IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jessietown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KY-065-001
  • User Pedon ID: 96KY-065-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KY-065-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47462
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Estill County, KY
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY065—Estill
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY616—Estill and Lee Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jessietown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: indurated shale, acid at 53cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3790
    E—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3791
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3792
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3793. 10 percent shale fragments; extremely acid
    Cr—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3794