IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Helechawa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87KY237 Helechawa-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 87KY237 Helechawa-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 87KY237 Helechawa-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-237-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46780
  • 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: 37.7528076
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6774216
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on wooded south facing side slope between unimproved road and sandstone rock outcrop east of oil and gas wells at the head of Bee Branch; about.5 mile west of the confluence of Bee Branch and the Middle Fork of Red River; 4.5 miles south of the intersection of Kentucky Highways 11 and 15 at Slade.
  • Map Unit: HeF—Helechawa-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 55 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY237—Wolfe
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G6—Slade, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond Hayes and Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Helechawa (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Helechawa
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy colluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Corbin Sandstone Member member of the Grundy Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/6/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    KALA

    SAAL5

    Kalmia latifolia

    Sassafras albidum

    mountain laurel

    sassafras

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—163

    —8—

    —155—
    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

    18

    —

    —

    518.2

    —

    180

    1233

    —

    173

    12.9

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY3741

    Heidelberg

    coop
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2951; moist when described;
    BE—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2952; moist when described;
    Bw1—30 to 69 centimeters (11.8 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint organic stains on surfaces along root channels; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2953; moist when described;
    Bw2—69 to 114 centimeters (27.2 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2954; moist when described;
    BC—114 to 163 centimeters (44.9 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 20 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY2955; moist when described;