IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70KY091006
  • User Pedon ID: 70KY091006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 70KY-091-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46554
  • 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: 37.9906111
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8141667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: Hu—Huntington silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY091—Hancock
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY615—Daviess and Hancock Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-H7—Tell City, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntington
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntington
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    30—203

    —30—

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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

    —

    —

    119.2

    —

    1175

    —

    192

    13.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY6091

    Owensboro 3 W

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1420
    AB—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1421. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347110; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347110
    Bw1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1422. continuous - phpvsfiid 347111; continuous - phpvsfiid 347111
    Bw2—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1423. continuous - phpvsfiid 347112; continuous - phpvsfiid 347112
    Bw3—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1424. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347113; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347113
    Bw4—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine pores; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1425, KY1426. continuous - phpvsfiid 347114; continuous - phpvsfiid 347114
    Bw5—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # KY1427, KY1428. continuous - phpvsfiid 347115; continuous - phpvsfiid 347115