Soil Data Explorer - WAREHAM

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the WAREHAM soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of WAREHAM, 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 WAREHAM were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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
144B	40A1224	S1970VT017005	Wareham	5	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.8936119,-72.2305527

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the WAREHAM 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 WAREHAM 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 WAREHAM 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 WAREHAM 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 mountains figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with WAREHAM 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 WAREHAM 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 WAREHAM 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 hills figure.

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 WAREHAM, 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. MA-2010-09-10-03 | Middlesex County - 2009

   A typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Hinckley-Freetown-Windsor association (Soil Survey of Middlesex County, Massachusetts; 2009).

2. MA-2012-02-02-26 | Plymouth County - 1969

   Relationship of soils to topography and underlying material in associations 4 and 5 (Soil Survey of Plymouth County, Massachusetts; 1969).

3. NY-2010-09-28-25 | Saratoga County - 2004

   Typical relationship of soils and underlying material in the Windsor-Deerfield-Scio general soil map unit. Many areas of this unit are farmed and are easily eroded after cultivation (Soil Survey of Saratoga County, New York; 2004).

Map Units

Map units containing WAREHAM 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
Wareham loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	32A	949	276657	98wf	ma003	1984	1:25000
Wareham loamy fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	32B	5889	796340	vqnd	ma017	1991	1:24000
Wareham loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	32A	1856	277059	999d	ma602	1976	1:20000
Wareham loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	32A	928	780123	v5s8	ma603	1979	1:20000
Wareham loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	32A	1205	790831	vjxp	ma605	1977	1:15840
Wareham loamy sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	32B	289	790834	vjxs	ma605	1977	1:15840
Wareham loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	32A	724	791436	vkk6	ma606	1981	1:15840
Wareham loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	32A	3480	277505	99rs	ma607	1975	1:15840
Raynham-Wareham complex, occasionally flooded	218	761	279618	9cyy	nh005	1985	1:20000
Wareham loamy fine sand	Wa	4950	291931	9ss4	ny045	1981	1:15840
Wareham loamy fine sand	Wh	1122	292648	9tj8	ny053	1975	1:15840
Wareham loamy fine sand	50	6924	293442	9vbw	ny065	1993	1:24000
Wareham loamy fine sand	Wb	407	293670	9vl7	ny067	1973	1:20000
Wareham loamy sand	Wa	8134	294442	9wd4	ny091	1993	1:24000
Wareham loamy sand	We	1857	295283	9x88	ny103	1970	1:20000
Wareham loamy sand	Wa	4613	295937	9xyc	ny113	1982	1:15840
Wareham loamy fine sand	Wh	2520	281863	9g9c	vt011	1976	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WAREHAM 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).