IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherokee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012KS099001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012KS099001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0431
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72643
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.2640500
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0864583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 15, T 32, R 21
  • Map Unit: 8460—Cherokee silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS099—Labette
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS099—Labette County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-C1—McCune, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, JR Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherokee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Cherokee Group formation of the Pennsylvanian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: G. Campbell, JR Perkins
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    0—20

    20—213

    20—213

    41—213

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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

    0.2

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    256

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01768
    Bt—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btg1—41 to 89 centimeters (16.1 to 35.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Btg2—89 to 147 centimeters (35.0 to 57.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Btg3—147 to 173 centimeters (57.9 to 68.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Btg4—173 to 213 centimeters (68.1 to 83.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.