Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Water Balance

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

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the DILLARD series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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

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Geomorphic description summaries for the DILLARD 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 .

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with DILLARD share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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

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Geomorphic description summaries for the DILLARD 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 .

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with DILLARD, 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 .

Block Diagrams

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  1. NC-2010-09-28-10 | Surry County - 2007

    Relationship of soils, landscape, and geology in the Fairview general soil map unit and the Colvard and Suches general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Surry County, North Carolina; 2007).

Map Units

Map units containing DILLARD 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
Dillard loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely floodedDdB57916116951r335ga01520131:12000
Dillard fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesDaB2690531767kvbsga63719901:20000
Dillard sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesDhC1890531388ktykga65119761:20000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB175216720031t3vlnc02120061:12000
Tusquitee-Whiteside complex, 8 to 15 percent slopesTwC98416721001t3yqnc02120061:12000
Dillard fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely floodedDaB3331168013xjsnc02320001:24000
Dillard fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB11026792202r92jnc02720121:12000
Thurmont-Dillard complex, 8 to 15 percent slopesThC868224231702mbhsnc03920091:12000
Thurmont-Dillard complex, 2 to 8 percent slopesThB524424231692mbhrnc03920091:12000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB118324231112mbfwnc03920091:12000
Dillard loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB665546403lbkxnc04319911:12000
Thurmont-Dillard complex, 2 to 8 percent slopesThB18431912787226dtnc07520071:12000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB3681912746226chnc07520071:12000
Delanco (dillard) loam, 2 to 7 percent slopesDeB3344546851lc1cnc08919741:20000
Delanco (dillard) loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesDeA1704546850lc1bnc08919741:20000
Dillard loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded544B425092872p82wnc08919741:20000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB479547060lc83nc09919911:12000
Dillard loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes, rarely floodedDdB1452547186lcd5nc11119891:24000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB238545822l9z5nc11319901:12000
Tusquitee-Whiteside complex, 8 to 15 percent slopesTwC131016714591t391nc11520061:12000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB14316713431t359nc11520061:12000
Dillard sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes, rarely floodedDdB2311110793ql6nc14919921:24000
Dillard fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB125414275991jxjlnc17120051:24000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDeB110823903742l7cvnc17519681:12000
Dillard loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded544B4625018642q8n0nc17519681:12000
Dillard clay loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB885547835ld23nc19919971:12000
Thurmont-Dillard complex, 2 to 8 percent slopesTdB22319126252267lnc60520071:12000
Dillard loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, rarely floodedDrB139556269lnv5nc60520071:12000
Dillard loam, rarely floodedDi799526527knwrtn09120001:24000
Thurmont-Dillard complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, stonyThB1014145751jgzgtn64020071:24000
Dillard fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes, rarely flooded1B18841359442xx5wva01919851:24000
Dillard silt loam, 2 to 7 percent slopesAlB1555191782yztkva03519651:15840
Dillard loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes, rarely floodedAlB4651197812z1vlva13719661:15840
Dillard loam, 2 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded, rarely floodedAlC23741197822z1vmva13719661:15840
Dillard loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely floodedAlA2321197802z1vkva13719661:15840
Dillard fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded11B155114738151lgmfva14120081:24000
Dillard fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes12C80114738161lgmgva14120081:24000
Dillard-Tugglesgap complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded13B26914742441lh28va14120081:24000
Dillard-Tugglesgap complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes14C4914742451lh29va14120081:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the DILLARD 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 .