IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grigsby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85KY-013-002
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY-013-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-013-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46747
  • 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: 36.7120247
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7832260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clear Creek about 6 miles SW of Pineville. KY Coordinates, X: 2,576,350 feet, Y: 143,750 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY013—Bell
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY638—Bell and Harlan Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Karathanasis, Craddock, Robbins, and Childress
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grigsby
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grigsby
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1985 (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
    • 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 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2781
    A—26 to 49 centimeters (10.2 to 19.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY2782
    Bw1—49 to 67 centimeters (19.3 to 26.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2783
    Bw2—67 to 115 centimeters (26.4 to 45.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2784
    C—115 to 140 centimeters (45.3 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY2785