IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ironcity
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003TN103001
  • User Pedon ID: 2003TN103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0738
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15582
  • Print Date: 5/7/2025

    • 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: 35.0643349
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5913925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Park City, Tennessee; Jimmy McAlister Farm; Highland Rim Road
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN103—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35086-A5—Lincoln, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Brasfield, D. Clendenon and E. Davis Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ironcity
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landform: broad upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2003 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    2075

    McAllister Farm

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03667
    BA—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly gravelly silt loam; 21 percent brown (10YR 4/3) coarse mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03668
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03669
    Bt2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly silty clay loam; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; on rock fragments and 30 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03670
    Bt3—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; on tops of rock fragments and 30 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03671
    Bt4—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; on rock fragments and 30 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 80 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 03N03672