IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Council
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0552385
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0552385
  • User Site Association ID: Loamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2385
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47668
  • 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: 43.6911697
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5750580
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: north of root river
  • 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-F5—Sheldon, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 108
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Council
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mayville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1976
  • 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: Peoria silty loess over residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

    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

    30

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    0

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238501; moist when described;
    E—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    BE—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; black (10YR 2/1), moist, worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238502; moist when described;
    Bt1—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238503; moist when described;
    Bt2—69 to 127 centimeters (27.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238504; moist when described;
    BC—127 to 160 centimeters (50.0 to 63.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; coats on all faces of peds; fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238505; moist when described;
    C—160 to 180 centimeters (63.0 to 70.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN238506; moist when described;