IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-011-004
  • User Pedon ID: 99KY-011-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99KY-011-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-011-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47500
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath County, KY; about 1.4 miles north of Preston in Bath County; about 1 mile E/NE of Kendall Springs; and about 75 feet north of farm on a broad flat ridge top. Parent Material is silty and clayey residuum over New Albany Shale over Bisher Dolomite.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY011—Bath
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY011—Bath County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-A7—Preston, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hines and S. Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Silty and clayey residuum over New Albany Shale over Bisher Dolomite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/11/1999 (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

    MESA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Medicago sativa

    orchardgrass

    alfalfa

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4012
    Bt1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4013
    Bt2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine manganese coatings and 15 percent medium manganese coatings; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4014
    Bt3—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine manganese masses and 30 percent medium manganese coatings; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4015
    Bt4—152 to 234 centimeters (59.8 to 92.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine manganese masses and 15 percent medium manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY4016