IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minkler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013WA057006
  • User Pedon ID: S2013WA057006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 48.5240000
  • Std. Longitude: 122.1660000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: std longitude -122.166, std lat. 48.524, WGS84; 326 m west and 515 m S of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Minkler sampling site, 6 Km northeast of Sedro Woolly, WA.
  • Map Unit: 92—Minkler silt loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA057—Skagit
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MTV—Mount Vernon, Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA657—Skagit County Area, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48122-E2—Sedro-Woolley North, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy, amorphic over isotic, mesic Aquic Haploxerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minkler (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy, amorphic over isotic, mesic Aquic Haploxerands
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/1994
  • Classifier - Bob Engel
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: recent alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: BAL
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—16

    16—152

    16—152

    16—152

    41—200

    —33—

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    —-

    —-

    —41—
    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

    2

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    —

    25

    —

    1270

    —

    190

    10

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), black (2.5Y 2.5/1), moist; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; many (5.0) medium tubular and many (5.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.
    Cg1—16 to 33 centimeters (6.3 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loamy sand; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (2.0) medium roots and common (2.0) fine roots; common (2.0) medium tubular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.
    2Cg2—33 to 152 centimeters (13.0 to 59.8 inches); sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) fine roots; many (20.0) very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions.