IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70KY225001
  • User Pedon ID: 70KY225001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 70KY-225-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46565
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 37.6342239
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1483612
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 700 feet east of KY Highway 667, 3 miles south of KY Highway 67, 1000 feet east of Ohio River.
  • Map Unit: Hs—Huntington silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY225—Union
  • 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: KY635—Union and Webster Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37088-F2—Shawneetown, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eullas Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • 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 - 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 - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 18
  • 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—

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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

    1

    —

    —

    103

    —

    1120

    —

    196

    14.4

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY6595

    Providence

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1531
    Bw1—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; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1532, KY1533. continuous - phpvsfiid 347689; continuous - phpvsfiid 347689
    Bw2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; 5 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1534. continuous - phpvsfiid 347690; continuous - phpvsfiid 347690
    Bw3—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; 5 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1535
    Bw4—91 to 124 centimeters (35.8 to 48.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; very friable; 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats; 5 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1536
    Bw5—124 to 183 centimeters (48.8 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; very friable; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # KY1537, KY1538