IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allegheny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000TN009010
  • User Pedon ID: S2000TN009010C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12943
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 35.5960900
  • Std. Longitude: -83.8348900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cades Cove
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN009—Blount
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35083-E7—Cades Cove, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - annual grass
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - annual grass
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—183

    —20—

    —163—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    513

    —

    1483

    —

    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00216; moist when described; observed in pit, small. F-1 Mn stains
    Bt11—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; 3 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00217; moist when described; observed in pit, small. C-1 Mn stains; many filled root channels and casts; this sample was split.
    Bt12—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; 3 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00218; moist when described; observed in pit, small. many filled root channels and casts; c-1 Mn stains; this sample was split.
    Bt2—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00219; moist when described; observed in pit, small. C-1 Mn stains.
    Bt3—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified. Lab sample # 01P00220; moist when described; observed in pit, small. C-1 Mn stains.