IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA105012
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IA105012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983IA105012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X53-930-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74811
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 42.2792819
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0363626
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 86N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 620 feet south and 800 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA105—Jones
  • 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: IA105—Jones County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1983
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1983
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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: 10/11/1983 (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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

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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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    180

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00131257

    CASCADE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01292
    C1—28 to 71 centimeters (11.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam to very fine sand; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; massive; friable; few fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01293. thin lenses of very fine sand; common fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/S) mottles in the lower part; massive with weak bedding planes that result largely from stratification during deposition; neutral
    Ab1—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent and red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01294. mixed with some dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2)
    Ab2—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent and brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01295
    C2—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and black (10YR 2/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; massive; friable; few fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01296. mixed very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; thin strata of grayish brown (10YR 5/2); common fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/S) mottles; appears massive but has some vertical cleavage; medium acid