IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jessietown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY155 Jessietown-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY155 Jessietown-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY155 Jessietown-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-155-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46716
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.4817009
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1875610
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 7.5 miles southeast of Lebanon; 6,000 feet southeast of the junction of KY Highway 49 and KY Highway 1157.
  • Map Unit: JeB—Jessietown-Trappist complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY155—Marion
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY155—Marion County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37085-D2—Bradfordsville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley and Bill Craddock
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Jessietown (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jessietown
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2009
  • 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 shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 86cm
  • Geology: New Albany Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/13/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

    indurated

    86 - 91

    91 - 116

    - 5 -

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—76

    86—

    91—

    —20—

    —56—

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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

    2

    —

    —

    246.9

    —

    1336

    —

    172

    12.9

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY0940

    Bradfordsville

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2853; moist when described;
    Bt1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2854; moist when described;
    Bt2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2855; moist when described;
    2BC—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silty clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 15 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2856; moist when described;
    2Cr—86 to 91 centimeters (33.9 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and black (10YR 2/1) interior bedrock; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2R—91 to 116 centimeters (35.8 to 45.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) unweathered bedrock; fragments.; moist when described;