IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelbyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY211 Shelbyville-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY211 Shelbyville-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 77KY211 Shelbyville-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 77KY-211-031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46650
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.2082443
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1744461
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 50 feet south of U.S. 60, 250 yards east of junction with KY 1871, about 2 miles east of Shelbyville.
  • Map Unit: ShB—Shelbyville silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY211—Shelby
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY211—Shelby County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-B2—Shelbyville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Hail and Orville Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbyville (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbyville
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Grant Lake Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    POPR

    Poa pratensis

    Kentucky bluegrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—165

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    —141—
    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

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    253

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    1225

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    161

    11.7

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    KY7324

    Shelbyville 1 E

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2162; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 35 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2163; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 468610; patchy - phpvsfiid 468610
    Bt2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2164; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 468611; patchy - phpvsfiid 468611
    Bt3—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 5 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2165; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 468612; patchy - phpvsfiid 468612
    2Bt1—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2166; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 468613; continuous - phpvsfiid 468613
    2Bt2—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; 25 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules and 25 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2167; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 468614; patchy - phpvsfiid 468614
    2Bt3—142 to 165 centimeters (55.9 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 75 percent clay films; 25 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY2168; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 468615; patchy - phpvsfiid 468615