Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the MAITLAND soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of MAITLAND, 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 MAITLAND 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
6240A2481S1957SD081001Maitland5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.3919449,-103.6508331
6240A2488S1958SD081001MAITLAND5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.1805573,-103.7561111
6240A2499S1958SD103001MAITLAND5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.9857941,-103.4766693

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the MAITLAND 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 MAITLAND 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 MAITLAND 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 MAITLAND 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with MAITLAND 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 MAITLAND 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 MAITLAND 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with MAITLAND, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing MAITLAND 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
Bayerton-Maitland complex, 25 to 50 percent slopes49336496476jnmcco62719801:24000
Maitland fine sandy loam, 1 to 15 percent slopes397502496475jnmbco62719801:24000
Bayerton-Maitland complex, 25 to 50 percent slopes526M100509862k3k5co63620111:24000
Maitland fine sandy loam, 1 to 15 percent slopes544M21509879k3kqco63620111:24000
Maitland-Lakoa loams, 15 to 50 percent slopesP222F457527332552rvdrsd08120071:24000
Lakoa-Maitland complex, 6 to 25 percent slopesP194D126027332542rvdfsd08120071:24000
Maitland, moist-Hickok loams, 15 to 50 percent slopesQ0536F53424263212mfsfsd08120071:24000
Hickok-Maitland, moist complex, 6 to 25 percent slopesQ0533D45724261272mfl5sd08120071:24000
Lakoa-Maitland complex, 6 to 25 percent slopesP194D1144927334262rvdfsd60019741:24000
Maitland loam, 10 to 40 percent slopes111854349189cqc5wy01119781:24000
Maitland loam, moist, 6 to 10 percent slopesQ0830C55224392632mw7xwy01119781:24000
Maitland loam, 6 to 10 percent slopesP220C7727457642rvd1wy01119781:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MAITLAND 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 .