IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chavies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-013
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46817
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 38.6939354
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5568314
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 3A; about 3.1 miles west of the intersection of KY-57 and KY-8 at Concord, about 1,800 feet north of KY-8, about 250 feet north of Chesapeake and Ohio railroad tracks and about 30 feet west of farm road. X: 2,194,000 feet, Y: 434,850 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chavies
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chavies
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mixed alluvium of the Ohio River flood-plain, Quaternary system
  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/1990 (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

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine granular, and structureless single grain; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3244
    Bt1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3245
    Bt2—56 to 124 centimeters (22.0 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3246
    Bt3—124 to 137 centimeters (48.8 to 53.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky, and structureless single grain; very friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3247
    C—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; structureless single grain; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY3248