IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sumter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12AL101001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012AL101901
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72688
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.1019333
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2004278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2012 NRI Soil Monitoring Network On - Site Data Collection
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL101—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-TUS—Tuskegee, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL101—Montgomery County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JLB/L.McGhee/S.Long/D.Hopkins/C.Nichols
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, thermic Rendollic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from chalk
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Triangle Plot Side Length - 18
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - LM,JB,SL

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 26
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3); moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03142; observed in push tube
    BA—9 to 20 centimeters (3.5 to 7.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03143; observed in push tube
    Bk—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6); moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03144; observed in push tube
    BCk—40 to 68 centimeters (15.7 to 26.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03145; observed in push tube
    Cr—68 to 200 centimeters (26.8 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 12N03146; observed in push tube