IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78KY-121-010
  • User Pedon ID: 78KY-121-010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 78KY-121-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-121-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46663
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 800 feet NE of Pentecostal Children's Home; 2.5 miles NE of Barbourville on KY Hwy 1304. X: 2,557,150 feet, Y: 201,400 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY121—Knox
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY627—Knox and Eastern Part of Whitley Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36083-G7—Artemus, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn Kelley, Roy Rice, Hank Bailey, and Bob Somers
  • 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 - 6/14/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Strip mine spoil, Blue Gem seam
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1978 (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

    ROPS

    TRIFO

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Trifolium

    black locust

    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

    30

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    AC—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2232
    C1—30 to 81 centimeters (11.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2233
    C2—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY2234