IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairchild
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WI019001
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WI019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0601
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64840
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 44.4402771
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7505569
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1340 feet south and 90 feet east of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI019—Clark
  • MLRA: 89—Wisconsin Central Sands
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI019—Clark County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Duane Simonson, Rich Johannes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, siliceous, semiactive, frigid Ultic Epiaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairchild
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Classifier - Duane Simonson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairchild
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy over loamy, siliceous, frigid Aqualfic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1991
  • Classifier - Duane Simonson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Duane Simonson
  • Air Photo ID: E-21
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    paralithic contact

    spodic materials

    albic materials

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    0—28

    8—28

    28—46

    66—81

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    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    —

    —

    280

    —

    345

    775

    —

    128

    6

    21

    -7

    10

    23

    0

    533

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    479218

    WILLARD, WI US

    NOAA/COOP
    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. partially decomposed leaf and grass litter
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03615
    E—11 to 31 centimeters (4.3 to 12.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P03616
    Bhs—31 to 36 centimeters (12.2 to 14.2 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03617
    Bs—36 to 49 centimeters (14.2 to 19.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03618
    Bw—49 to 69 centimeters (19.3 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent and 5 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03619
    2Bt—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) loam; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent faint olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03620
    2Cr—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) bedrock; fragments. weakly cemented sandstone & light gray (5YR 7/2) soft shale