IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KY-111-003
  • User Pedon ID: 00KY-111-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KY-111-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46341
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Jefferson County, KY; southwest of old nut house.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY111—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-B7—Louisville West, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford and Scott Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    18

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KY0043
    A—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0044
    AB—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0045
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0046
    Bt2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0047
    Bt3—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0048
    Bt4—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam, loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0049
    BC—165 to 208 centimeters (65.0 to 81.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY0050, KY0051