Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the HANGTOWN soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of HANGTOWN, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to HANGTOWN were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the HANGTOWN soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the HANGTOWN series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the HANGTOWN series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the HANGTOWN series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records .

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with HANGTOWN share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the HANGTOWN series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the HANGTOWN series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records .

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with HANGTOWN, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database .

Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing HANGTOWN as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name Symbol Map Unit Area (ac) Map Unit Key National Map Unit Symbol Soil Survey Area Publication Date Map Scale
Penstock-Hangtown-Smokey complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes2002209531720352y0fvca60820001:24000
Hangtown-Penstock complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes2001151331720342y0ftca60820001:24000
Hangtown very cobbly sandy loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes2321312487526jc9nca60820001:24000
Hangtown gravelly sandy loam, 30 to 60 percent slopes202561232250512z412ca60820001:24000
Penstock-Hangtown-Smokey complex, 50 to 70 percent slopes200341631720362y0fwca60820001:24000
Hangtown gravelly sandy loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes202429632250502z411ca60820001:24000
Hangtown gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes20239532250492z410ca60820001:24000
Penstock-Hangtown-Smokey complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes2002144431101492y0fvca70819841:24000
Hangtown-Penstock complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes200195031101482y0ftca70819841:24000
Penstock-Hangtown-Smokey complex, 50 to 70 percent slopes200345731101502y0fwca70819841:24000
Hangtown gravelly sandy loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes202439832250362z411ca70819841:24000
Hangtown gravelly sandy loam, 30 to 60 percent slopes202531932250372z412ca70819841:24000
Hangtown gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes2023132250352z410ca70819841:24000
Penstock-Hangtown-Smokey complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes200250532956382y0fvca71319841:24000
Penstock-Hangtown-Smokey complex, 50 to 70 percent slopes200338132956392y0fwca71319841:24000
Hangtown-Penstock complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes200132232956372y0ftca71319841:24000
Hangtown-Lithic Xerumbrepts complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes1313433464881hlr5ca72419851:24000
Hangtown-Smokey complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes132710464882hlr6ca72419851:24000
Hangtown-Smokey complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes133687464883hlr7ca72419851:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the HANGTOWN soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry .