Soil Data Explorer - MEAGHER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
44	05N0403	S2004MT059020	Meagher	8	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	46.5558052,-111.1487808
46	06N1017	S2006MT107009	Meagher	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	46.689724,-109.8780594

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the MEAGHER 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 MEAGHER series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the MEAGHER 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the MEAGHER 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 2024-10-23).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with MEAGHER share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the MEAGHER 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the MEAGHER 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 2024-10-23).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with MEAGHER, 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 2024-10-23).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing MEAGHER 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
Anceney-Trimad-Meagher complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes	755F	4924	155711	570y	mt622	1997	1:24000
Meagher-Shawmut-Bowery complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	752E	2031	155709	570w	mt622	1997	1:24000
Meagher loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes	57C	1184	155602	56xf	mt622	1997	1:24000
Meagher cobbly loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes	257C	439	155351	56nb	mt622	1997	1:24000
Meagher cobbly loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	257B	354	155350	56n9	mt622	1997	1:24000
Meagher loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	57D	142	155603	56xg	mt622	1997	1:24000
Meagher, very bouldery-Shawmut, stony complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes	701E	3114	2487063	2pgzv	mt624	2021	1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 4 to 8 percent slope	662C	758	1902100	21v92	mt624	2021	1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes, foothills	662B	746	1902094	21v8w	mt624	2021	1:24000
Shawmut, very stony-Meagher, stony-Wimper complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	705D	701	2487075	2ph07	mt624	2021	1:24000
Absarook, stony-Meagher, extremely bouldery-Bacbuster, very bouldery complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	450D	67	2485203	wckr	mt624	2021	1:24000
Bacbuster-Meagher-Castner complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	166D	9	2485125	v6jt	mt624	2021	1:24000
Absarook, stony-Meagher, extremely bouldery-Bacbuster, very bouldery complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	450D	1090	2486258	wckr	mt632		1:24000
Bacbuster-Meagher-Castner complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	166D	728	2392782	v6jt	mt632		1:24000
Martinsdale-Meagher complex, 2 to 4 percent slopes	554B	204	2392824	2l9xw	mt632		1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes	254C	147	2486249	2pg4l	mt632		1:24000
Meagher cobbly loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, stony, foothills	154C	75	2618233	2pqkf	mt632		1:24000
Meagher loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	354B	72	2392806	2l9x9	mt632		1:24000
Anceney-Trimad-Meagher complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes	166	30	146565	4xhx	mt636	1983	1:24000
Meagher cobbly loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, stony	954C	7343	148085	4z2y	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	354B	6921	148023	4z0y	mt637	2014	1:24000
Absarook, stony-Meagher, extremely bouldery-Bacbuster, very bouldery complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	450D	6174	815478	wckr	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes	254C	6044	148008	4z0g	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	254B	5413	148007	4z0f	mt637	2014	1:24000
Martinsdale-Meagher complex, 2 to 4 percent slopes	554B	4233	148048	4z1r	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher cobbly loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, stony, foothills	154C	3874	2496381	2pqkf	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher, extremely stony-Absarook, very stony-complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	240D	3174	814055	wb2v	mt637	2014	1:24000
Martinsdale-Meagher complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes, foothills	54C	2583	2517360	2q9zx	mt637	2014	1:24000
Bacbuster-Meagher-Castner complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	166D	2464	780853	v6jt	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes, foothills	662B	2454	2517353	21v8w	mt637	2014	1:24000
Shanley, bouldery-Chivington-Meagher complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	999F	2046	1613224	1r4ph	mt637	2014	1:24000
Martinsdale-Meagher complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	554C	501	1529492	1nbkg	mt637	2014	1:24000
Meagher-Perma complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	187E	619	2422629	2m9yb	mt638	1985	1:24000
Meagher-Subwell complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes	101D	54	2422603	2m9xh	mt638	1985	1:24000
Meagher gravelly loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	308C	325	149875	50yp	mt639	2000	1:24000
Meagher-Losttrail complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	101C	995	158513	59yb	mt645	2013	1:12000
Meagher-Wimper complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes	101D	696	158512	59y9	mt645	2013	1:12000
Meagher-Wimper complex, wet, 4 to 15 percent slopes	125D	423	633587	p899	mt645	2013	1:12000
Meagher-Perma complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	187D	396	1389569	1hmyt	mt645	2013	1:12000
Meagher-Perma complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	187E	232	1389568	1hmys	mt645	2013	1:12000
Meagher-Wimper complex, wet, 15 to 25 percent slopes	125E	218	158534	59z0	mt645	2013	1:12000
Meagher, stony-Shawmut, very stony-Windham, stony complex, 4 to 35 percent slopes	2421E	5796	696143	rcd7	mt669		1:24000
Winspect, extremely bouldery-Meagher, extremely bouldery-Sawicki, extremely bouldery-Bacbuster, stony complex, cool, 15 to 45 percent slopes	5620E	3971	699329	rgq0	mt669		1:24000
Corbly, very stony-Beaverton-Meagher complex, 2 to 35 percent slopes	3525E	3178	699422	rgt0	mt669		1:24000
Absarook, very stony-Whitlash, extremely cobbly-Meagher, very stony complex, 4 to 35 percent slopes	7503E	2442	156484	57tw	mt669		1:24000
Shawmut-Meagher complex, extremely bouldery, 8 to 35 percent slopes	365D	2111	156912	588p	mt669		1:24000
Meagher-Shawmut complex, stony, 4 to 25 percent slopes	766E	1934	156962	58b9	mt669		1:24000
Shawmut-Beaverton, extremely stony-Meagher complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	65C	1462	156836	5867	mt669		1:24000
Wimper-Meagher-Windham extremely bouldery complex, 8 to 45 percent slopes	5635E	1416	699331	rgq2	mt669		1:24000
Meagher-Cabba-Pachel complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes	5531E	1244	699419	rgsx	mt669		1:24000
Meagher-Shawmut complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	2205C	855	711055	rvx8	mt669		1:24000
Meagher, stony - Braziel,extremely bouldery -Tolbert,very stony Complex 35 to 70 percent slopes	6701F	537	156742	5836	mt669		1:24000
Meagher-Hilger complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	203	21459	1480220	1lp91	wy041		1:24000
Meagher-Beeno-Hilger complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes	204	8131	1480219	1lp90	wy041		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MEAGHER 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 2024-10-30).