IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-195-014
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-195-014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-195-014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46727
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 37.4922867
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2390137
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Dick's Knob.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.A. Kelley, W.C. Lynn, and M. Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • PSC - 25 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from sandstone-noncalcareous material over local colluvium from sandstone-noncalcareous material
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 94cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Forest
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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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

    70

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2654
    Bw1—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2655
    Bw2—27 to 55 centimeters (10.6 to 21.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2656
    Bw3—55 to 77 centimeters (21.7 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery sandy loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct and 15 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2657
    C—77 to 94 centimeters (30.3 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; very friable; 50 percent by volume 2-?-300 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2658
    R—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2659