IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houdek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016SD005004D
  • User Pedon ID: S2016SD005004D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0492
  • 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: 44.2115865
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3240770
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • 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: N. Jones
  • 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 - 8 to 26 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2016
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: A. Oxford
  • 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—26

    8—26

    —26—

    —18—
    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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    407

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (4.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout and few (1.0) coarse roots throughout; many (4.0) very fine and few (1.0) medium and common (2.0) fine and few (1.0) coarse pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 17N02561
    Ap—5 to 26 centimeters (2.0 to 10.2 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (4.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout and few (1.0) coarse roots throughout; many (4.0) very fine and few (1.0) medium and common (2.0) fine and few (1.0) coarse pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 17N02562
    Bk—26 to 60 centimeters (10.2 to 23.6 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; 4 percent coarse prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 17N02563