Soil Data Explorer - KINGSBURY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the KINGSBURY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of KINGSBURY, 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 KINGSBURY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

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

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with KINGSBURY, 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. VT-2012-03-22-06 | Rutland County - 1998

   Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Kingsbury-Vergennes unit (Soil Survey of Rutland County, VT; 1998).

Map Units

Map units containing KINGSBURY 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
Kingsbury-Rhinebeck complex	Kr	1328	290180	9qyn	ny019	1995	1:24000
Kingsbury and Rhinebeck soils, 0 to 3 percent slopes	KnA	4772	290348	9r42	ny021	1985	1:15840
Kingsbury and Rhinebeck soils, 3 to 8 percent slopes	KnB	1435	290349	9r43	ny021	1985	1:15840
Kingsbury and Rhinebeck soils	Kn	1387	290686	9rgz	ny027	1992	1:24000
Kingsbury silty clay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	KyA	7566	319162	bq3k	ny031	2007	1:24000
Kingsbury silty clay loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	KyB	4342	319171	bq3v	ny031	2007	1:24000
Kingsbury and Rhinebeck soils, 0 to 3 percent slopes	KrA	5586	291645	9sgx	ny039	1985	1:24000
Kingsbury and Rhinebeck soils, 3 to 8 percent slopes	KrB	4021	291646	9sgy	ny039	1985	1:24000
Kingsbury silty clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes	KgA	21820	291856	9spq	ny045	1981	1:15840
Kingsbury silty clay, 2 to 6 percent slopes	KgB	8842	291857	9spr	ny045	1981	1:15840
Kingsbury-Livingston complex	Kh	2006	291858	9sps	ny045	1981	1:15840
Kingsbury silty clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes	KbA	17191	295983	9xzv	ny115	1972	1:20000
Kingsbury silty clay, 2 to 6 percent slopes	KbB	6346	295984	9xzw	ny115	1972	1:20000
Kingsbury clay, 0 to 3 percent slopes	KbA	2672	281809	9g7m	vt011	1976	1:20000
Kingsbury clay, 3 to 8 percent slopes	KbB	158	281810	9g7n	vt011	1976	1:20000
Kingsbury silty clay loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	80B	7674	282462	9gxp	vt021	1985	1:20000
Kingsbury silty clay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	80A	6118	282461	9gxn	vt021	1985	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the KINGSBURY 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).