IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McHenry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992IL111035
  • User Pedon ID: S1992IL111035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0635
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65978
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 42.3852882
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3311539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 60 feet S and 1095 feet E of the NW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL111—McHenry
  • MLRA: 95—Eastern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and Upper Michigan Drift Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL111—McHenry County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.A.D. and D.E.C.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 35
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McHenry
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McHenry
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-123
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04486. continuous - phpvsfiid 175564; continuous - phpvsfiid 175564
    E—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04487. continuous - phpvsfiid 175565; continuous - phpvsfiid 175565
    BE—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04488. continuous - phpvsfiid 175566; continuous - phpvsfiid 175566
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04489. continuous - phpvsfiid 175567; continuous - phpvsfiid 175567
    2Bt2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04490. continuous - phpvsfiid 175568; continuous - phpvsfiid 175568
    2Bt3—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04491. continuous - phpvsfiid 175569; continuous - phpvsfiid 175570; continuous - phpvsfiid 175569; continuous - phpvsfiid 175570
    2C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable; 10 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; 21 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 93P04492. 92P4493