IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fredonia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-227-009
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-227-009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54KY-227-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-227-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46447
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location Description: D.F. Jones farm; Rt. 2; Smith Grove, KY; 0.5 mile E of US Hwy 31-W; on KY Hwy 101; photo no. and date: KY-SCD-48, DMP-44-49(2).
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-A2—Smiths Grove, Kentucky
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.V. Huffman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fredonia
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fredonia
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of high grade limestone or old alluvium.
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1954 (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

    LESPE

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    99 -

    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

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0568
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse columnar structure; slightly hard, firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0569
    Bt2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 30 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0570
    Bt3—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 25-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # KY0571
    BC—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY0572
    R—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); fragments.