Soil Data Explorer - NIHILL

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the NIHILL soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of NIHILL, 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 NIHILL were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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 NIHILL 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 NIHILL series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the NIHILL 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 NIHILL 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 NIHILL share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the NIHILL 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 NIHILL 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).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with NIHILL, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. CO-2011-05-31-01 | Rio Blanco Area - 1982

   Typical pattern of soils in general map unit 4 (Soil Survey of Rio Blanco Area, Colorado; 1982).

2. CO-2012-05-09-06 | Rio Blanco County Area - May 1982

   Typical pattern of soils in general map unit 4 (Soil Survey of Rio Blanco County Area, Colorado; May 1982).

3. SD-2012-03-15-11 | Custer and Pennington Counties, Prairie Parts - May 1996

   Pattern of soils, topography, and underlying material in the Nunn-Satanta association (Soil Survey of Custer and Pennington Counties, Prairie Parts, SD; 1996).

Map Units

Map units containing NIHILL 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
Potter and Nihill gravelly soils, 1 to 5 percent slopes	PnC	539	94868	35q8	co099	1963	1:15840
Nihill channery loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	R46	209	1415127	1jhk8	co654		1:24000
Nihill channery loam, 6 to 25 percent slopes	47	6300	496789	jnyg	co683	1977	1:24000
Nihill channery loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	46	2700	496788	jnyf	co683	1977	1:24000
Nihill channery sandy loam, 5 to 50 percent slopes	55	1078	497007	jp5h	co685	1979	1:24000
Midway-Nihill gravelly loam	Mu	23890	345488	clhs	mt103	1961	1:20000
Nihill gravelly loam	Na	5595	345490	clhv	mt103	1961	1:20000
Nihill very gravelly loam, moderately steep	NH	7374	347111	cn64	mt611	1971	1:24000
Nihill-Elso association, 8 to 15 percent slopes	Nh	12028	347895	cp0f	mt643	1967	1:20000
Nihill gravelly loam, 3 to 40 percent slopes	Gr	536	352739	2t3vv	sd007	2004	1:20000
Nihill-Schamber gravelly loams, moist, 6 to 30 percent slopes	P268E	53	2668887	2rvfc	sd019	1970	1:24000
Nihill, moist-Suglo complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	P266E	28	2768095	2rvfb	sd019	1970	1:24000
Zigweid-Nihill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	ZnE	5656	355165	2t34d	sd047	1980	1:24000
Ziggy-Nihill complex, 6 to 20 percent slopes	P560D	1500	2733164	2s037	sd047	1980	1:24000
Samsil-Nihill complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes	ScF	1590	354156	cwjd	sd055	1992	1:24000
Nunn-Nihill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	NxD	335	354121	2zzwb	sd055	1992	1:24000
Nihill variant-Attewan complex, 4 to 40 percent slopes	NaD	3889	355771	cy6h	sd063	1984	1:24000
Nihill-Schamber gravelly loams, moist, 6 to 30 percent slopes	P268E	1603	2733284	2rvfc	sd081	2007	1:24000
Nevee-Nihill, moderately deep complex, 10 to 50 percent slopes	P254F	1427	2733258	2rvf4	sd081	2007	1:24000
Rapidcreek, warm-Nihill, moderately deep-Barnum complex, 1 to 20 percent slopes, flooded	P350D	765	2733283	2rvgp	sd081	2007	1:24000
Nihill gravelly loam, 6 to 40 percent slopes	623E	224	1900500	2t3vt	sd081	2007	1:24000
Zigweid-Nihill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	ZaD	45509	354361	2t34d	sd600	1974	1:24000
Nihill gravelly loam, 6 to 40 percent slopes	NbE	7030	354333	2t3vt	sd600	1974	1:24000
Nihill gravelly loam, moist, 9 to 40 percent slopes	P264E	299	2733429	2rvf8	sd600	1974	1:24000
Nihill-Attewan complex, 4 to 20 percent slopes	NaD	4880	355453	cxw7	sd601	1983	1:24000
Zigweid-Nihill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	ZnD	39572	2580991	2t34d	sd606	2011	1:24000
Nihill gravelly loam, 6 to 40 percent slopes	NdE	6376	2580933	2t3vt	sd606	2011	1:24000
Nihill very gravelly loam, 0 to 25 percent slopes	NeD	655	2580934	cyj6	sd606	2011	1:24000
Nihill-Ziggy complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes	P270F	3327	2745671	2rvfd	sd607	2011	1:24000
Ziggy-Nihill complex, 6 to 20 percent slopes	P560D	1426	2745703	2s037	sd607	2011	1:24000
Ziggy-Nihill complex, moist, 6 to 15 percent slopes	P562D	1250	2745704	2s038	sd607	2011	1:24000
Nihill-Ziggy complex, moist, 15 to 50 percent slopes	P271F	572	2745672	2s03g	sd607	2011	1:24000
Nihill-Zigweid complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes	NfE	455	2586457	cydf	sd607	2011	1:24000
Zigweid-Nihill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	ZnD	168	2586564	2t34d	sd607	2011	1:24000
Nevee-Nihill, moderately deep complex, 10 to 50 percent slopes	P254F	61	2768139	2rvf4	sd607	2011	1:24000
Nihill gravelly loam, 3 to 40 percent slopes	Gr	14791	2925515	2t3vv	sd610	1965	1:20000
Nihill-Samsil complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	NkD	6232	2582642	cy38	sd611	2011	1:24000
Nunn-Nihill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	NxD	5407	2582651	2zzwb	sd611	2011	1:24000
Nihill gravelly loam, 3 to 40 percent slopes	Gr	8920	2582695	2t3vv	sd613	2011	1:24000
Rock outcrop-Nihill-Rizno-Strych, moist families complex, 25 to 70 percent slopes	mt56	28414	3314842	30hl5	ut645		1:24000
Nihill, moist-Suglo complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	P266E	8210	2745772	2rvfb	wy011	1978	1:24000
Suglo-Nihill complex, 3 to 10 percent slopes	P506C	2401	2745931	2s022	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nihill-Suglo complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	120	822	349199	cqch	wy011	1978	1:24000
Suglo-Nihill complex, 3 to 10 percent slopes	179	168	349263	cqfk	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nihill, moist-Suglo complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	P266E	6	2768198	2rvfb	wy045	1984	1:24000
Nihill, extremely stony, gravely sandy loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes	2424		3203079	2zbsb	wy629		1:24000
Shingle-Nihill complex, moist, 3 to 80 percent slopes	258	9339	360994	d3mz	wy633	1987	1:24000
Shingle-Nihill complex, 3 to 80 percent slopes	257	1865	360995	d3n0	wy633	1987	1:24000
Theedle-Nihill complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	722	9427	1469307	1l9y0	wy719	2013	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the NIHILL 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).