Soil Data Explorer - FEATHERLEGS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the FEATHERLEGS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of FEATHERLEGS, 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS 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 FEATHERLEGS, 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 FEATHERLEGS 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
Featherlegs, very stony-Motoqua families-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes	1	12365	512361	k64s	ut646		1:24000
Featherlegs, very stony-Motoqua families-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes	2	4432	512360	k64r	ut646		1:24000
Brownrigg-Featherlegs-Wolf complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	110	1208	349533	cqq8	wy027	1993	1:24000
Featherlegs-Wolf-Brownrigg complex, 3 to 10 percent slopes	125	533	349563	cqr7	wy027	1993	1:24000
Featherlegs-Wolf loams, 6 to 10 percent slopes	124	141	349561	cqr5	wy027	1993	1:24000
Featherlegs-Wolf loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	123	100	349559	cqr3	wy027	1993	1:24000
Brown-Featherlegs-Recluse complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	119	54483	104472	3hq2	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs-Recluse loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes	155	29719	104510	3hr9	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs-Greenhope-Curabith fine sandy loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes	152	25891	104507	3hr6	wy031	1998	1:24000
Greenhope-Featherlegs complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	167	15365	104522	3hrp	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs-Curabith fine sandy loams, 0 to 3 percent slopes	151	8903	104506	3hr5	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs-Recluse loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes	154	4103	104509	3hr8	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs-Recluse loams, 0 to 3 percent slopes	153	2144	104508	3hr7	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs-Bayard fine sandy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	150	1410	104505	3hr4	wy031	1998	1:24000
Featherlegs fine sandy loam, wet, 0 to 3 percent slopes	149	617	104503	3hr2	wy031	1998	1:24000
Brown-Featherlegs-Recluse complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	246	12	1587997	1q9fq	wy601	1991	1:24000
Brown-Featherlegs-Recluse complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	115	3523	1669663	1t1f3	wy609	2006	1:24000
Featherlegs-Recluse loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes	146	1798	1669684	1t1fs	wy609	2006	1:24000
Treoff-Featherlegs complex, 10 to 55 percent slopes, extremely stony	710	7	2383669	20b31	wy633	1987	1:24000
Brownrigg-Featherlegs-Wolf complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	4E	17096	104892	3j4m	wy715	1974	1:20000
Featherlegs-Wolf loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	11B	16268	104849	3j37	wy715	1974	1:20000
Featherlegs-Wolf-Brownrigg complex, 3 to 10 percent slopes	12C	8178	104851	3j39	wy715	1974	1:20000
Featherlegs-Wolf loams, 6 to 10 percent slopes	11C	1964	104850	3j38	wy715	1974	1:20000
Brown-Featherlegs-Recluse complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	40	1357	1414810	1jh71	wy715	1974	1:20000
Featherlegs-Recluse loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes	54	140	1414823	1jh7g	wy715	1974	1:20000
Featherlegs-Bayard fine sandy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	43	49	1414813	1jh74	wy715	1974	1:20000
Treoff-Featherlegs complex, 10 to 55 percent slopes, extremely stony	710	3769	1856746	20b31	wy719	2013	1:24000
Featherlegs-Naturita-Willowman complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	702	2334	1856744	20b2z	wy719	2013	1:24000
Featherlegs, extremely stony-Moskee sandy loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	703	2098	1856745	20b30	wy719	2013	1:24000
Featherlegs, extremely stony-Moskee sandy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	712	1163	1868149	20pyw	wy719	2013	1:24000
Featherlegs fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	628	624	1868137	20pyh	wy719	2013	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FEATHERLEGS 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).