Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the JESSIETOWN soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of JESSIETOWN, 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 JESSIETOWN 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
12190P06601990KY137011Jessietown6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.4824982,-84.6374969
12285KY-155-00283KY155 Jessietown-OSDJessietown4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.4817009,-85.187561
n/a96KY-065-00196KY-065-001Jessietown2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN 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 JESSIETOWN, 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. KY-2010-09-03-29 | Estill and Lee Counties - 2007

    Typical pattern of soils and their relationship to geology and topography in the Jessietown-Rohan-Allegheny-Muse general soil map unit in Estill County (Soil Survey of Estill and Lee Counties, Kentucky; 2007).

  2. KY-2010-09-03-31 | Estill and Lee Counties - 2007

    Typical pattern of soils and their relationship to geology and topography in the Jessietown-Muse-Rohan general soil map unit in Estill County (Soil Survey of Estill and Lee Counties, Kentucky; 2007).

  3. KY-2012-02-01-11 | Marion County - August 1991

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Trappist-Crider-Faywood general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Marion County, Kentucky; August 1991).

  4. KY-2012-02-01-40 | Powell and Wolfe Counties - September 1993

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Jessietown-Muse-Rohan general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky; September 1993).

  5. KY-2012-02-01-42 | Powell and Wolfe Counties - September 1993

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Westbend general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky; September 1993).

Map Units

Map units containing JESSIETOWN 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
Rohan-Jessietown complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes, rockyRptG25352104597200in01920011:12000
Rohan-Jessietown complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes, rockyRptG1522201652dj87in07119851:15840
Rohan-Jessietown complex,25 to 60 percent slopes, rockyRptG26916134501r4xsin07920101:12000
Rohan-Jessietown complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes, rockyRptG2651657645kh7in14319951:12000
Trappist-Jessietown complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedTeC26670552375ljskky15519861:20000
Jessietown-Trappist complex, 2 to 6 percent slopesJeB1620552341ljrgky15519861:20000
Jessietown-Woolper-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 50 percent slopesJwF13453557775lqdrky61620041:24000
Jessietown-Muse-Rohan complex, 20 to 45 percent slopesJoF10761634703p9g9ky61620041:24000
Jessietown silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesJeB1425552963lkdjky61819931:12000
Jessietown silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopesJeC771552964lkdkky61819931:12000
Jessietown-Muse-Rohan complex, 20 to 45 percent slopesJoF10843550838lh5zky63419891:20000
Jessietown silty clay loam, 12 to 30 percent slopes, severely erodedJeD3886550837lh5yky63419891:20000
Jessietown silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesJaB192550836lh5xky63419891:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the JESSIETOWN 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 .