Soil Data Explorer - KINKORA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Select annual climate data summaries for the KINKORA 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 KINKORA 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 KINKORA 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).

Select annual climate data summaries for the KINKORA 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the KINKORA 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 2D hillslope position figure.

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 terrace figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with KINKORA, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing KINKORA 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
Kinkora silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	KrB	293	533405	kx1m	md600	1972	1:15840
Kinkora silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	KrA	205	533404	kx1l	md600	1972	1:15840
Kinkora loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded	KnA	49	2679245	2r93b	nc027	2012	1:12000
Kinkora loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	KnA	303	2431429	2mm36	nc035	1969	1:15840
Kinkora loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	KnA	400	2493903	2mm36	nc059	1988	1:24000
Kinkora loam	Ko	685	546867	lc1w	nc089	1974	1:20000
Delanco-Kinkora complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded	15A	213	1726311	1vycg	va047	2006	1:24000
Delanco-Kinkora complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded	15B	4106	1914763	228gk	va063	2007	1:24000
Kinkora fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely flooded	30A	242	1914836	228jx	va063	2007	1:24000
Kinkora fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely flooded	36A	621	1670509	1t29d	va077	2006	1:24000
Kinkora silt loam	Kn	1042	516897	kbw3	va079	1983	1:15840
Banister-Kinkora complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes, rarely flooded	2B	3592	1472788	1lfk9	va083	2004	1:24000
Kinkora-Delanco complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded	99A	1088	642155	pk6p	va107	2006	1:12000
Kinkora silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	Rk	315	119912	2zhgg	va137	1966	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the KINKORA 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).