IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nolin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY085005
  • User Pedon ID: 2013KY085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-085-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46519
  • 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: 37.5146028
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5490028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: One-fourth mile northwest of Tousey, one-half mile south of KY Highway 54, and 100 feet northeast of bridge across Spring Fork.
  • Map Unit: No—Nolin silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY085—Grayson
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY085—Grayson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-E5—Falls of Rough, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr., Orville Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nolin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/23/2012
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nolin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1964
  • Classifier - Frank Cox Jr.
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—132

    —20—

    —112—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    134.4

    —

    1243

    —

    178

    13.1

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY4703

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1198; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 71 centimeters (7.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1199; moist when described;
    Bw2—71 to 132 centimeters (28.0 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # KY1200; moist when described;