IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houdek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016SD005003A
  • User Pedon ID: S2016SD005003A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0484
  • 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: 44.2121986
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3259928
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Map Unit: HoA—Houdek-Prosper loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD005—Beadle
  • MLRA: 55C—Southern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD005—Beadle County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Kuykendall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houdek
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2016
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Kuykendall
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—34

    15—34

    —34—

    —19—
    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

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    393

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and weak medium granular structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02528
    Ap—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and weak medium granular structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02529
    Bt—15 to 34 centimeters (5.9 to 13.4 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) fine pores; 5 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02530
    Bk—34 to 72 centimeters (13.4 to 28.3 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine pores; 3 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02531
    BCk—72 to 152 centimeters (28.3 to 59.8 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; loam; 26 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine pores; 1 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02532