IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70KY185010
  • User Pedon ID: 70KY185010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 70KY-185-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46563
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.4568972
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4984778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.4 miles northwest of the junction of U.S. Highway 42 aqnd Kentucky Highway 393, 0.25 mile southwest of the confluence of Dunbar Hollow and the Ohio River, across from the chute from Eighteen Mile Island
  • Map Unit: Hu—Huntington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY185—Oldham
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY185—Oldham County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-D4—La Grange, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Orville Whitaker and James Fehr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntington
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntington
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—183

    —25—

    —158—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    129.5

    —

    1133

    —

    205

    13.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4954

    Louisville WSFO

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1515, KY1516
    B21—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats; 1 percent worm casts between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1517, KY1518. continuous - phpvsfiid 369525; continuous - phpvsfiid 369525
    B22—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1519. continuous - phpvsfiid 369526; continuous - phpvsfiid 369526
    B23—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and 15 percent black stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1520. continuous - phpvsfiid 369527; continuous - phpvsfiid 369527
    B24—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) medium faint mottles; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine pores; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and 15 percent black stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1521, KY1522, KY1523. continuous - phpvsfiid 369528; continuous - phpvsfiid 369528
    B25—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine pores; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # KY1524. continuous - phpvsfiid 369530; continuous - phpvsfiid 369530