IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Council
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977WI081009
  • User Pedon ID: S1977WI081009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977WI081009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5211
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42458
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 43.9958344
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9075012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet south and 1320 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 4.5 miles northwest of Sparta
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI081—Monroe
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI081—Monroe County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Council (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2021
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Council (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2000
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over loamy colluvium derived from sandstone over residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: sandstone controlled upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—152

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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

    19

    —

    —

    268.2

    —

    0

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00475164

    MATHER 3 NW, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; few (0.9) very fine and few (0.9) fine pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse platy structure; friable; few (0.9) very fine roots throughout; few (0.9) very fine and few (0.9) fine pores; 6 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 6 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) loam; weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse platy structure; friable; few (0.9) very fine roots throughout; few (0.9) very fine pores; 26 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt3—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse platy structure; friable; few (0.9) very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine pores; pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist, sand coats on vertical faces of peds and 26 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt4—81 to 135 centimeters (31.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak very coarse platy structure; friable; very fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine pores; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 26 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt5—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine and few (0.9) fine pores; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds and 6 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 6 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 6 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified.