Soil Data Explorer - NURKEY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

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

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with NURKEY 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 NURKEY 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 NURKEY 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with NURKEY, 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 NURKEY 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
Jimbee, extremely stony surface-Nurkey-Skaggs, very stony surface, families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes	127AF	17489	3173417	2yy4s	id703		1:24000
Nurkey, stony surface-Dacont association, 5 to 30 percent slopes	144-CL	10425	3238860	2sdb	id703		1:24000
Nurkey-Zeebar-Hutchley, stony surface, complex, 20 to 50 percent slopes	143-CL	6958	3173612	2sd9	id703		1:24000
Nurkey-Dacont association, 30 to 60 percent slopes	145-CL	5920	3238861	2sdc	id703		1:24000
Nurkey-Dacont association, 35 to 60 percent slopes	80-B	4222	3238836	2n9p	id703		1:24000
Parkay-Nurkey complex, 20 to 50 percent slopes	160-CL	1952	3173613	2sdx	id703		1:24000
Nurkey-Dacont association, 5 to 35 percent slopes	79-B	400	3238835	2n9m	id703		1:24000
Povey-Nurkey complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes	167	73	1606295	1qxgz	id708	1987	1:24000
Parkay-Nurkey complex, 20 to 50 percent slopes	160-CL		3312433	2sdx	id720		1:24000
Povey-Nurkey complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes	167	667	2410022	2lwtn	id721	2009	1:24000
Nurkey-Dacont association, 30 to 60 percent slopes	145	14147	83029	2sdc	id752	1999	1:24000
Parkay-Nurkey complex, 20 to 50 percent slopes	160	11540	83046	2sdx	id752	1999	1:24000
Nurkey-Zeebar-Hutchley, stony surface, complex, 20 to 50 percent slopes	143	6956	83027	2sd9	id752	1999	1:24000
Nurkey, stony surface-Dacont association, 5 to 30 percent slopes	144	6564	83028	2sdb	id752	1999	1:24000
Nurkey-Dawtonia association, 20 to 55 percent slopes	146	4403	83030	2sdd	id752	1999	1:24000
Hutchley-Nurkey complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	94	4014	83257	2smq	id752	1999	1:24000
Surrett-Nurkey complex, 2 to 10 percent slopes	212	1054	83104	2sgs	id752	1999	1:24000
Parkay-Nurkey complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	159	613	83044	2sdv	id752	1999	1:24000
Jimbee, extremely stony surface-Nurkey-Skaggs, very stony surface, families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes	127AF	442	3239025	2yy4s	id752	1999	1:24000
Nurkey, low precipitation-Nurkey complex, 20 to 40 percent slopes	NK	147	2809319	1qs6v	id758	1998	1:24000
Nurkey, low precipitation-Nurkey complex, 20 to 40 percent slopes	NK	202	1602199	1qs6v	id761	2018	1:24000
Nurkey-Dacont association, 5 to 35 percent slopes	79	2006	79100	2n9m	id763	1998	1:24000
Nurkey complex, 5 to 35 percent slopes	81	1452	79103	2n9q	id763	1998	1:24000
Nurkey-Dacont association, 35 to 60 percent slopes	80	1420	79102	2n9p	id763	1998	1:24000
Jimbee, extremely stony surface-Nurkey-Skaggs, very stony surface, families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes	127AF	103	3239045	2yy4s	id763	1998	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the NURKEY 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).