Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the LESHO soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of LESHO, 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 LESHO 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
77E10N1054S2010KS119001Lesho8Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.1348194,-100.3957611
78C87P076687OK151002Lesho7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties36.9955559,-99.4225006

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the LESHO 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 LESHO 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 LESHO 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 LESHO 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 hills figure.

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

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with LESHO 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 LESHO series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the LESHO 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 .

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 LESHO, 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. KS-2012-01-20-49 | Edwards County - September 1973

    Pattern of soils in associations 1, 3, and 7. Association 1 is to the left of Big Coon Creek. Association 7 extends from Big Coon Creek to the Arkansas River. Association 3 is to the right of the Arkansas River (Soil Survey of Edwards County, Kansas; 1973).

  2. KS-2012-01-23-20 | Gray County - January 1968

    Approximate geologic cross section through the central part of Gray County and the general location of soils on the landscape (Soil Survey of Gray County, Kansas; 1968).

  3. KS-2012-01-25-27 | Rice County - December 1974

    Distribution of the soils in the Carwile-Farnum-Tabler and Canadian-Kaski-Platte associations (Soil Survey of Rice County, Kansas; 1974).

Map Units

Map units containing LESHO 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
Lesho clay loam, saline, occasionally flooded2153401213817201hcsmks02519801:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded215273713817191hcslks02519801:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded215290113812701hcb3ks03319871:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded2152158513829412ywsrks03519771:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded2152433713803762ywsrks04719671:24000
Lesho clay loam, saline, occasionally flooded2153214713803772zt6mks04719671:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded21527111523182ywsrks05519621:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded2152338213804402ywsrks05719621:24000
Lesho-Lesho, saline clay loams, occasionally flooded2156248513804421hbgdks05719621:24000
Las Animas-Lesho complex, alkali, occasionally flooded118638813804361hbg6ks05719621:24000
Lesho clay loam, saline, occasionally flooded21536913804412zt6mks05719621:24000
Lesho, saline-Las Animas complex, occasionally flooded2155178713806621hbphks06719651:24000
Las Animas-Lesho complex, alkali, occasionally flooded1186324813805701hbljks06919651:24000
Lesho-Sweetwater complex, occasionally flooded2157220313805741hblnks06919651:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded215277813805732ywsrks06919651:24000
Lesho clay loam, saline, occasionally flooded215358713827041hdtcks07719651:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded2152235113817821hcvmks11919731:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded2152209813801292ywsrks14519761:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded215212114439382ywsrks17319761:24000
Lesho clay loam, occasionally flooded2152370114445992ywsrks19119741:24000
Lesho clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, occasionally floodedSp1320382401dtxjok04319611:24000
Lesho clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, rarely floodedLshA2313382955dvhdok05919981:24000
Lesho silty clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, occasionally floodedLa10280385274307sdok15319611:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the LESHO 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 .