IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Floyd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016IA023003
  • User Pedon ID: S2016IA023003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0576
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 42.8955700
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5745300
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1710 feet north and 110 feet west of SE corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA023—Butler
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA023—Butler County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee Camp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Pachic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Floyd
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Pachic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2016
  • Classifier - Ryan Dermody
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - soybeans
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: Dissected till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Lee Camp & Ryan Dermody
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—51

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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

    2.5

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02955; observed in push tube
    A1—19 to 51 centimeters (7.5 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02956; observed in push tube
    BA—51 to 65 centimeters (20.1 to 25.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02957; observed in push tube
    Bw—65 to 111 centimeters (25.6 to 43.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02958; observed in push tube
    2BC—111 to 200 centimeters (43.7 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02959, 17N02960; observed in push tube