IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 61KY183001
  • User Pedon ID: 61KY183001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 61KY183001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 61KY-183-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46481
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 37.7183056
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8111111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 miles NE of Whitesville, Stuart Hines Farm - 200 yards south of Old Panther Church and across from cemetery.
  • Map Unit: WeD3—Wellston silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY183—Ohio
  • 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: KY183—Ohio County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-F7—Whitesville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 28 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and siltstone at 91cm
  • Geology: Tradewater And Caseyville Formations formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    91 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—10

    28—66

    91—

    —10—

    —38—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    8

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    —

    149.4

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    1240

    —

    188

    14.1

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    KY0490

    Beaver Dam

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0851
    BA—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0852
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0853
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0854
    C1—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0855
    C2—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY0856
    Cr—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.