Soil Data Explorer - MOORHEAD

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the MOORHEAD soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of MOORHEAD, 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 MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD 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).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD 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).

Geomorphic description summaries for the MOORHEAD 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 3D mountains figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with MOORHEAD, 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 MOORHEAD 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
Moorhead clay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	181	190	1387747	1hl21	mt643	1967	1:20000
Echeta-Moorhead clay loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	275	84	1387759	1hl2f	mt643	1967	1:20000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	132	26	1387741	1hl1v	mt643	1967	1:20000
Jaywest-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	167	22	1387746	1hl20	mt643	1967	1:20000
Oshoto-Moorhead complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	234	84	780197	v5vn	wy011	1978	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	132	11431	349817	2ztz9	wy605	1995	1:24000
Jaywest-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	167	11357	349859	2wlql	wy605	1995	1:24000
Moorhead clay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	181	10473	349877	cr2c	wy605	1995	1:24000
Ironbutte-Deekay-Moorhead complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes	242	9328	349942	2ztz8	wy605	1995	1:24000
Moorhead-Leiter clay loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	184	8574	349880	cr2g	wy605	1995	1:24000
Moorhead-Leiter clay loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	183	8315	349879	2wls1	wy605	1995	1:24000
Urban land-Deekay-Moorhead complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	230	3879	349930	cr42	wy605	1995	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	133	2251	349818	cr0g	wy605	1995	1:24000
Moorhead loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	182	2209	349878	cr2d	wy605	1995	1:24000
Oshoto-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	189	2109	349885	cr2m	wy605	1995	1:24000
Urban land-Leiter-Moorhead complex, 3 to 10 percent slopes	231	779	349931	cr43	wy605	1995	1:24000
Jaywest-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	167	15797	817549	2wlql	wy705	2003	1:24000
Moorhead-Leiter clay loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	183	14786	817560	2wls1	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	132	12333	817521	2ztz9	wy705	2003	1:24000
Echeta-Moorhead clay loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	275	8279	817528	wfpw	wy705	2003	1:24000
Moorhead-Leiter clay loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	184	8260	817562	wfqz	wy705	2003	1:24000
Moorhead clay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	181	4469	817557	wfqt	wy705	2003	1:24000
Ironbutte-Deekay-Moorhead complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes	242	2551	3223114	2ztz8	wy705	2003	1:24000
Moorhead loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	182	1468	817558	wfqv	wy705	2003	1:24000
Oshoto-Moorhead complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	302	1365	817568	wfr5	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	133	1026	817522	wfpp	wy705	2003	1:24000
Jaywest-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	754	839	1387293	2wlql	wy719	2013	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MOORHEAD 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).