LOCATION KINGSVILLE OH+MI WI

Established Series
Rev. STP-JRS
05/2011

KINGSVILLE SERIES

The Kingsville series consists of very deep, very poorly drained soils formed in glaciolacustrine sediments on Wisconsinan age lake plains. Permeability is rapid. Slope ranges from 0 to 2 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 34 inches, and mean annual temperature is about 51 degrees F.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Mollic Psammaquents

TYPICAL PEDON: Kingsville loamy fine sand, on a concave flat in grass and shrubs at an elevation of about 660 feet above msl. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.)

Ap -- 0 to 8 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed and unrubbed loamy fine sand, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) dry; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; common very fine and fine roots; common medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) masses of iron accumulation lining root channels; 1 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (5 to 9 inches thick.)

Bg1 -- 8 to 16 inches; gray (10YR 5/1) fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few very fine roots; common distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organic coats lining worm channels; few medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix, and common fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron accumulations lining root channels; neutral; clear wavy boundary.

Bg2 -- 16 to 30 inches; dark gray (5Y 4/1) sand stratified with loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few very fine roots; few fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; 1 percent rock fragments; neutral; clear wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bg horizons is 10 to 32 inches.)

C1 -- 30 to 55 inches; olive gray (5Y 4/2) sand stratified with loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; common medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; 2 percent rock fragments; slightly alkaline; clear wavy boundary.

C2 -- 55 to 80 inches; dark gray (5Y 4/1) sand stratified with loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; common coarse prominent brown (10YR 5/3) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; 6 percent rock fragments; slightly alkaline.

TYPE LOCATION: Ashtabula County, Ohio; about 1.5 miles northwest of Kingsville, in Kingsville Township, 1,200 feet north of the intersection of State Route 193 and U.S. Route 20 along Route 193, then 500 feet east. T. 13 N., R. 2 W.; USGS North Kingsville, OH topographic quadrangle; Latitude 41 degrees, 54 minutes, 33 seconds N. and Longitude 80 degrees, 41 minutes, 25 seconds W., NAD 1927.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 20 to 40 inches. Thickness of the dark surface ranges from 5 to 9 inches, mixed surface to 7 inches must make mollic colors. Rock fragments range from 0 to 5 percent in the solum and 0 to 10 percent in the substratum. Unconforming gravely layers up to 4 inches thick may occur within the solum. Depth to carbonates ranges from 50 to greater than 80 inches.

The A or Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or is neutral, value of 2 or 3 (3 to 5 dry), and chroma of 0 to 2. Texture commonly is loamy fine sand, fine sand, sand or loamy sand, and less commonly fine sandy loam, mucky loamy fine sand, mucky sand or mucky fine sand. Structure is weak or moderate, fine to coarse, granular. Reaction is very strongly acid to moderately acid.

The Bg horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, 5Y or is neutral, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 0 to 2. The chroma ranges to 3 if hue is 2.5Y, 5Y or neutral. Texture is loamy fine sand, fine sand, loamy sand, sand or is stratified. Structure is weak or moderate, fine to medium, subangular blocky or granular. Reaction is very strongly acid to neutral.

The Cg horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, 5Y or is neutral, value of 4 to 7, and chroma of 0 to 2. Texture is loamy fine sand to loamy coarse sand, fine sand, sand or is stratified. Reaction is moderately acid to slightly alkaline.

COMPETING SERIES: These are the Glendora, Kanza, Marlake, Pay, Plev, Tobico, and Vestaburg soils. Glendora soils formed in alluvium and have an irregular decrease in organic carbon in the series control section. Kanza and Plev soils have a higher mean annual temperatures. Marlake and Tobico soils typically have carbonates at a depth of 0 to 15 inches. Pay soils average 15 to 45 percent gravel in the substratum and have mean annual temperatures ranging from 45 to 48 degrees F. Vestaburg soils have carbonates within a depth of 20 to 40 inches.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Kingsville soils formed in glaciolacustrine sediments and are on concave flats and depressions on deltas and offshore bars on Wisconsinan age lake plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 2 percent. Mean annual precipitation is 29 to 39 inches, and mean annual temperature is 49 to 52 degrees F. The frost free period is 160 to 198 days, and elevation ranges from 570 to 680 feet above msl.

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Colonie, Elnora, Harbor, Otisville, Painesville, Stafford and Tyner soils. The well drained Colonie, moderately well drained Elnora and somewhat poorly drained Stafford soils are in a drainage sequence with Kingsville soils. Harbor soils are moderately well drained and are on higher landscape positions. The excessively drained Otisville soils and the somewhat excessively drained Tyner soils are on adjacent beach ridges. Painesville soils are somewhat poorly drained and are on higher landscape positions.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Very poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff is negligible to very low. Frequent brief ponding occurs during periods of heavy rainfall and during spring snowmelt. Permeability is rapid. Depth to an intermittent apparent seasonal high water table is +1.0 to 0.0 foot from October to June in most years.

USE AND VEGETATION: Use is dominantly woodland and former cropland reverting to woodland, and a small amount is used for cropland, pasture and nurseries. Native vegetation consisted of swamp forest, chiefly elm, ash, red maple, pin oak, swamp white oak, yellow birch, and tulip poplar.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: In northeastern Ohio, and till plains in Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. MLRA's 95A, 97, 98 and 99. Kingsville soils are of large extent; about 136,000 acres.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts.

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Ashtabula County, Ohio, 1970.

REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in
this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - from a depth of 0 to 8 inches (Ap horizon). (Too thin to qualify as mollic.)
Aquic conditions - from a depth of 0 to 80 inches.
Udic moisture regime.
A new typifying pedon for the Kingsville series was correlated during the modernization of the Ashtabula County Soil Survey.
It is anticipated that soils correlated as Kingsville in MLRA's other than MLRA 100 will be correlated as a new series in future modernization projects.

ADDITIONAL DATA: Refer to pedon AB-126 for characterization data on the typical pedon, sample numbers 26841 - 26850, and pedon AB-115, sample numbers 12710 - 12718, from Ashtabula County, Ohio; to pedon LK-6, sample numbers 19004 - 19006, from Lake County, Ohio. Samples analyzed by the Ohio State University Soil Characterization Laboratory, Columbus, Ohio.

National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.