IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chenoa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IL113006
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IL113006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60479
  • User Project ID: 201711AUR007
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 110 - Chenoa silty clay loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 40.7138806
  • Std. Longitude: -88.6115944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2409 feet west and 75 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 250 feet E and 75 feet S of cement marker
  • Map Unit: 614B—Chenoa silty clay loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL113—McLean
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-IND—Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL113—McLean County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-F5—Fairbury, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.D.W.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenoa
  • PSC - 30 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenoa
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1988
  • Classifier - RDW
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over calcareous till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—30

    30—61

    79—79

    —30—

    —31—

    —0—
    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

    2

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    —

    216

    —

    90

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01824
    Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01825
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01826
    Bt3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01827
    2BC—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions throughout and 5 percent fine prominent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-25 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01828
    2C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; structureless massive; very firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions throughout and 5 percent fine prominent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-25 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P01829