IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KY025003
  • User Pedon ID: 04KY025003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04KY025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KY-025-UK3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46351
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 37.4200935
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1828918
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Reclaimed strip mine area - Buckhorn Creek, Robinson Forest
  • Map Unit: FbD—Fairpoint and Bethesda soils, 0 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY025—Breathitt
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY025—Breathitt County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-D2—Noble, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal coal extraction mine spoil derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Breathitt Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) and NASIS Group Name (6-LON London, KY POINT) was transferred to (MLRA12_Amherst) and (NE-LON London, KY POINT) respectively 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: 7/28/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red clover

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—28

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0122; observed in pit, small
    C1—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) very channery loam; structureless massive; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0123; observed in pit, small
    C2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); 60 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very channery loam; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter coal fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0124; observed in pit, small
    C3—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 40 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) extremely channery loam; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter coal fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0125; observed in pit, small
    C4—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) extremely flaggy loam; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 6 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter coal fragments and 7 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0126; observed in pit, small
    C5—130 to 147 centimeters (51.2 to 57.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) extremely flaggy loam; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter coal fragments and 45 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0127; observed in pit, small
    C6—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) extremely flaggy loam; 5 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; very firm; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 380-490-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter coal fragments and 45 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # KY0128; observed in pit, small