IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-027-001
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-027-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-027-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46805
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.7139194
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4597778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Breckinridge County, KY; 4 miles south of Hardinsburg on Hwy 261, 1.5 miles southeast of Kirk, 700 feet east of the Kirk-Axtel Road, 100 feet south of a tributary of Tules Creek.
  • Map Unit: RsD2—Rosine-Gilpin-Lenberg complex, 12 to 20 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY027—Breckinridge
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY607—Breckinridge and Meade Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-F4—Kingswood, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone residuum on Hardinsburg member
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 74cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    74 -

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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

    25

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    198.1

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    1229

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    184

    12.5

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    156988

    Rough River Lake

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3182
    E—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3183
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3184
    Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3185
    Bt3—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3186
    Cr—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3187