Soil Data Explorer - RED BUTTE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the RED BUTTE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of RED BUTTE, 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 RED BUTTE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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
28A	40A3767	75UT041005	Red Butte	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	38.5964661,-112.1155777

Water Balance

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with RED BUTTE 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 RED BUTTE 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 RED BUTTE 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).

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

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with RED BUTTE, 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 RED BUTTE 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
Reywat-Red Butte families complex, 5 to 50 percent slopes	62	9493	3183889	2x4gl	ut617		1:24000
Plegomir-Red Butte families complex, 2 to 40 percent slopes	60	1947	3183887	2x4gj	ut617		1:24000
Red Butte, dry-Checkett-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes	144	3560	2220466	2djky	ut626		1:24000
Red Butte-Hiko Peak, steep association, 15 to 70 percent slopes	189	7169	483505	j73y	ut628		1:24000
Pass Canyon-Red Butte complex, 8 to 40 percent slopes	177	4031	483655	j78s	ut628		1:24000
Kanarra-Pass Canyon-Red Butte association, 5 to 30 percent slopes	157	1160	483495	j73m	ut628		1:24000
Pass Canyon-Red Butte, extremely stony complex, 8 to 40 percent slopes	177	4511	2510587	2r81m	ut629		1:24000
Red Butte, extremely stony-Hiko Peak, very stony association, 15 to 60 percent slopes	189	2728	2504551	2r81r	ut629		1:24000
Kanarra-Pass Canyon-Red Butte, extremely stony association, 5 to 30 percent slopes	157	121	2504544	2r81f	ut629		1:24000
Red Butte extremely gravelly loam, 15 to 40 percent slopes	460	13251	484000	j7mx	ut634	1997	1:24000
Pass Canyon-Red Butte-Rock outcrop association, 15 to 40 percent slopes	441	9222	483979	j7m7	ut634	1997	1:24000
Red Butte very gravelly loam, 2 to 15 percent slopes	461	5682	484001	j7my	ut634	1997	1:24000
Red Butte very cobbly loam, 3 to 50 percent slopes, eroded	RBG2	11484	484674	j8bn	ut640	1967	1:20000
Red Butte-Deer Creek association, 30 to 50 percent slopes, eroded	REG2	8365	484677	j8br	ut640	1967	1:20000
Phage-Red Butte association, 3 to 30 percent slopes, eroded	PRF2	3765	484663	j8b9	ut640	1967	1:20000
Red Butte-Phage asociation, 3 to 30 percent slopes, eroded	RGF2	2800	484679	j8bt	ut640	1967	1:20000
Red Butte very rocky loam, 3 to 50 percent slopes, eroded	RCG2	1415	484675	j8bp	ut640	1967	1:20000
Red Butte-Flowell association, 3 to 30 percent slopes, eroded	RFF2	810	484678	j8bs	ut640	1967	1:20000
Red Butte association, 3 to 60 percent slopes, eroded	RDG2	720	484676	j8bq	ut640	1967	1:20000
Horrocks family-Red Butte family, bouldery association, 10 to 50 percent slopes	251	5484	512463	k682	ut646		1:24000
Donnardo, very stony-Red Butte families complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes	142		625202	nzkt	ut649		1:24000
Forsey-Red Butte families, complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes	157		625230	nzlq	ut649		1:24000
Flowell-Red Butte families, association, 0 to 30 percent slopes	154		625232	nzls	ut649		1:24000
Red Butte family-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes	189		625243	nzm4	ut649		1:24000
Red Butte-Kanarra-Reywat families, association, 5 to 40 percent slopes	188		625244	nzm5	ut649		1:24000
Red Butte family, 2 to 15 percent slopes, stony	187		625245	nzm6	ut649		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the RED BUTTE 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).