IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Festina

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1976MN0552334

User Pedon ID: S1976MN0552334

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2

Lab Pedon # - UMN2334

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82823

Print Date: 12/7/2025

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: 43.6043392

Std. Longitude: -91.3775462

Datum: WGS84

GPS - Positional Error: 10.00

Township: 102N

Range: 5W

Section: 25

PLSS Details: 1075 feet north and 1350 feet west of the southeast corner

Location Description: LOCATION SUSPECT SEE SITE TEXT NOTES

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-E3—Reno, Minnesota

PEDON

Describers Name: Unknown

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: TUD pedon

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Festina

PSC - 33 to 83 cm.

Classificaton Date - 12/1/1976

Classifier - Unknown

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Bertrand

Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 33 to 83 cm.

Classificaton Date - 12/1/1976

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: silty alluvium

Landform: stream terrace

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: 12/1/1976 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: Unknown

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover

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 argillic horizon redox depletions with chroma 2 or less	— — —	—- —- —-

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

Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and many fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233401; moist when described;. slightly acid

BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam, silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots and many fine roots; thin grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds and thin grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233402; moist when described;

Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233403; moist when described;. slightly acid

Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233404; moist when described;. medium acid

Bt3—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; common fine tubular pores; thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233405; moist when described;. medium acid

BC—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; 24 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; few fine roots; few fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # MN233406; moist when described;. medium acid

C—152 to 168 centimeters (59.8 to 66.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 16 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; friable; fragments. Lab sample # MN233407; moist when described;