IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75KY-217-004
  • User Pedon ID: 75KY-217-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 75KY-217-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 75KY-217-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46628
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 150 yards E of a county road; about 8,200 feet SW of Saloma; about 6 miles NW of Campbellsville.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY217—Taylor
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY620—Green and Taylor Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/1975 (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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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

    25

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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; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2004
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2005. continuous - phpvsfiid 635577; continuous - phpvsfiid 635577
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); clay; fragments. Lab sample # KY2006
    Bt3—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2007
    Bt4—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); clay; fragments. Lab sample # KY2008
    Bt5—137 to 155 centimeters (53.9 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and light gray (10YR 7/1) clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2009
    C—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and light gray (10YR 7/1) clay; platy structure; 30 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY2010