IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calloway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TN047002
  • User Pedon ID: S1959TN047002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959TN047002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4934
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41623
  • Print Date: 2/17/2026

    • 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: 35.0177765
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2438889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 17 miles southeast of Somerville, on Cowan Brothers farm, 2 miles south of LaGrange and 650 yards east of LaGrange-Michigan City gravel road. Photo ADB-1F-106 (1950).
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN047—Fayette
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN047—Fayette County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. L. Flowers and E. C. Sease
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calloway
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flat
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ADB-1F106
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    SOBIB

    Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor

    grain sorghum

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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
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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; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37351
    B2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37352
    B31mg—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37353
    B32mg—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; vesicular pores; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) dark concretions; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A37354
    B33mg—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 pores; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A37355
    B34mg—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37356
    B35mg—127 to 188 centimeters (50.0 to 74.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent black stains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37357
    2CU—188 to 203 centimeters (74.0 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37358