IDENTIFIERS
Current Taxon Name (Soil Name):
Minneiska
OSD
Series Extent
User Site ID:
S1976MN055051
User Pedon ID:
S1976MN055051
Lab Information:
Certified Lab Pedon Description -
no
Lab Source ID -
UMNSSL2
Lab Pedon # -
UMN2376
NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID -
82847
Print Date:
2/17/2025
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:
43.6879845
Std. Longitude:
-91.6040012
Datum:
WGS84
GPS - Positional Error:
10.00
Township:
103N
Range:
6W
Section:
31
PLSS Details:
20 feet south and 1800 feet east of the northwest corner
Location Description:
east of Houston; Money Creek
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-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Mollic Udifluvents
Current Taxon Kind:
series
Pedon Type:
not classified to current taxon name
Pedon Purpose:
laboratory sampling site
Pedon Record Orgin:
Pedon PC6.0B
Correlated Information:
Soil Name -
Minneiska
PSC -
25 to 100 cm.
Classificaton Date -
12/2/2013
Classifier -
Unknown
Moisture Class -
udic
Moisture Subclass -
typic
Sampled As Information:
Soil Name -
Minneiska
Taxonomic Class -
Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Mollic Udifluvents
Taxon Kind -
series
PSC -
25 to 100 cm.
Classificaton Date -
12/2/2013
Classifier -
Unknown
Moisture Class -
udic
Moisture SUBClass -
typic
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:
alluvium
Slope Complexity:
simple
Surface Fragments:
Benchmark Soil?:
no
RaCA Information:
Plot/Site Set Up By -
Unknown
Plot or Site Recorder -
Unknown
VEGETATION
SITE OBSERVATION
Observation Date:
12/2/2013 (entry creation date)
Data Collector:
Unknown
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
—
—-
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
—
—
—
—
—
899
—
155
8
22
-5
12
22
2
558
—
0009
LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US
NOAA
A1—0 to 51 centimeters (0.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; 9 percent clay; weak very fine platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; few fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500370. high in f and vf sand; moderately calcareous with HCL
AC—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loamy sand; 5 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500371
C1—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500372
C2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN500373