces of peds and sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02431. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110844; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110845; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110844; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110845
    C—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments. slightly acid