Soil Data Explorer - PLUMCREEK

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the PLUMCREEK soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of PLUMCREEK, 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 PLUMCREEK were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the PLUMCREEK 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 PLUMCREEK 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 PLUMCREEK 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 PLUMCREEK 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with PLUMCREEK 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 PLUMCREEK 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 PLUMCREEK 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).

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with PLUMCREEK, 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. WI-2010-11-08-06 | Pepin County - 2002

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Ella-Orion-Plumcreek association (Soil Survey of Pepin County, Wisconsin; 2002).

Map Units

Map units containing PLUMCREEK 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
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	793E	172	402530	2xpm2	ia005	1992	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	322TD2	1260	2216733	2xpm1	mn045	2008	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	322TE	1931	398269	2xpm2	mn055	1981	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	322TD2	342	398268	2xpm1	mn055	1981	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	322TD2	666	2216440	2xpm2	mn157	2008	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	322TE	2813	3053662	2xpm2	mn169	1987	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	322TD2	200	3053660	2xpm1	mn169	1987	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	7870	2561820	2xpm2	wi011	1960	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	45	2561819	2xpm1	wi011	1960	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	1545	2504004	2xpm2	wi023	1960	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	2	2505849	2xpm1	wi023	1960	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	2223	2504005	2xpm2	wi033	2003	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	198	2505850	2xpm1	wi033	2003	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	226	2774761	2xpm2	wi043	1959	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	136	2774820	2xpm2	wi049	1960	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	127	2774819	2xpm1	wi049	1960	1:20000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	2602	2504006	2xpm2	wi091	1998	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	88	2505851	2xpm1	wi091	1998	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	885	1690940	2xpm2	wi093	2006	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	259	1690939	2xpm1	wi093	2006	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	3363	2683467	2xpm2	wi121	1969	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	956	2639520	2xpm1	wi121	1969	1:15840
Plumcreek silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes	313E	1995	2504007	2xpm2	wi123	1965	1:12000
Plumcreek silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	313D2	126	2505852	2xpm1	wi123	1965	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the PLUMCREEK 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).