IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wakonda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SD027079
  • User Pedon ID: S1993SD027079
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0248
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66394
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 42.8513870
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9652786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 52W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 352 feet west and 148 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD027—Clay
  • MLRA: 102B—Till Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD027—Clay County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42096-G8—Vermillion, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kent E. Cooley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 79
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakonda (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2015
  • Classifier - Jackson, Grant
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakonda
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    —

    —

    372

    —

    45

    635

    —

    —

    9.4

    23.3

    -5.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    8622

    Vermillion 2 southeast

    TAPS
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) oxidized, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses throughout; 21 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 3 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses throughout and 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01321
    Bky1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) oxidized, dry; silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine prominent irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 3 percent fine irregular gypsum masses throughout and 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01322. Bky1 and Bky2 had zones with more clay (sicl texture) but patchy and discontinuous.
    Bky2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) oxidized, dry; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent irregular and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent irregular and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent irregular mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses throughout; 21 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 3 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses throughout and 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01323
    Bky3—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent irregular and 3 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent irregular and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses throughout; 21 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 21 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses throughout and 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01324
    Cyg1—89 to 157 centimeters (35.0 to 61.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, light gray (5Y 7/2) oxidized, dry; silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent irregular and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium prominent irregular and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium prominent irregular mottles; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine and medium spherical noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules throughout and 21 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01325
    2Cyg2—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) oxidized, dry; clay loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium prominent irregular and 3 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine and medium prominent irregular and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium prominent irregular mottles; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium spherical noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses throughout; 3 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses throughout and 3 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 94P01326