IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 98KY111004

User Pedon ID: 98KY111004

Vegetation Plot ID: 98KY111004

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - UK

Lab Pedon # - 98KY-111-001

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47491

Print Date: 11/21/2024

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: 38.0850000

Std. Longitude: -85.7905556

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: on a woodland footslope about 1,800 feet south of the intersection of Interstate 265 and State Highway 1020, about 1.75 miles southwest of the intersection of State Highway 1020 and Fairdale Road, about 2.5 miles southwest of the intersection of Fairdale Road and Mitchell Hill Road, about 0.5 miles southeast of the intersection of Mitchell Hill Road and Holsclaw Hill Road to the entrance of the Jefferson County Memorial Forest, about 1,800 feet to a parking lot and picnic shelter, and about 300 feet northeast from the northeast end side of the parking lot to a woodland footslope

Map Unit: TjD—Tilsit silt loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes

Country: US—United States

State: Kentucky

County: KY111—Jefferson

MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal

Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV

MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-A7—Valley Station, Kentucky

PEDON

Describers Name: Steve Blanford, P. Scott Aldridge

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: TUD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Tilsit

PSC - 28 to 78 cm.

Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Zanesville

Classificaton Date - 8/12/1998

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: fine-silty colluvium

Landscape: upland

Landform: knob

Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope

Hill Slope Profile: footslope

Slope Position: lower third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Runoff: medium

Drainage Class: moderately well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Geology: Borden Formation formation of the Mississippian group.

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/12/1998 (actual site observation date)

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods

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
ACRU ACSA3 QUAL QUPR2	Acer rubrum Acer saccharum Quercus alba Quercus prinus	red maple sugar maple white oak chestnut oak	— — — —	— — — —	— — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
fragipan	noncoherent	81 - 152	- 71 -

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon aquic conditions fragipan	0—13 28—152 66—216 81—152	—13— —124— —150— —71—

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
15	—	—	176	—		1128	—	202	13.4	24.4	1.5	—	—	—	—	—	KY4954	Louisville WSFO	coop

A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3942; moist when described; observed in pit, small

BE—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3943; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bt1—28 to 66 centimeters (11.0 to 26.0 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3944; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bt2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 55 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3945; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Btx1—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 55 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3946; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Btx2—102 to 135 centimeters (40.2 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3947; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Btx3—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 10 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3948; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Cg—152 to 193 centimeters (59.8 to 76.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

C—193 to 216 centimeters (76.0 to 85.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; firm; 5 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 25 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in pit, small