Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Select annual climate data summaries for the HOULIHAN 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).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the HOULIHAN 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with HOULIHAN 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).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the HOULIHAN 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).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the HOULIHAN 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).

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with HOULIHAN, 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

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Map Units

Map units containing HOULIHAN 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
Parkcity-Houlihan-Skaggs families, complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes92413131732742slt4id71220081:24000
Parkcity-Houlihan-Skaggs families, complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes924664527335082slt4id7131:24000
Houlihan family-Broad Canyon, very stony surface-Lucky Star family, very stony surface, complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes1001265628994312w1flid7131:24000
Parkcity-Houlihan-Skaggs families, complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes924130931634712slt4id7161:24000
Houlihan-Bullrey complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes4E24524962952p9sjid75819981:24000
Houlihan-Bullrey complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes4E134126114692p9sjid76120181:24000
Tiban, stony-Houlihan complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes726E12526114642pbblid76120181:24000
Levengood-Slagamelt-Houlihan families, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes1112D9229952472qc01mt02719791:24000
Levengood-Slagamelt-Houlihan families, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes1112D2930396832qc01mt60219631:20000
Philipsburg-Tiban-Houlihan complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes40E2956609141nfvqmt60420011:24000
Sebud-Houlihan complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes950D52025980022p8t2mt60520071:24000
Sebud-Bullrey-Houlihan complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes950F46725980032p8t3mt60520071:24000
Libeg, very stony-Tiban, extremely stony-Houlihan complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes104F13224962852mfv2mt60520071:24000
Ratiopeak-Leavitt-Houlihan complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes917D2425980182ppb8mt60520071:24000
Libeg, very stony-Tiban, extremely stony-Houlihan complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes104F853524263722mfv2mt61220111:24000
Foolhen, frequently flooded-Cowcamp-Houlihan complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes109B80718826492161mmt61220111:24000
Fleecer-Houlihan complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes, stony59E64916902651tqvpmt61220111:24000
Tiban, stony-Houlihan complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes726E43824825912pbblmt61220111:24000
Monaberg-Houlihan complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes9110E26324200352m77nmt61220111:24000
Sebud-Houlihan complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes950D633824811182p8t2mt61420121:24000
Sebud-Bullrey-Houlihan complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes950F507724811192p8t3mt61420121:24000
Philipsburg-Tiban-Houlihan complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes40E15142520826nfvqmt61420121:24000
Libeg, very stony-Tiban, extremely stony-Houlihan complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes104F45131628312mfv2mt61420121:24000
Ratiopeak-Leavitt-Houlihan complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes917D44025187252ppb8mt61420121:24000
Foolhen, frequently flooded-Cowcamp-Houlihan complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes109B8025208392161mmt61420121:24000
Bridger-Houlihan-Bynum complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes543E257424934242pqd8mt62420211:24000
Houlihan-Timberlin-Tuggle complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes524F106824878142phs2mt62420211:24000
Philipsburg-Houlihan complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes501C42017145191vk32mt62420211:24000
Levengood-Slagamelt-Houlihan families, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes1112D10930940962qc01mt63019911:24000
Libeg, very bouldery-Houlihan, bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes365F167524862572pg4vmt6321:24000
Levengood-Slagamelt-Houlihan families, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes1112D47526322702qc01mt6321:24000
Philipsburg-Tiban-Adel complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes2406971466074xk8mt63619831:24000
Sebud-Bullrey-Houlihan complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes950F47825370442p8t3mt63619831:24000
Sebud-Houlihan complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes950D36525370432p8t2mt63619831:24000
Duckcreek-Houlihan-Nieman, stony complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes340E15090637790pdnwmt63720141:24000
Houlihan-Duckcreek complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes340D488623837822l0j6mt63720141:24000
Libeg, very bouldery-Houlihan, bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes365F3201638586pfhkmt63720141:24000
Philipsburg-Houlihan complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes501C22626946381vk32mt63920001:24000
Bridger-Houlihan-Bynum complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes543E2433124592pqd8mt63920001:24000
Levengood-Slagamelt-Houlihan families, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes1112D6329952602qc01mt66620081:24000
Duckcreek-Roxal-Adel complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes340E1724814022p937mt6691:24000
Parkcity-Houlihan-Skaggs families, complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes92416530834792slt4wy62319711:20000
Houlihan-Wrenman complex, 7 to 30 percent slopes507185924379922mtxxwy6301:24000
Houlihan-Session complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes71361365324863162pg6rwy7231:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the HOULIHAN 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).