Soil Data Explorer - CHANNAHON

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CHANNAHON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CHANNAHON, 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 CHANNAHON were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON 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 CHANNAHON, 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. MN-2012-02-06-02 | Olmsted County - March 1980

   Pattern of soils and underlying material in the Rockton-Channahon-Atkinson association (Soil Survey of Olmsted County, Minnesota; March 1980).

Map Units

Map units containing CHANNAHON 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
Channahon silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	315A	167	1607461	1qypl	il023	2006	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	315A	649	1540913	1nqfw	il063	2005	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes	315B	374	1144016	17dfr	il063	2005	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	315C2	188	1540914	1nqfx	il063	2005	1:12000
Channahon-Hesch fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	817A	114	1547480	1ny8q	il063	2005	1:12000
Channahon-Hesch fine sandy loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes	817B	44	1547481	1ny8r	il063	2005	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	315A	1190	263192	8tw2	il091	2003	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes	315B	761	263193	8tw3	il091	2003	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	315C2	75	988143	1257l	il091	2003	1:12000
Channahon-Hesch fine sandy loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes	817B	1625	1416058	1jjj9	il099	2006	1:12000
Channahon-Hesch fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	817A	1339	1416057	1jjj8	il099	2006	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes	315B	489	263488	8v5m	il099	2006	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	315A	1454	618708	nrtb	il197	2002	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes	315B	922	618709	nrtc	il197	2002	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	315C2	381	618710	nrtd	il197	2002	1:12000
Channahon loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	45A	668	187252	68vd	mi115	1980	1:15840
Channahon-Emeline-Rockton complex, 25 to 50 percent slopes	N575F	1716	1384977	1hh5p	mn039	2005	1:12000
Channahon loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes	472C	7151	400783	fg1h	mn109	1977	1:15840
Channahon loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	472B	5290	400782	fg1g	mn109	1977	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes	472D	869	1677126	1t95v	mn163	1978	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes	472C	553	1677125	1t95t	mn163	1978	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	472B	275	1677124	1t95s	mn163	1978	1:15840
Channahon-Biglick complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes	ChC	62	644377	pmjc	oh063	1997	1:12000
Channahon silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	CnA	1980	169971	5pvy	oh147	1978	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	CnB	1190	169972	5pvz	oh147	1978	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 12 to 30 percent slopes, eroded	CaE2	2910	423266	g6fr	wi021	1972	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	CaC2	1799	423265	g6fq	wi021	1972	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	CaB	869	423264	g6fp	wi021	1972	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	CdB	1236	423557	g6r4	wi027	1976	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	CdC2	753	423558	g6r5	wi027	1976	1:15840
Rock outcrop-Channahon complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes	RcE	643	423638	g6tr	wi027	1976	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes, eroded	CdD2	458	423559	g6r6	wi027	1976	1:15840
Channahon silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	CnB	437	422541	g5pc	wi087	1975	1:15840
Channahon loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	CnB	2411	422849	g609	wi600	1976	1:15840
Channahon loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes	CnC	1476	422850	g60b	wi600	1976	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CHANNAHON 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).