Soil Data Explorer - ARIKARA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ARIKARA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ARIKARA, 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 ARIKARA 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
54	78ND025007	78ND025007	Arikara	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	47.6516667,-102.4988889
54	78ND025008	78ND025008	Arikara	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	47.6552778,-102.5208333
54	06N0407	S2005ND025002	Arikara	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	47.5495834,-102.8119965

Water Balance

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ARIKARA 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 ARIKARA 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 ARIKARA 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ARIKARA, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. ND-2010-09-27-02 | Billings County - 2005

   Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Patent-Badland, outcrop-Cabbart association (Soil Survey of Billings County, North Dakota; 2005).

Map Units

Map units containing ARIKARA 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
Badland-Arikara-Cabbart complex, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3191F	41810	2707062	2q1x9	nd007	1998	1:24000
Boxwell-Cabbart-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2633F	17036	2707049	2q1xp	nd007	1998	1:24000
Lonna-Arikara-Cabbart complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2631F	10130	2707048	2qxkn	nd007	1998	1:24000
Maltese-Lonna-Arikara complex, 2 to 50 percent slopes	L2321F	5089	2707045	2qxkd	nd007	1998	1:24000
Kirby-Arikara-Badland complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L3104F	4391	2707057	2q2mz	nd007	1998	1:24000
Rhame-Arikara-Fleak complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L1661F	4154	2707040	2qxhw	nd007	1998	1:24000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	1162	2699062	1vztv	nd007	1998	1:24000
Shibah-Rubble land-Arikara complex, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L4506F	417	2707082	2qxjs	nd007	1998	1:24000
Arikara-Cabbart loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3199F	10	2758440	2q1wy	nd007	1998	1:24000
Badland-Arikara-Cabbart complex, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3191F	119620	2707125	2q1x9	nd025	1981	1:20000
Rhame-Arikara-Fleak complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L1661F	14792	2707143	2qxhw	nd025	1981	1:20000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	9912	1714645	1vztv	nd025	1981	1:20000
Cabba-Badland-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E3103F	7850	2707218	2qz6w	nd025	1981	1:20000
Arikara-Cabbart loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3199F	3685	2707124	2q1wy	nd025	1981	1:20000
Arikara-Cabba loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	E3199F	1156	2707223	d1y4	nd025	1981	1:20000
Zahl-Williams-Arikara loams, 9 to 45 percent slopes	E3569F	395	2758488	d1xz	nd025	1981	1:20000
Vebar-Arikara-Flasher complex, 9 to 50 percent slopes	E1661F	121	2758473	1vzt0	nd025	1981	1:20000
Boxwell-Cabbart-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2633F	28	2758496	2q1xp	nd025	1981	1:20000
Zahl-Cabba-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E3607F	12	2758489	cvsw	nd025	1981	1:20000
Badland-Arikara-Cabbart complex, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3191F	3544	2759770	2q1x9	nd033	1985	1:24000
Arikara-Cabbart loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3199F	188	2759773	2q1wy	nd033	1985	1:24000
Lonna-Arikara-Cabbart complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2631F	155	2759762	2qxkn	nd033	1985	1:24000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	61	2759741	1vztv	nd033	1985	1:24000
Boxwell-Cabbart-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2633F	20	2759763	2q1xp	nd033	1985	1:24000
Shibah-Rubble land-Arikara complex, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L4506F	13	2759777	2qxjs	nd033	1985	1:24000
Badland-Arikara-Cabbart complex, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3191F	80198	2715126	2q1x9	nd053	2003	1:24000
Boxwell-Cabbart-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2633F	34768	2715129	2q1xp	nd053	2003	1:24000
Zahl-Cabba-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E3607F	34262	2715120	cvsw	nd053	2003	1:24000
Rhame-Arikara-Fleak complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L1661F	19226	2715145	2qxhw	nd053	2003	1:24000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	18436	2715079	1vztv	nd053	2003	1:24000
Cabba-Badland-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E3103F	9076	2715092	2qz6w	nd053	2003	1:24000
Maltese-Lonna-Arikara complex, 2 to 50 percent slopes	L2321F	3646	2715148	2qxkd	nd053	2003	1:24000
Kirby-Arikara-Badland complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L3104F	3362	2715135	2q2mz	nd053	2003	1:24000
Vebar-Arikara-Flasher complex, 9 to 50 percent slopes	E1661F	3091	2715061	1vzt0	nd053	2003	1:24000
Arikara-Cabbart loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	L3199F	2324	2715125	2q1wy	nd053	2003	1:24000
Zahl-Williams-Arikara loams, 9 to 45 percent slopes	E3569F	2311	2715118	d1xz	nd053	2003	1:24000
Arikara-Cabba loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	E3199F	598	2715097	d1y4	nd053	2003	1:24000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	8064	1718355	1vztv	nd059	1998	1:20000
Vebar-Arikara-Flasher complex, 9 to 50 percent slopes	E1661F	2407	1718347	1vzt0	nd059	1998	1:20000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	33894	2662519	1vztv	nd061	1988	1:24000
Boxwell-Cabbart-Arikara complex, 9 to 70 percent slopes	L2633F	217	2758534	2q1xp	nd087	1974	1:20000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	23568	1713531	1vztv	nd089	1965	1:20000
Vebar-Arikara-Flasher complex, 9 to 50 percent slopes	E1661F	3303	1713505	1vzt0	nd089	1965	1:20000
Arikara-Cabba loams, 15 to 70 percent slopes	E3199F	70	2715998	d1y4	nd089	1965	1:20000
Arikara-Shambo-Cabba loams, 9 to 70 percent slopes	E2725F	31	2662568	1vztv	nd105	1993	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ARIKARA 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).