IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68KY-107-002
  • User Pedon ID: 2016KY107001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68KY-107-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 68KY-107-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46532
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.3085583
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6794833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: W of 1st gravel road off KY 502 S of Clear Creek; N on next gravel road; 1 mile to big oak tree in curve off road to right; in woods 100 feet N of tree; in center third of Clear Creek flood plain.
  • Map Unit: Co—Collins silt loam
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY107—Hopkins
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY107—Hopkins County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-C6—Coiltown, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.P. Fehr and E.H. Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2015
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Collins
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, acid, thermic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    ACER

    BETUL

    PLATA

    POPUL

    QUERC

    Acer

    Betula

    Platanus

    Populus

    Quercus

    maple

    birch

    sycamore

    cottonwood

    oak

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

    —15—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    115.8

    —

    1222

    —

    190

    14.4

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    KY5067

    Madisonville

    coop
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1278
    C1—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 roots; 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1279
    C2—48 to 89 centimeters (18.9 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint and 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) fine faint mottles; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 roots; 0.0 fine pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1280
    C3—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # KY1281