IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983KY195012
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY195012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0644
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52881
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 37.4291649
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1816635
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pike County, KY Henroost Fork Feds Creek
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J A Kelley and M Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Umbric Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Umbric Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—132

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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

    55

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    464

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    315

    114

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    025100

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Partly decomposed leaf litter.
    A—4 to 24 centimeters (1.6 to 9.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior channery loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03173
    BA—24 to 38 centimeters (9.4 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03174
    Bw1—38 to 73 centimeters (15.0 to 28.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03175. Most pores and channels have silt coats. Rare thin clay films in isolated pores.
    Bw2—73 to 106 centimeters (28.7 to 41.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03176. Common silt flows in pores and channels.
    Bw3—106 to 136 centimeters (41.7 to 53.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03177. Few silt coats
    C1—136 to 166 centimeters (53.5 to 65.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior very channery loam; firm; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03178. Common silt coatings in pores and channels. Clay cutans in channels. Few fragments of coal.
    C2—166 to 194 centimeters (65.4 to 76.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior very channery loam; firm; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03179. Silt coats in pores. Rare very thin clay films. Few fragments of coal.
    R—194 to 200 centimeters (76.4 to 78.7 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Olive siltstone.