LOCATION JESTER OK+TXEstablished Series
The Jester series consist of very deep, excessively drained, rapidly permeable soils that formed in sandy eolian Holocene sediments. These very gently sloping to steep soils are on undulating to steep dunes adjacent to flood plains of major streams and drainageways in the Central Rolling Red Plains (MLRA 78B, 78C) and Southern High Plains Breaks (MLRA 77E). Low areas of this soil are subject to rare flooding. Slopes range from 1 to 45 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, thermic Typic Ustipsamments
TYPICAL PEDON: Jester fine sand, rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 8 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand, brown (10YR 4/3) moist; single grained; soft, very friable; many fine and few medium and coarse roots; slightly effervescent; slightly alkaline; clear wavy boundary. (4 to 12 inches thick)
C1--8 to 27 inches; light brown (7.5YR 6/4) fine sand, brown (7.5YR 5/4) moist; single grained; loose; few fine roots; faint cross bedding is present; strongly effervescent; moderately alkaline; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 18 inches thick)
C2--27 to 80 inches; pink (7.5YR 7/4) fine sand, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) moist; single grained; loose; few fine roots; faint cross bedding is present; strongly effervescent; moderately alkaline.
TYPE LOCATION: Woods County, Oklahoma; about 5 miles south and 1 mile east of Waynoka; 1150 feet south and 1800 feet west of the northeast corner Sec. 31, T. 24 N., R. 15 W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to bedrock is greater than 80 inches. The textural control section is loamy fine sand or coarser. No gravel or secondary carbonate accumulations are present within the profile. Depth to an apparent water table is 6 to 20 feet.
The A horizon has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture is fine sand, loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or sand. Reaction is neutral to moderately alkaline and range from noneffervescent to slightly effervescent.
Some pedons have an AC horizon which has hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 4 or 6. Texture is loamy fine sand, loamy sand or fine sand. Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline and have slight to strong effervescence.
The C horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 5 through 8, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture is fine sand, loamy sand, sand, or loamy fine sand. Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline and have slight to strong effervescence. Some pedons contain stratified alluvial sediments below 40 inches.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Goodnight, and Tivoli series and the similar Milsand, Likes, and Nutivoli series. The Goodnight soils occur in more moist climates. The Likes, Milsand and Nutivoli soils occur in drier climates. The Tivoli soils are on uplands, are in a dryer climate, and noncalcareous in the control section.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Jester soils are adjacent to flood plains of major streams and rivers in the Central Rolling Red Plains and Southern High Plains Breaks. These soils are on long narrow undulating to hummocky dunes adjacent to present or past stream channels. Low areas of this soil are subject to rare flooding. Most areas of this soil are surrounded by, or are adjacent to occasionally flooded soils. Slopes are 1 to 45 percent. They formed in sandy calcareous eolian sediments of Recent age. Mean Annual Precipitation: 22 to 28 inches. Mean Annual Temperature: 57 to 65 degrees F. Thornthwaite Annual P-E indices: 32 to 44. Frost free days range from 185 to 230. Elevation ranges from 1000 to 2500 feet.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the competing Tivoli (OK) series of the same family and the Daycreek (OK), Devol (OK), Ezell (OK), Gracemore (OK), Gracemont (OK), Hardeman (TX), Lincoln (OK), and Westola (OK) series. Daycreek soils are on similar landscapes and have a water table within 60 inches of the surface. Devol and Hardeman soils have coarse-loamy particle-size control sections and are on higher landscape positions. Ezell, Gracemore, Gracemont, Lincoln, and Westola soils are on surrounding or adjacent flood plains. Ezell soils pond water for extended periods of time. Gracemore and Gracemont soils have a water table near the surface most of the year. Gracemore and Lincoln soils are loamy fine sand or coarser in the textural control section; and Gracemont and Westola soils are coarse loamy in the textural control section. Tivoli soils are higher in the landscape and are not calcareous in the control section.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Jester soils are excessively drained; permeability is rapid. Runoff is negligible on slopes less than 5 percent, very low on 5 to 20 percent slopes and low on 20 to 45 percent slopes. Depth to an apparent water table is 6 to 20 feet, from January through December.
USE AND VEGETATION: Jester soils are used mainly for grazing. Native vegetation is tall grasses with a small percentage of Cottonwood, Hackberry, and plum trees. Some areas have been planted to improved bermudagrass or Weeping lovegrass.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Central Rolling Red Plains (MLRA 78B, 78C) and Southern High Plains Breaks (MLRA 77E) of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The soil is of minor extent.
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Temple, Texas
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Woods County, Oklahoma; 1995. Name is from a small community in Greer County.
REMARKS: These soils were formerly included with the Tivoli, Likes, and Lincoln series.
Soil Interpretation Record: Series OK0360
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this soil:
Ochric epipedon: the zone from the surface of the soil to a depth of 8 inches (the A horizon).
Psamments: less than 35 percent by volume rock fragments and a texture of loamy fine sand or coarser in all layers between the Ap horizon or a depth of 25 cm from the mineral soil surface, which ever is deeper, and a depth of 100cm.
Moisture regime: Typic-Ustic.