IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IL085004
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IL085004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1976IL085004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 76IL085004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20825
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025
  • 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: 42.3205556
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3763889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1540 feet east and 50 feet south of the center
  • Location Description: about 1.5 miles east of Wise Lake and the Mississippi River
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL085—Jo Daviess
  • 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: IL085—Jo Daviess County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42090-C4—Bellevue, Iowa
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chuck E. Nelson, Timothy J. O'Connor, Lester Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1976
  • Classifier - Chuck Nelson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    BC

    C

    0

    18

    30

    53

    86

    119

    18

    30

    53

    86

    119

    183

    University or KSSL Laboratory

    University or KSSL Laboratory

    University or KSSL Laboratory

    University or KSSL Laboratory

    University or KSSL Laboratory

    University or KSSL Laboratory

    7.2

    7

    6.5

    5.5

    5.8

    5.8

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    BC

    C

    0

    18

    30

    53

    86

    119

    18

    30

    53

    86

    119

    183

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    BC

    C

    0

    18

    30

    53

    86

    119

    18

    30

    53

    86

    119

    183

    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    311

    90

    899

    155

    8.2

    21

    -5.9

    IL8293

    Stockton 1 N

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24397
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24398
    Bt2—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24399
    Bt3—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24400
    BC—86 to 119 centimeters (33.9 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; silt coats on all faces of peds and 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24401. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498596; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498596
    C—119 to 183 centimeters (46.9 to 72.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.6 fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine faint masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # IL24402