Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the MILLINGTON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of MILLINGTON, 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 MILLINGTON were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
103UMN2819S1979MN091017(2819)Millington3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.7788734,-94.7432556
103UMN2820S1979MN091018(2820)Millington2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.6797104,-94.615097
108B80IL1030141980IL103014Millington1Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties41.8999799,-89.4255521

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the MILLINGTON 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 MILLINGTON 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 MILLINGTON 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 MILLINGTON 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with MILLINGTON 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 MILLINGTON 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 MILLINGTON 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 hills figure.

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

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

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with MILLINGTON, 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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  1. IA-2010-09-02-10 | Emmet County - 1997

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Millington-Spillville-Colo association (Soil Survey of Emmet County, Iowa; 1997).

Map Units

Map units containing MILLINGTON 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
Millington loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded4586774033352y6b7ia02119731:15840
Millington loam, channeled, 0 to 2 percent slopes14581237403463fjtyia02519791:15840
Millington silt loam, channeled, 0 to 2 percent slopes14581536405513flz2ia06319891:15840
Millington loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes458348406231fmq7ia07319831:15840
Millington loam, somewhat poorly drained, 0 to 2 percent slopes4581313409120fqqfia11919731:15840
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A125814071571j785il00720061:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A6214826831lrvhil00720061:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded1082A1014834001lslmil00720061:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A233796068vqcmil01520051:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded1082A157796070vqcpil01520051:12000
Millington clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded7082A11815428531nsggil01520051:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A154127132193b9il08920001:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A132027131993b7il08920001:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A182991323128k5il09120031:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A147317106371vf1vil09320071:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A50517156431vl8bil09320071:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded1082A66778482v42bil09720031:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A9778485v42fil09720031:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A275514278351jxs6il09920061:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded1082A656923931100f7il10320041:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A2460182787646cil11119971:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, undrained, occasionally flooded1082A193618235863rjil11119971:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A504114433817ds4il14120051:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A14771986936nrgil16120021:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded1082A5421986876nr8il16120021:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A15215959771qkr4il17720061:12000
Millington clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded7082A1375793126vm9qil19520031:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded1082A389793103vm8zil19520031:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A482616131np46il19720021:12000
Millington silt loam, undrained, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded1082A261616130np45il19720021:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded8082A192616132np47il19720021:12000
Millington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded3082A23971742135v8sil20119971:12000
Millington clay loam2693139396275f9c2mn01519841:20000
Millington clay loam, sandy substratum18871572396263f9bpmn01519841:20000
Millington clay loam269302397100fb6pmn04319891:20000
Millington clay loam, frequently flooded362656398509fcp4mn06319841:20000
Millington loam, frequently flooded362840399166fdcbmn08519931:20000
Millington clay loam, occasionally flooded269206399160fdc4mn08519931:20000
Millington clay loam, occasionally flooded269509400041ff8kmn09119851:20000
Millington clay loam2692663400585ffv3mn10319901:20000
Millington clay loam, occasionally flooded2693460428936gdbnmn16519871:20000
Millington clay loam, frequently flooded362617428946gdbzmn16519871:20000
Millington silt loamMf1523426342g9mzwi10519701:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MILLINGTON 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 .