IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY-193-001
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY-193-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 77KY-193-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 77KY-193-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46647
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 300 yards sout of KY Hwy 28; Eversole Creek; 2 miles from Chavies. X: 2,690,000 feet, Y: 373,000 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY193—Perry
  • 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-C4—Buckhorn, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn Kelley
  • 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 - 6/13/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1977 (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

    LOAR10

    TRIFO

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Trifolium

    tall fescue

    clover

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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

    25

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    AC—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2133
    C1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # KY2134
    C2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); channery silty clay loam; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # KY2135
    C3—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # KY2136
    C4—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); channery silty clay loam; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # KY2137