Soil Data Explorer - HILIGHT

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the HILIGHT soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of HILIGHT, 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 HILIGHT were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
58B	91P0199	91WY005001	Hilight	5	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.7416649,-105.1197205

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT 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 HILIGHT, 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 HILIGHT 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
Hilight-Savageton clays, 6 to 15 percent slopes	143	40586	349600	2tvvf	wy027	1993	1:24000
Hilight-Rock outcrop complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes	142	30193	349598	cqsc	wy027	1993	1:24000
Grummit-Hilight-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	132	7676	349578	cqrq	wy027	1993	1:24000
Grummit-Hilight clays, 6 to 15 percent slopes	131	2520	349576	cqrn	wy027	1993	1:24000
Renohill-like-Spyglass-like-Hilight complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	5333		3356670	2ynm3	wy043	1976	1:24000
Chipendale-like-Hilight-Cielito-like complex, 5 to 50 percent slopes	5D34		3356704	30zss	wy043	1976	1:24000
Hilight-Wags-Badland complex, 3 to 45 percent slopes	139	6238	361696	2v08w	wy045	1984	1:24000
Hilight clay loam, 3 to 30 percent slopes	51	2787	349456	cqms	wy045	1984	1:24000
Hilight-Savageton clays, 6 to 15 percent slopes	157	249	1614842	2tvvf	wy045	1984	1:24000
Hilight-Wags-Badland complex, 3 to 45 percent slopes	163	80864	349854	2v08w	wy605	1995	1:24000
Hilight-Taluce, cool-Wags complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes	161	5187	349852	cr1k	wy605	1995	1:24000
Chipendale-like-Hilight-Cielito-like complex, 5 to 50 percent slopes	5D34		3358260	30zss	wy617		1:24000
Badland-Shingle-Hilight complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	5462		3302886	2ypp0	wy617		1:24000
Renohill-like-Spyglass-like-Hilight complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	5333		3358285	2ynm3	wy617		1:24000
Hilight-Lonebear-like-Renohill complex, 4 to 20 percent slopes	5328		3133237	2ynlw	wy629		1:24000
Badland-Shingle-Hilight complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	5462		3136863	2ypp0	wy629		1:24000
Renohill-Hilight-Pultney complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes	5429		3133246	2ynm5	wy629		1:24000
Renohill-like-Spyglass-like-Hilight complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	5333		3133244	2ynm3	wy629		1:24000
Razsun-like-Hilight complex, 20 to 55 percent slopes	5466		3133238	2ynlx	wy629		1:24000
Samday-Gayhart-Hilight clay loams, moist, 2 to 60 percent slopes	244	9763	360586	d36t	wy633	1987	1:24000
Hilight-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes	168	4766	361151	d3t1	wy633	1987	1:24000
Samday-Hilight clay loams, 2 to 45 percent slopes	245	1119	360585	d36s	wy633	1987	1:24000
Hilight-Wags-Badland complex, 3 to 45 percent slopes	206	2704	361279	2v08w	wy709	1983	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the HILIGHT 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).