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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Map Unit Legend <br />Yuma County, Colorado (co125) <br />Map Unit Symbol Map Unit Name Acres In AOI Percent of AOI <br />2 Ascalon loamy sand, 3 to 9 0.6 0.0% <br />percent slopes <br />3 Ascalon sandy loam, sandy 129.0 7.6% <br />substratum, 3 to 5 percent <br />slopes <br />5 <br />Ascalon fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 <br />percent slopes <br />19 <br />Haxtun sandy loam, 0 to 3 <br />i percent slopes <br />22 <br />Julesburg loamy sand, 0 to 3 <br />percent slopes <br />23 <br />Julesburg loamy sand, 3 to 7 <br />percent slopes <br />29 <br />Monter loamy sand <br />37 <br />Rago loam <br />236.7 <br />440.6 <br />69.7 <br />449.5 <br />13.9% <br />25.8% <br />4.1% <br />26.3% <br />151.5 8.9% <br />230.2 13.5% <br />Totals for Area of Interest 1,707.8 <br />Map Unit Descriptions <br />The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the soils <br />or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions, along with the <br />maps, can be used to determine the composition and properties of a unit. <br />A map unit delineation on a soil map represents an area dominated by one or more <br />major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified and named <br />according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic <br />class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. On the landscape, <br />however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the characteristic variability <br />of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some observed properties may extend <br />beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic <br />class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic <br />classes. Consequently, every map unit is made up of the soils or miscellaneous areas <br />for which it is named and some minor components that belong to taxonomic classes <br />other than those of the major soils. <br />Most minor soils have properties similar to those of the dominant soil or soils in the <br />map unit, and thus they do not affect use and management. These are called <br />noncontrasting, or similar, components. They may or may not be mentioned in a <br />particular map unit description. Other minor components, however, have properties <br />and behavioral characteristics divergent enough to affect use or to require different <br />management. These are called contrasting, or dissimilar, components. They generally <br />are in small areas and could not be mapped separately because of the scale used. <br />Some small areas of strongly contrasting soils or miscellaneous areas are identified <br />by a special symbol on the maps. If included in the database for a given area, the <br />10 <br />100.0% <br />