IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelbyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-211-002
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-211-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-211-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-211-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46506
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Dewey Ruble farm; 200 yards S of US Hwy 60; 1 mile E of Clay Village.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY211—Shelby
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY211—Shelby County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-B1—Waddy, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.P. Fehr and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Humic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbyville
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbyville
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1966 (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

    DAGL

    TRIFO

    Dactylis glomerata

    Trifolium

    orchardgrass

    clover

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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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1069
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1070
    Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY1071
    Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent fine cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY1072
    Bt3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent fine cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY1073
    Bt4—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent fine cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY1074
    BC1—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); light gray (N 7/), and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent fine cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 30 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY1075
    2BC2—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent fine cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 30 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY1076