IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 61KY085001
  • User Pedon ID: 61KY085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 61KY-085-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46480
  • 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: 37.4861944
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3063611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: William Britt Farm - about 1 mile northwest of court house - on Sunbeam Road. Sampled in woods about 300 yards directly behind house.
  • Map Unit: WlC—Wellston silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • 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-D3—Leitchfield, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy noncalcareous loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Hardinsburg Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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—13

    13—81

    —13—

    —68—
    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

    8

    —

    —

    243.8

    —

    1243

    —

    178

    13.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4703

    Leitchfield 2 N

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0846
    BA—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0847
    Bt1—13 to 48 centimeters (5.1 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0848
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0849
    2Bt3—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # KY0850