IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY-131-001
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY-131-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 77KY-131-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 77KY-131-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46645
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Ellis Branch; 2500 feet SE of KY Hwy 257; 3.5 miles north of Hyden. X: 2,695,650 feet, Y: 320,000 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY131—Leslie
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY633—Leslie and Perry Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-B3—Hyden East, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone, siltstone, and shale miexed by strip mining
  • Anthropogenic Feature: surface mine
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub 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

    LOAR10

    ROPS

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    tall fescue

    black locust

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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

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2123
    C1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2124
    C2—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2125
    C3—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery clay loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2126
    C4—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) channery clay loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # KY2127