IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stokly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KY019 Stokly-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 05KY019 Stokly-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05KY019 Stokly-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KY-019-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46359
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.3118057
  • Std. Longitude: -82.7448883
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In Boyd County 14 miles south of Ashland on Route 3, 1.5 miles west of the confluence of East Fork of the Little Sandy River and Four Mile Creek, along Four Mile Creek in a bottom 30 feet north of Four Mile Creek.
  • Map Unit: Sn—Stokly fine sandy loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY019—Boyd
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY605—Boyd and Greenup Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38082-C6—Boltsfork, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluventic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stokly
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stokly
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 71 centimeters of Free Water


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    PTERI

    SALIX

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Pteridium

    Salix

    tall fescue

    brackenfern

    willow

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—13

    13—86

    43—203

    —13—

    —73—

    —160—
    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

    3

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    195.1

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    1087

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    157

    11.6

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    153391

    GRAYSON 3 SW

    COOP
    Ag—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) exterior sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent medium prominent dendritic noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0162; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bw—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter quartz fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0163; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bg1—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 45 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter quartz fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0164; very moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bg2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 40 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0165; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Cg1—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior sandy loam; massive; friable; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 40 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0166; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Cg2—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior stratified stratified very gravelly sandy loam to very gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; friable; moderately rapid permeability; high excavation difficulty; 45 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 10-20-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in push tube
    Cg3—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior stratified stratified gravelly sandy loam to gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; friable; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 100 percent coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, reduced matrix with diffuse boundaries throughout; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 10-20-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube