IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allegheny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-197-002
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-197-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY-197-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-197-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46741
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 0.4 mile NW of Clay City; across Red River, northeast on River Road, about 1 mile to end of road. X: 2,537,600 feet, Y: 555,500 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY197—Powell
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G8—Clay City, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hayes and Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • PSC - 69 to 114 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    NICOT

    Nicotiana

    tobacco

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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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam, silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2745
    A—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam, silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2746
    BE—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2747
    Bt1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2748. patchy - phpvsfiid 635449; patchy - phpvsfiid 635449
    Bt2—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2749. patchy - phpvsfiid 635450; patchy - phpvsfiid 635450
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # KY2750