IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Decatur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-227-010
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-227-010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54KY-227-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-227-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46448
  • 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: 36.9011879
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5280380
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ely Butt's farm; RR2.; Bowling Green; approximately 1 miles SE of US Hwy 68 on KY Hwy 242; W side of farm in maple grove; on gravel road; photo no. and date: KY-SCD-48, CN-3-05(6).
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY227—Warren
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY227—Warren County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36086-H5—Rockfield, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.V. Huffman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Decatur
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Decatur
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from high grade limestone or old alluvium.
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1954 (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

    LESPE

    Acer

    Lespedeza

    maple

    lespedeza

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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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    1.5

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0573
    Bt1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), red (2.5YR 4/8), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0574
    Bt2—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and dark red (10R 3/6), red (10R 4/6), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # KY0575
    Bt3—74 to 163 centimeters (29.1 to 64.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) and dusky red (10R 3/4) clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # KY0576
    Bt4—163 to 213 centimeters (64.2 to 83.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # KY0577