Soil Data Explorer - WICKWARE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with WICKWARE 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 WICKWARE 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 WICKWARE 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 mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with WICKWARE, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. WI-2010-11-08-01 | Barron County - 2001

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Arland-Hayriver-Freeon association (Soil Survey of Barron County, Wisconsin; 2001).

Map Units

Map units containing WICKWARE 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
Stryker and Wickware families, high stream terraces and escarpments	13JA	3632	2809033	2tr3n	mt603	1989	1:24000
Wickware family, dissected hills and alluvial fans	14JB	2720	2809037	2tr3s	mt603	1989	1:24000
Stryker and Wickware families, high stream terraces and escarpments	13JA	2	2995320	2tr3n	mt638	1985	1:24000
Stryker and Wickware families, high stream terraces and escarpments	13JA	689	2995397	2tr3n	mt651	1997	1:24000
Wickware silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135C2	1750	431348	2yt35	wi005	1993	1:20000
Wickware silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135D2	203	431349	2yt36	wi005	1993	1:20000
Wickware silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135C2	7786	421588	2yt35	wi017	1985	1:15840
Wickware silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	135B	3290	421587	2yt34	wi017	1985	1:15840
Wickware silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135D2	2648	421589	2yt36	wi017	1985	1:15840
Wickware silt loam, 20 to 30 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135E2	20	3217402	2yt37	wi017	1985	1:15840
Wickware silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135C2	4634	2518491	2yt35	wi033	2003	1:12000
Wickware silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135D2	1853	2518492	2yt36	wi033	2003	1:12000
Wickware silt loam, 20 to 30 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135E2	74	2518493	2yt37	wi033	2003	1:12000
Wickware silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135C2	1079	3217390	2yt35	wi035	1974	1:12000
Wickware silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, moderately eroded	135D2	830	3217391	2yt36	wi035	1974	1:12000
Wickware silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	135B	190	3217385	2yt34	wi035	1974	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WICKWARE 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).