IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baxter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-099-001
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-099-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY-099-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-099-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46709
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 5.2 miles SE of Munfordville; 0.6 mile S of the intersection of KY Hwy 88 and Caldwell Church Road; 1,000 feet E of Caldwell Church Road in pasture field.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY099—Hart
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY099—Hart County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Hail, Arlin Barton, et al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Baxter
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Baxter
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/23/1983 (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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red clover

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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

    7

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2563
    BA—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume angular 12-?-150 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2564
    Bt1—25 to 64 centimeters (9.8 to 25.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2565
    Bt2—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) gravelly clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume angular chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2566
    Bt3—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) very gravelly clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 12-?-350 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2567
    Bt3—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KY2568
    Bt4—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) gravelly clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent prominent clay films; 20 percent by volume 12-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY2569