IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78KY183052
  • User Pedon ID: 78KY183052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-183-052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46667
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.4086944
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9246667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 miles east of Beaver Dam, 2 miles north of McHenry on west side of Miller Road.
  • Map Unit: BfF—Bethesda, Fairpoint, and Morristown soils, 20 to 70 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY183—Ohio
  • 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: KY183—Ohio County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-D8—Hartford, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • 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 - Bethesda
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal coal extraction mine spoil derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Anthropogenic Feature: surface mine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    75

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    137.2

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    1240

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    188

    14.1

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    KY0490

    Beaver Dam

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    C1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) very shaly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 2-51-102 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-12-25 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2244
    C2—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 25-88-152 millimeter coal fragments and 50 percent by volume flat 25-88-152 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2245
    C3—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) shaly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 18 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 22 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2246
    C4—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) very channery silty clay; structureless massive; firm; 40 percent by volume flat 76-114-152 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat 76-114-152 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2247
    C5—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume flat 51-76-102 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat 51-76-102 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # KY2248
    C6—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume flat 51-76-102 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat 51-76-102 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # KY2249