Fedscreek soil series

Landscape: hills and mountains in Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

Landform: hillslope, mountain side,

Geomorphic Component: benches, side slope, base slopes

Hillslope Profile Position: back slope, footslope and toeslopes

Parent Material Origin: sandstone and siltstone

Parent Material Kind: Colluvium

Slope: 8 to 90 percent

Elevation: 183 to 1219 meters, 600 to 4000 feet

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Forestry

Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--Less sloping areas are used for pasture and as sites for houses or gardens. Where wooded--are in secondary growth hardwood forest with mixed stands of white oak, American beech, mockernut hickory, pignut hickory, black oak, sugar maple, sassafras, red maple, chestnut oak, Virginia pine, and flowering dogwood.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Allegheny-Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky with possible similar areas in West Virginia, Virginia, and eastern Tennessee

Extent: Large, approximately 200,000 acres.

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/F/FEDSCREEK.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#fedscreek

 

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