IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cumberland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KY-227-003
  • User Pedon ID: 97KY-227-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KY-227-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47475
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 36.9523010
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3883133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Warren County, KY; approximately 1.5 miles north of the intersection of US Hwy 231 and Cumberland Trace Road; then 0.94 mile east of Cumberland Trace Road on ridge above Drakes Creek.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY227—Warren
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY227—Warren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael J. Mitchell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cumberland
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cumberland
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/9/1997 (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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 4 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3860
    AB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume angular chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3861
    Bt1—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films; light brown (7.5YR 6/4) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent manganese coatings between peds; 15 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3862
    Bt2—64 to 127 centimeters (25.2 to 50.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent manganese coatings; 12 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3863
    2Bt3—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY3864