Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
48A85P086785CO051002Wetopa7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.1258316,-107.4672241
48A90P098590CO029005Wetopa7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.9822235,-107.6324997
48A90P040990CO051001Wetopa6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.1158333,-107.3005524

Water Balance

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

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the WETOPA series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the WETOPA series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the WETOPA 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 .

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with WETOPA share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the WETOPA series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the WETOPA 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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 terrace figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with WETOPA, 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 .

Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing WETOPA 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
Wetopa family-Broad Canyon complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes1034537509257k2xnco6471:24000
Wetopa family-Jersey association, 10 to 35 percent slopes1184505509272k2y4co6471:24000
Wetopa-Doughspon-Echemoor families complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes338B4389214149471jhcgco6541:24000
Wetopa family, 5 to 25 percent slopes383B161614150071jhfdco6541:24000
Wetopa-Hayrack complex, 5 to 40 percent slopesGM199407331283430gv9co6541:24000
Wetopa-Wesdy complex, 5 to 65 percent slopesGM20081331283330gv8co6541:24000
Wetopa-Wesdy complex, 5 to 65 percent slopes20090535509571k37sco66019941:24000
Wetopa-Hayrack complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes19955594509569k37qco66019941:24000
Wetopa-Maciver families, complex, eroded mountain tops904C66421487794ztbmt60520071:24000
Wander-Wetopa-Wesdy families, complex, gentle mountain slopes522C32481486014zmlmt60520071:24000
Adel-Dunkleber, rarely flooded-Wetopa families, complex, alluvial-colluvial deposits613G215714932050csmt60520071:24000
Bridger-Adel-Wetopa families, complex, alluvial-colluvial deposits613E193314932250cvmt60520071:24000
Dunkleber, rarely flooded-Wetopa-Foolhen, rarely flooded families, complex, valley bottoms643G157214932150ctmt60520071:24000
Tiban-Wetopa families, complex, gentle mountain slopes522P15211486034zmnmt60520071:24000
Maciver-Philipsburg-Wepota families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes533X12931486444znzmt60520071:24000
Wetopa-Finn, frequently flooded-Wichup, rarely flooded families, complex, valley bottoms642G1286149011501tmt60520071:24000
Midfork-Wetopa-Woodhurst families, complex, cirque basins2510T123614931250cjmt60520071:24000
Wetopa-Wesdy-Midfork families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes532C12361486384znsmt60520071:24000
Levengood-Benteen-Wetopa families, complex, valley bottoms646G105614931850cqmt60520071:24000
Wetopa-Finn, frequently flooded-Wichup, rarely flooded families, complex, alluvial-colluvial deposits612G10091487214zrgmt60520071:24000
Philipsburg-Wander-Wetopa families, complex, alluvial-colluvial deposits6110C45214931550cmmt60520071:24000
Wetopa-Philipsburg-Prudy families, complex, gentle mountain slopes523C355149229508vmt60520071:24000
Adel-Dunkleber-Wetopa families, complex, alluvial-colluvial deposits613G5715312181ndc4mt61020051:24000
Dunkleber, rarely flooded-Wetopa-Foolhen, rarely flooded families, complex, valley bottoms643G65259777350ctmt61220111:24000
Maciver-Philipsburg-Wepota families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes533X1325977084znzmt61220111:24000
Levengood-Benteen-Wetopa families, complex, valley bottoms646G4259777250cqmt61220111:24000
Wetopa-Finn, frequently flooded-Wichup, rarely flooded families, complex, valley bottoms642G12511827501tmt61220111:24000
Levengood-Benteen-Wetopa families, complex, valley bottoms3053117101621vdkjmt63619831:24000
Dunkleber-Wetopa-Foolhen families, complex, valley bottoms3032717101601vdkgmt63619831:24000
Wetopa-Finn-Wichup families, complex, valley bottoms3021117101591vdkfmt63619831:24000
Youman-Wetopa complex, 5 to 25 percent slopes630348925154682qcszwy6351:24000
Owlcan-Wetopa, moderately deep, families, complex, 5 to 45 percent slopes2534552554762534hwy6351:24000
Helmville-Wetopa, moderately deep, families, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes34512554765535pwy6351:24000
Doolittle-Wetopa-Helmet families, complex, 10 to 50 percent slopes234167011519705348wy66320121:24000
Helmville-Wetopa, moderately deep, families, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes3456872152014535pwy66320121:24000
Booneville-Mayflower-Wetopa, moderately deep, families, complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes22461391519655343wy66320121:24000
Wetopa-Cimarron families, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes4525477152046536qwy66320121:24000
Owlcan-Wetopa, moderately deep, families, complex, 5 to 45 percent slopes2533606151977534hwy66320121:24000
Youman-Wetopa complex, 5 to 25 percent slopes63036425546752qcszwy7231:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WETOPA 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 .