IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hobbs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS201039
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS201039
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS201039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40168
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.8913040
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1795425
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles north and 1.5 miles west of Morrowville, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ho—HOBBS SILT LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS201—Washington
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS201—Washington County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-H2—Washington NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Mollic Ustifluvents
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 120 cm of Depth to buried soil and 215 cm of Depth to water table


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: meander belt
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); 45 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 40 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2077; observed in push tube
    C1—18 to 50 centimeters (7.1 to 19.7 inches); 45 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 45 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2078
    C2—50 to 75 centimeters (19.7 to 29.5 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2079
    C3—75 to 99 centimeters (29.5 to 39.0 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2080
    C4—99 to 120 centimeters (39.0 to 47.2 inches); 45 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2081
    Ab1—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2082
    Ab2—150 to 190 centimeters (59.1 to 74.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2083
    Bwb—190 to 215 centimeters (74.8 to 84.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # KSUSS2084