IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wharton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81KY-109-006
  • User Pedon ID: 81KY-109-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 81KY-109-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 81KY-109-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46702
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 2.27 miles north of Privett on KY Hwy 587; west 2.46 miles on Travis Creek Road to an abandoned farmstead; thence due west on ridgetop about 1500 feet. X: 5,545,500 feet, Y: 408,800 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY109—Jackson
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY623—Jackson and Owsley Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-D7—Sturgeon, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.A. Hayes, Roy Rice, and Jerry Crews
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Thin bedded sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 191cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    ACRU

    CARYA

    CORNU

    LITU

    NYSY

    OXAR

    PAQU2

    QUAL

    QUST

    QUVE

    SMILA2

    TORAR

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Cornus

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Nyssa sylvatica

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Quercus alba

    Quercus stellata

    Quercus velutina

    Smilax

    Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    dogwood

    tuliptree

    blackgum

    sourwood

    Virginia creeper

    white oak

    post oak

    black oak

    greenbrier

    eastern poison ivy

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    140 - 191

    191 -

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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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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2514
    BA—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1.0 fine tubular and 0.0 coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2515
    Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 medium pores; 10 percent clay films; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2516
    Bt2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 medium and 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2517
    Bt3—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 medium tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2518
    BC—102 to 140 centimeters (40.2 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium prominent and 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate coarse platy parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2519. continuous - phpvsfiid 638098; continuous - phpvsfiid 638098
    Cr—140 to 191 centimeters (55.1 to 75.2 inches); channery silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # KY2520
    R—191 centimeters (75.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2521