Soil Data Explorer - ALAPAHA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ALAPAHA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ALAPAHA, 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 ALAPAHA were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
152A	S07_021	1989-FL013-S07_021	Alapaha	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	30.2769394,-85.3033295
152A	S23_026	1990-FL045-S23_026	Alapaha	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	30.1413898,-85.2986145

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ALAPAHA 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 ALAPAHA series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ALAPAHA 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 ALAPAHA 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 mountains figure.

Competing Series

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

Select annual climate data summaries for the ALAPAHA 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the ALAPAHA 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 2D hillslope position figure.

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.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ALAPAHA, 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 ALAPAHA 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
Ocilla, Alapaha, and Mandarin soils, occasionally flooded	84	166	320790	brt2	fl001	1982	1:15840
Alapaha loamy sand	36	7403	320823	brv4	fl005	1982	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes	67	20632	1481052	1lq4w	fl013	1997	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 2 to 8 percent slopes	70	2312	1481056	1lq50	fl013	1997	1:20000
Alapaha loamy fine sand	3	8594	1472724	1lfh7	fl045	1997	1:24000
Alapaha loamy sand	1	5170	1424911	1jtqw	fl063	1977	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	Ah	26907	324922	2tddz	ga277	1979	1:20000
Alapaha-Urban land complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	An	788	324923	2wz2d	ga277	1979	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	AtA	60020	325184	2tddz	ga608	1965	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand	At	71299	125335	46f2	ga609	1967	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	Ap	102980	325414	2tddz	ga612	1975	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	Ai	95285	325544	2tddz	ga627	1970	1:20000
Alapaha loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	Ah	41357	325576	2tddz	ga631	1978	1:20000
Alapaha-Urban land complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	An	248	325577	2wz2d	ga631	1978	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ALAPAHA 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).