IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KY101003
  • User Pedon ID: 06KY101003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KY-101-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46363
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.6588898
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6716690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hwy 145 and Dixie Ln across from Powell Brothers Family house on ridge
  • Map Unit: MoB2—Memphis silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY101—Henderson
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY101—Henderson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-F6—Poole, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eddie Tudor, Scott Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2006
  • Classifier - Scott Aldridge
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thick fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Loess member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—23

    23—168

    —23—

    —145—
    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

    —

    —

    144

    —

    1136

    —

    197

    13.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY3762

    Henderson 7 SSW

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0186; moist when described; observed in push tube
    AB—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0187; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 333012; continuous - phpvsfiid 333012
    Bt2—43 to 97 centimeters (16.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0188; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 333013; continuous - phpvsfiid 333013
    Bt3—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 30 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, manganese masses; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0189; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 333014; continuous - phpvsfiid 333014
    Bt4—130 to 185 centimeters (51.2 to 72.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0190; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 333015; continuous - phpvsfiid 333015
    Bt5—185 to 241 centimeters (72.8 to 94.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments.; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 333017; continuous - phpvsfiid 333017