Soil Data Explorer - CHILTON

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CHILTON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CHILTON, 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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 CHILTON 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).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CHILTON, 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 CHILTON 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
Chilton-Teesto-Puertecito families complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes	21	3360	615814	nnsz	az701	2001	1:24000
Pojoaque-Chilton complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes, extremely stony	79	10901	502123	jvhj	co675	1986	1:24000
Pojoaque-Chilton complex, moist, 5 to 30 percent slopes, extremely stony	MC113	124	3170447	k07z	co675	1986	1:24000
Pojoaque-Chilton complex, moist, 5 to 30 percent slopes, extremely stony	113	3391	506694	k07z	co680	1970	1:31680
Chilton channery loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	13	900	496752	jnx8	co683	1977	1:24000
Chilton channery loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes	14	700	496753	jnx9	co683	1977	1:24000
Chilton channery loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes	15	600	496754	jnxb	co683	1977	1:24000
Clovis and scholle soils	Cs	17046	1473900	1lgq5	nm674	1965	1:24000
Chilton-La Fonda complex, 1 to 9 percent slopes	Cl	6269	1473895	1lgq0	nm674	1965	1:24000
Chilton gravelly loam	Cg	4718	1473894	1lgpz	nm674	1965	1:24000
Chilton gravelly loam, 5 to 30 percent slopes	CHF	2950	484726	j8db	ut641	1971	1:24000
Chilton-Begay complex, 1 to 25 percent slopes	18	344	2515011	2qghd	ut685	1990	1:24000
Rock outcrop, Straight Cliffs Formation-Atchee family, steep-Chilton family complex, 50 to 80 percent slopes	5029	38036	59774	2066	ut686	2004	1:24000
Chilton very gravelly-Clapper extremelly stoney complex, 6 to 10 percent slopes -- Draft	526C		2430941	2mllg	wy603		1:24000
Chilton-Clapper complex, 5 to 35 percent slopes, extremely stony	526		2421620	2m8ws	wy603		1:24000
Chilton Variant-Sunup-Spearfish Variant association, 5 to 60 percent slopes	12	1122	158023	59fj	wy650	1982	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CHILTON 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).