Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
116AM91123261991MO123026MFirebaugh3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.5013885,-90.1527786
116AM91123281991MO123028MFirebaugh3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.4765549,-90.1487503
116AM92123141992MO123014MFirebaugh2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.6150017,-90.1586075
116AM94613341994MO203034MFirebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.0539389,-91.4862472
116AM98613411998MO203041MFirebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.312525,-91.4217889
116AM00179132000MO179013MFirebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.3179222,-91.0390556
116AM05035042005MO035004Firebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties36.8666667,-90.7833333
116CM91123101991MO123010MFirebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.4947777,-90.2984467
116CM94123311994MO123031MFirebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.4431648,-90.3786697
116CM94123341994MO123034MFirebaugh4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.4063873,-90.3013916

Water Balance

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with FIREBAUGH 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 FIREBAUGH 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 FIREBAUGH 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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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 FIREBAUGH, 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. MO-2010-09-08-07 | Madison County - 2005

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Clarksville-Poynor-Firebaugh association (Soil Survey of Madison County, Missouri; 2005).

Map Units

Map units containing FIREBAUGH 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
Firebaugh silt, 3 to 8 percent slopes7314110425016302vxqbmo01720041:24000
Firebaugh silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes73142125016352vxqcmo01720041:24000
Firebaugh silt, 3 to 8 percent slopes73141425016312vxqbmo09319881:24000
Firebaugh silt, 3 to 8 percent slopes73141752825016322vxqbmo12319991:24000
Firebaugh silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes73142128525016362vxqcmo12319991:24000
Firebaugh silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes731422025016372vxqcmo15719831:24000
Firebaugh silt, 3 to 8 percent slopes73141525016332vxqbmo15719831:24000
Firebaugh silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes731421525016382vxqcmo18719791:24000
Firebaugh silt, 3 to 8 percent slopes731414825016342vxqbmo22320041:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FIREBAUGH 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 .