IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baxter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY047001
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-047-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46605
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 36.7425000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6407111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in woods 100 feet north of Lonnie Walker Highway, at entrance of Little River Church Road, 1.4 miles southeast of Peedee, about 14 miles southwest of Hopkinsville
  • Map Unit: BaD—Baxter gravelly silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY047—Christian
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY047—Christian County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36087-F6—Roaring Spring, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Baxter
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: karst upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: St. Louis Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—244

    —43—

    —201—
    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

    20

    —

    —

    138.7

    —

    90

    1306

    —

    191

    13.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY3994

    Hopkinsville

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) cherty silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-35-75 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1845
    A2—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) cherty silt loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat angular 76-100-250 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-35-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1846
    B21t—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent silt coats and 35 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-35-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1847
    B22t—56 to 191 centimeters (22.0 to 75.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) cherty silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 65 percent clay films; 9 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-35-75 millimeter chert fragments and 26 percent by volume nonflat angular 76-100-250 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1848, KY1849
    B23t—191 to 218 centimeters (75.2 to 85.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent black stains on faces of peds and 65 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1850, KY1851, KY1852
    B24t—218 to 244 centimeters (85.8 to 96.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; 35 percent black stains on faces of peds and 65 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY1853