IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76KY-025-005
  • User Pedon ID: 76KY-025-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 76KY-025-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 76KY-025-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46637
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 37.4681206
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1609879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robinson Forest; along Little Millseat watershe, small cove on south side.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY025—Breathitt
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY025—Breathitt County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-D2—Noble, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Weather product of colluvial material from acid sandstone, siltstone, and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: cove, drainageway
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    LITU

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    tuliptree

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    127 -

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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

    40

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2065
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2066
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2067
    Bt1—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2068. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635534; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635534
    Bt2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2069. continuous - phpvsfiid 635535; continuous - phpvsfiid 635535
    Bt3—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY2070
    R—127 to 137 centimeters (50.0 to 53.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.