IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Uniontown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KY-007-001
  • User Pedon ID: 04KY-007-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04KY-007-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KY-007-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46348
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.1612778
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0592804
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ballard County, KY; Ballard Wildlife Management Area; 2.5 miles west of Oscar, 1400 feet west of Butler Lake and Lake Sough.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY007—Ballard
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY602—Ballard and McCracken Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36087-G1—Olmstead, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.E. McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Uniontown
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dubbs
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0099
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0100
    Bt2—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0101
    Bt3—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 7 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds and 10 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings throughout and 10 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese masses throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0102
    Bt4—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 12 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 15 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings throughout and 15 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese masses throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0103
    Bt5—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 35 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 15 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings throughout and 20 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese masses throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0104
    2BC—152 to 188 centimeters (59.8 to 74.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings throughout and 10 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese masses throughout and 20 percent medium faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # KY0105
    2C—188 to 213 centimeters (74.0 to 83.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # KY0106