IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allegheny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KY115 Allegheny-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 89KY115 Allegheny-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KY-115-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46804
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.8570023
  • Std. Longitude: -82.7284698
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: at River, on a stream terrace along the western shore of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, 500 feet east of the Jenny Wiley grave site and 100 feet east of Kentucky Highway 581.
  • Map Unit: AbB—Allegheny loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY115—Johnson
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY639—Floyd and Johnson Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-G6—Offutt, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/8/2007 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—107

    —20—

    —87—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    182.9

    —

    1109

    —

    186

    13.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6136

    Paintsville 1 E

    coop
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3174
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 55 percent faint organic stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3175
    Bt2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3176
    Bt3—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct and 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3177
    Bt4—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent and 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3178
    BC1—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3179
    BC2—140 to 183 centimeters (55.1 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3180
    C—183 to 226 centimeters (72.0 to 89.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; faint irregular weakly coherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY3181