IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cincinnati
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80KY-223-025
  • User Pedon ID: 80KY-223-025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 80KY-223-025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 80KY-223-025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46692
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2 miles south of Milton; 50 feet south of US 421 and 50 feet north of private lane. X: 1,683,400 feet, Y: 436,200 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY223—Trimble
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY622—Henry and Trimble Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-F3—Madison East, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cincinnati
  • PSC - 36 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cincinnati
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or glaciofluvial deposits and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1980 (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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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

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    69 - 140

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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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2437
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2438
    Bt—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats and 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2439. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638299; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638299
    2Btx1—69 to 107 centimeters (27.2 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2440. continuous - phpvsfiid 638301; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638302; continuous - phpvsfiid 638301; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638302
    2Btx2—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2441. continuous - phpvsfiid 638303; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638304; continuous - phpvsfiid 638303; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638304
    3Btb1—140 to 175 centimeters (55.1 to 68.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2442. continuous - phpvsfiid 638305; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638306; continuous - phpvsfiid 638305; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638306
    3Btb2—175 to 206 centimeters (68.9 to 81.1 inches); clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # KY2443
    4Btb3—206 to 236 centimeters (81.1 to 92.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY2444. continuous - phpvsfiid 638307; continuous - phpvsfiid 638307