IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rowdy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY193 Rowdy-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY193 Rowdy-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 77KY-193-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46653
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.4121056
  • Std. Longitude: -83.2062073
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a low stream terrace along the eastern shore of Troublesome Creek; 350 feet east of Kentucky Highway 476 about midway between a power pole and the creek channel; about .6 mile north of Stacy (Rowdy P.O.).
  • Map Unit: Gr—Grigsby-Rowdy complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY193—Perry
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY633—Leslie and Perry Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-D2—Noble, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond Hayes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rowdy (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rowdy
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    48—127

    —18—

    —79—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    246.9

    —

    1246

    —

    197

    13.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4202

    Jackson WSO AP

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium platy, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2138; moist when described;
    BA—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2139; moist when described;
    Bw1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2140; moist when described;
    Bw2—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2141; moist when described;
    BC—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2142; moist when described;
    C—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine faint reticulate noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent fine prominent reticulate noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and 25 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY2143; slightly moist when described;