IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelbyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY-211-032
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY-211-032
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 77KY-211-032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 77KY-211-032
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46651
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 50 feet W of private lane; 50 feet N of Christianburg Road; 0.4 mile E of Old Chritianburg; about 10 miles NE of Shelbyville.
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbyville
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbyville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1977
  • 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
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1977 (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

    MESA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Medicago sativa

    orchardgrass

    alfalfa

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2169
    Bt1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2170
    2Bt2—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2171
    2Bt3—91 to 130 centimeters (35.8 to 51.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2172. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638251; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638251
    2Bt4—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY2173