Soil Data Explorer - JESTER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the JESTER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of JESTER, 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 JESTER were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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
78C	93P0405	92OK151003	JESTER	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	36.5169449,-98.8413925

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the JESTER 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 JESTER series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the JESTER 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 JESTER 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).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with JESTER share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the JESTER 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 JESTER 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 3D hills figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with JESTER, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. TX-2010-11-03-50 | King County - 2007

   Typical pattern of the Grandfield-Shrewder-Devol and Delwin-Nobscot general soil map units (Soil Survey of King County, Texas; 2007).

Map Units

Map units containing JESTER 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
Jester loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	JstC	716	3101275	2txyq	ok007	2021	1:24000
Jester sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	JssE	641	3203432	2zc16	ok007	2021	1:24000
Jester and Tivoli soils, 1 to 30 percent slopes	57	6520	381696	dt5s	ok009	1978	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	JesC	1908	648169	prgp	ok055	2005	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 5 to 20 percent slopes	JesF	2274	975494	11r2k	ok057	1982	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	36	1273	975469	11r1r	ok057	1982	1:24000
Jester loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	JstC	11579	382996	2txyq	ok059	1998	1:24000
Jester sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	JssF	7805	382997	dvjr	ok059	1998	1:24000
Lincoln-Jester complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes, rarely flooded	LiJC	4483	382948	dvh5	ok059	1998	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 5 to 20 percent slopes	JesF	6538	392382	f59h	ok065	2000	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	JesC	4035	392381	f59g	ok065	2000	1:24000
Jester and Eda soils, 3 to 15 percent slopes	TpF	3225	383489	dw1m	ok075	1973	1:24000
Jester loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	LdC	12407	384959	dxl1	ok141	1968	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 1 to 30 percent slopes	LkE	8912	384960	dxl2	ok141	1968	1:24000
Jester fine sand, 5 to 20 percent	JesF	14417	385204	dxty	ok151	1995	1:24000
Jester loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	JstC	9599	385205	2txyq	ok151	1995	1:24000
Jester loamy sand, 3 to 12 percent slopes	JeE	884	3100969	1hg46	tx155	2021	1:24000
Jester loamy sand, 3 to 12 percent slopes	JeE	683	368592	dck2	tx269	1999	1:31680

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the JESTER 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).