IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-227-001
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-227-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54KY-227-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-227-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46443
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Carlyle Miller farm; Bowling Green, KY; RR# 3 on Matlock Pike; located 0.5 mile N of Matlock, KY; Pit is located on SCS Map KY-SCD-48, sheet CN-4-77 (3).
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY227—Warren
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY227—Warren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • PSC - 18 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1954 (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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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    48 - 84

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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); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0545
    Bt—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0546
    Btx1—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silt loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; brittle; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0547
    Btx2—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0548
    2Btb1—84 to 135 centimeters (33.1 to 53.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # KY0549
    2Btb2—135 centimeters (53.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY0550