IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cataloochee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003NC173003
  • User Pedon ID: S2003NC173003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0715
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16276
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 35.4114113
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4915543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: County: Swain Co., North Carolina.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC173—Swain
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Anthony Kheil, Doug Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cataloochee
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cataloochee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Humudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    —

    85 - 110

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—21

    21—57

    85—110

    —21—

    —36—

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    1801

    —

    1483

    —

    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

    —
    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 21.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03431; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 11.0 fine and medium roots and 21.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03431; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—21 to 34 centimeters (8.3 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-163-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03432; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—34 to 57 centimeters (13.4 to 22.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 75 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03432; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—57 to 85 centimeters (22.4 to 33.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; structureless medium angular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 03N03433; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—85 to 110 centimeters (33.5 to 43.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small