IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-001-001
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-001-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54KY-001-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-001-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46435
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Mrs. Dollie Streeval farm; Christine, KY; 0.3 mile NE of junction of KY Hwys 206 and 531; 7 miles N of Columbia on Hwy 206.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY001—Adair
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY001—Adair County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.V. Huffman (SCS)
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, thermic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • PSC - 58 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent chert at 114cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/1954 (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

    LESPE

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

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    58 - 114

    114 -

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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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0498
    E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0499
    BE—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume angular 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0500
    Btx1—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-10 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0501
    Btx2—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); silt loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0502
    Cr—114 centimeters (44.9 inches); bedrock; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # KY0503