Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the KINGSVILLE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of KINGSVILLE, 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 KINGSVILLE 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
139AB-1261995-OH007-126Kingsville4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties41.9091682,-80.6902771
8983P0404S1982WI137003Kingsville5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.165554,-89.5430527
95A83P0410S1982WI137009Kingsville5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.0155563,-89.066391
9809N02032008MI139009Kingsville6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties42.9145833,-86.1469444
9809N0194F2008MI121022Kingsville6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.2930833,-85.9792222
9809N0195F2008MI121023Kingsville6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.2839444,-85.9804444
9809N0197F2008MI123002Kingsville6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.2981111,-85.9668333
98S80MI-73-8S1980MI073008Kingsville6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.6035833,-84.6423889
n/aAB-1151961-OH007-115Kingsville3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a
n/aLK-0061967-OH085-006Kingsville4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the KINGSVILLE 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 KINGSVILLE 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 KINGSVILLE 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 KINGSVILLE 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with KINGSVILLE 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 KINGSVILLE 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 KINGSVILLE 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with KINGSVILLE, 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. OH-2012-02-16-11 | Ashtabula County - May 1973

    Soil pattern in the Elnora-Colonie-Kingsville soil association (Soil Survey of Ashtabula County, Ohio; May 1973).

  2. WI-2012-03-23-41 | Waushara County - September 1989

    Pattern of soils and parent material in the Kingsville-Meehan association (Soil Survey of Waupaca County, WI; 1984).

Map Units

Map units containing KINGSVILLE 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
Kingsville loamy fine sand112512507999686kmi01719781:20000
Kingsville loamy fine sandKg1142673464686kmi05119661:15840
Kingsville loamy sandKf52673463685pmi05119661:15840
Kingsville loamy sandKe1004618701668lsmi05719751:12000
Kingsville loamy sand2110519186610685pmi07319831:15840
Kingsville mucky sand6080411925836gdcmi10519921:15840
Kingsville loamy fine sandKg48903186637686kmi11119761:15840
Kingsville loamy sandKf15092673547685pmi11119761:15840
Kingsville mucky sand2118717186453680mmi12319901:15840
Pipestone-Kingsville complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes96A5611186521682tmi12319901:15840
Kingsville mucky sand5813611890636bqtmi12719921:15840
Kingsville loamy sand145112267361068lsmi14519911:15840
Pipestone-Kingsville complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes48A1360218632767wkmi15919841:15840
Kingsville loamy sand51999618633267wqmi15919841:15840
Kingsville loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesKfA1971298902b110oh00720011:12000
Kingsville fine sandKf14842868189mg6oh08519761:15840
Kingsville loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesKs13077423963g757wi13719861:20000
Kingsville mucky loamy fine sandKs808422794g5yjwi13919771:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the KINGSVILLE 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 .