IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wamego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103505
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103505
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103505
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40223
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 39.0597229
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0889053
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet north and 1400 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Sy—SIBLEYVILLE LOAM, 4 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A1—Tonganoxie, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wamego
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 53 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered sandstone and shale at 110cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    95 - 110

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—40

    53—95

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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

    1

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    180

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    A—0 to 40 centimeters (0.0 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3089
    AB—40 to 53 centimeters (15.7 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3090
    Bt1—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3091
    Bt2—84 to 95 centimeters (33.1 to 37.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 8 percent fine faint threadlike noncoherent cemented iron depletions in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3092
    Cr—95 to 110 centimeters (37.4 to 43.3 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3093