Soil Data Explorer - WAITS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the WAITS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of WAITS, 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 WAITS were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the WAITS 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.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the WAITS series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the WAITS series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the WAITS 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 (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with WAITS share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the WAITS series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the WAITS 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 (updated 2023-10-04).

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

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

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with WAITS, 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 (updated 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing WAITS 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
Waits and Krause stony loams, 12 to 40 percent slopes	Wn	9407	144937	4vtd	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits stony silt loam, 7 to 12 percent slopes	Wf	2953	144932	4vt7	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits stony silt loam, 12 to 35 percent slopes	Wg	1805	144933	4vt8	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits cobbly silt loam, fans, 0 to 3 percent slopes	Wa	1013	144927	4vt2	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits stony silt loam, fans, 0 to 7 percent slopes	Wh	897	144934	4vt9	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits and Krause stony loams, 7 to 12 percent slopes	Wm	628	144936	4vtc	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits cobbly silt loam, fans, 3 to 7 percent slopes	Wb	324	144928	4vt3	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits silt loam, fans, 0 to 4 percent slopes	Wd	276	144930	4vt5	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits silt loam, 0 to 7 percent slopes	Wc	224	144929	4vt4	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits and Krause stony loams, 0 to 7 percent slopes	Wk	121	144935	4vtb	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits and Krause stony loams, 12 to 40 percent slopes, lake effect	8E	74	1716049	1vlpf	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits stony silt loam, 0 to 7 percent slopes	We	53	144931	4vt6	mt617	1958	1:20000
Waits-Rock outcrop complex, 40 to 65 percent slopes	245	9213	158218	2v73x	wa065	1978	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 40 to 65 percent slopes	243	7765	158216	2v73v	wa065	1978	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	241	4688	158214	2v73s	wa065	1978	1:24000
Waits-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 40 percent slopes	244	4093	158217	2v73w	wa065	1978	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 25 to 40 percent slopes	242	3681	158215	2v73t	wa065	1978	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 0 to 15 percent slopes	240	2008	158213	2v73r	wa065	1978	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 40 to 65 percent slopes	159	1745	158371	2v73v	wa651	1981	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 25 to 40 percent slopes	158	1368	158370	2v73t	wa651	1981	1:24000
Waits-Rock outcrop complex, 40 to 65 percent slopes	161	1298	158374	2v73x	wa651	1981	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	157	729	158369	2v73s	wa651	1981	1:24000
Waits-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 40 percent slopes	160	487	158373	2v73w	wa651	1981	1:24000
Waits ashy loam, 0 to 15 percent slopes	156	310	158368	2v73r	wa651	1981	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WAITS 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 (updated 2023-10-04).