IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vilas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016WI085006
  • User Pedon ID: S2016WI085006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0922
  • User Project ID: MLRA_2017_10-RHI_001
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Soil Forest Sustainability Investigation Project
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 45.8616000
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5461100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 18
  • Map Unit: 3369C—Keweenaw-Sayner-Vilas complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes, stony
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI085—Oneida
  • MLRA: 94D—Northern Highland Sandy Pitted Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI085—Oneida County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45089-G5—Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex Gajdosik; Ryan Bevernitz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Entic Haplorthods
  • 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 - Vilas
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, frigid Entic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2016
  • Classifier - Ryan Bevernitz
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Ryan Bevernitz

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ryan Bevernitz, Alex Gajdosik
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    spodic horizon

    0—7

    7—26

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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

    8

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    206

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and few medium roots and many fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03340; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; few medium roots and common fine roots and few coarse roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 18N03341; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loamy sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03342; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—26 to 50 centimeters (10.2 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03343; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—50 to 83 centimeters (19.7 to 32.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03344; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—83 to 200 centimeters (32.7 to 78.7 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N03345; moist when described; observed in pit, small