IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cathro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016WI099022
  • User Pedon ID: S2016WI099022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016WI099022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0041
  • User Project ID: STEI_005_NEON
  • Project Name: Steigerwaldt Land Services
  • 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: 45.8043690
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0523000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 3045A—Lupton, Cathro, and Tawas soils, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI099—Price
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI099—Price County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45090-G1—Pike Lake SE, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Whited
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Humaqueptic Endoaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathro
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Humaqueptic Endoaquents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2016
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: woody organic material over loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 22
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - STEI_022
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 45
  • Plot Baseline Length - 11
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Scott Eversoll, Michael England, Ryan Bevernit

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Scott Eversoll, Michael England, Ryan Bevernitz
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - swamp
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACRU

    ALINR

    BEPA

    COAR7

    FRNI

    LALA

    OSCL2

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    Alnus incana ssp. rugosa

    Betula papyrifera

    Cornus xarnoldiana [amomum x racemosa]

    Fraxinus nigra

    Larix laricina

    Osmunda claytoniana

    balsam fir

    red maple

    speckled alder

    paper birch

    dogwood

    black ash

    tamarack

    interrupted fern

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    histic epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    weatherable minerals

    0—25

    0—5

    2—25

    25—100

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    —5—

    —20—

    —75—
    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

    0

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    490

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (N 2/), mucky peat; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00221; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) muck; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00222; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg—25 to 54 centimeters (9.8 to 21.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) sandy loam; 15 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 20 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 17N00223; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—54 to 100 centimeters (21.3 to 39.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 17N00224; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket