IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Collins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TN047010
  • User Pedon ID: S1959TN047010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4941
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41630
  • Print Date: 4/21/2026

    • 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: 35.3375015
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4008331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 7 miles northwest of Somerville along the Stanton Road, 50 feet east of road and 100 feet north of creek on Alexander Harvey farm.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN047—Fayette
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN047—Fayette County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. C. Sease
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Collins
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ADB-2F-44
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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
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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37420
    C1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; weak very fine platy structure; very friable; 3.0 pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37421
    C2G—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 21 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium faint and 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint and 21 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) medium faint mottles; weak fine granular, and massive; very friable; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37422
    C3G—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and gray (10YR 6/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent medium faint mottles; massive; very friable; 3.0 pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37423
    C4G—107 to 137 centimeters (42.1 to 53.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint and 3 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium faint and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; massive parts to weak fine granular; very friable; 3.0 pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37424
    C5G—137 to 218 centimeters (53.9 to 85.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A37425. Water came into hole at 54 inches. Too much water to sample below 54 inches. Bored from 54 to 96 inches. From 54 to 86 inches about same as 42-54 inches except much more concretionary material and more gray; probably B3m of buried Calhoun
    2C3—218 to 244 centimeters (85.8 to 96.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; 3 percent gray (10YR 6/1) coarse faint and 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse faint mottles; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37426