IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1928IL185001
  • User Pedon ID: 1928IL185001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 28IL185001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20367
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.5217882
  • Std. Longitude: -87.7074016
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 14
  • Location Description: E side of rd. 100 YDS S of Allendale town limits
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL185—Wabash
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL185—Wabash County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1928
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1928 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13012
    A2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13013
    B21—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13014
    B22—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13015. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429033; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429033
    B3—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13016. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429034; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429034
    C1—102 to 216 centimeters (40.2 to 85.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine distinct and 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments.
    IIC—216 centimeters (85.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments.