IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-002
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46811
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 38.5192184
  • Std. Longitude: -83.2676544
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 27B; about 2.3 miles southeast of the confluence of Town Branch and Kinniconick Creek near Tannery Church, about 2 miles west of the bridge across Mill Branch on Kinniconick Road, about 500 feet north of Mill Branch on the south facing sideslope; x: 2,280,600 feet, y: 377,900 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownsville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownsville
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvial material from siltstone, shale, and sandstone of the Borden Formation, Mississippian Geologic System
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/11/1990 (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

    CARYA

    LITU

    QUAL

    QUCO2

    Carya

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus alba

    Quercus coccinea

    hybrid hickory

    tuliptree

    white oak

    scarlet oak

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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

    45

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 50 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3206
    Bw1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3207
    Bw2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 50 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3208
    Bw3—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3209
    Bw4—69 to 109 centimeters (27.2 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # KY3210