IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-015
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46819
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 38.6967163
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5109940
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 3B; about 0.5 mile northeast of the junction of KY-57 and KY-8 at Concord, about 480 feet north of KY-8, about 350 feet north of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad tracks, and 400 feet south of the Ohio River. X: 2,210,000 feet, Y: 435,800 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1990
  • 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: 6/27/1990 (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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3255
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3256
    Bt2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3257
    Bt3—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium columnar parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3258
    Bt4—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3259
    Bt5—130 to 203 centimeters (51.2 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY3260