IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Craigsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85KY-095-002
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY-095-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 85KY-095-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-095-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46756
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.8706322
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4323807
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Straight Creek about 7 miles West of Harlan. KY coord.: X: 2,675,300 feet, Y: 240,000.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY095—Harlan
  • 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: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Fluventic eutrude Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Craigsville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Craigsville
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1985
  • 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: 8/28/1985 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRRE3

    Trifolium repens

    white 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

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    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2843
    Bw—21 to 42 centimeters (8.3 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings around rock fragments; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2844
    CB—42 to 69 centimeters (16.5 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) extremely gravelly loamy sand; structureless massive, and weak fine granular; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings around rock fragments; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2845
    C—69 to 101 centimeters (27.2 to 39.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly loamy sand; structureless massive; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings around rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # KY2846