IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91KY-153-007
  • User Pedon ID: 91KY-153-007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 91KY-153-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 91KY-153-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46825
  • 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: 37.6636750
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0255889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Salyersville south topographic quandrant; 2500 feet south west of the Howard-Shepard cemetery; 25 feet west of unimproved road connecting KY highway 1635 in Oakley Creek with KY Highway 7 on the Licking River; 0.9 miles sout west of Royalton. X:2,788,500; Y:495,700.
  • Map Unit: KfF—Kimper-Fedscreek complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY153—Magoffin
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY641—Magoffin and Morgan Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-F1—Salyersville South, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JDM & PSA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium of Pennsylvanian upper and middle Breathitt sandstones, shales, and siltstones
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1991 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    tuliptree

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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

    40

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    332.5

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    60

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3289
    BA—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3290
    Bw1—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3291
    Bw2—64 to 107 centimeters (25.2 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3292
    Bw3—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3293
    BC—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3294