IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zanesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 64KY085027
  • User Pedon ID: 64KY085027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4298
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40461
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.3961667
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4821944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 miles south of Caneyville, on Hassie Anderson farm; 590 feet north by northwest of Anderson residence; 110 feet west of northwest corner of woods.
  • Map Unit: ZaB—Zanesville silt loam, 2 to 6 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-D4—Caneyville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr., Orville Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone and/or shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 122cm
  • Geology: Tradewater And Caseyville Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

    noncoherent

    indurated

    61 - 122

    122 - 147

    - 61 -

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—122

    61—122

    122—

    —18—

    —104—

    —61—

    —-
    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

    2

    —

    —

    185.9

    —

    1243

    —

    178

    13.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4703

    Leitchfield 2 N

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt21—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 fine and medium pores; 10 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary.
    B22—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine faint and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; firm; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bx1—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 8 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 8 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; brittle; 2.0 pores; 25 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 5-12-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary.
    2Bx2—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 5/1) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; brittle; 20 percent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded 6-16-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7.
    R—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.