IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KY111011
  • User Pedon ID: 96KY111011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96KY111011
  • User Site Association ID: 6088
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T96KY111-GpD-001
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 61.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KY-111-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47463
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.0886111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7508333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a woodland ridgetop about 1,800 feet south of the intersection of Interstate 265 and State Highway 1020, about 1.75 miles southwest of the intersection of State Highway 1020 and Fairdale Road, about 2.5 miles southwest of the intersection of Fairdale Road and Mitchell Hill Road, about 0.5 miles southeast of the intersection of Mitchell Hill Road and Holsclaw Hill Road to the entrance of the Jefferson County Memorial Forest, about 1,800 feet to a parking lot and picnic shelter, and about 2,000 feet northeast from the northeast end of the parking lot (along a hiking-trail) to a woodland ridgetop (about 200 feet southeast from the Weikert representative profile)
  • Map Unit: GpD—Gilpin silt loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY111—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-A7—Valley Station, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, P. Scott Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 30 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: knob
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered siltstone, unspecified at 79cm
  • Geology: Borden Formation formation of the Mississippian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    QUPR2

    Carya

    Quercus prinus

    hybrid hickory

    chestnut oak

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    79 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    30—58

    79—

    —15—

    —28—

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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

    25

    —

    61

    228

    —

    1128

    —

    202

    13.4

    24.4

    1.5

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    —

    —

    —

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    KY4954

    Louisville WSFO

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3795; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3796; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3797; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3798; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small