IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KY-057-004
  • User Pedon ID: 89KY-057-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89KY-057-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KY-057-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46791
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 36.7325821
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4524460
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY057—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY057—Cumberland County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36085-F4—Blacks Ferry, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Livingston, A.D. Karathanasis, J. Robbins, Jr., L. Norfleet; P. Gregory, and B. Macneal
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/1989 (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

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-?-10 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3082
    Bt1—25 to 66 centimeters (9.8 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-?-10 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3083
    2Bt2—66 to 100 centimeters (26.0 to 39.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-?-10 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3084
    2Bt3—100 to 138 centimeters (39.4 to 54.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume rounded unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3085
    2Bt4—138 to 190 centimeters (54.3 to 74.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume rounded unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY3086