Soils report : Cinder Hills area : Elden Ranger District : Coconino National Forest
Patton WW and Meurisse RT. 1972. Soils report : Cinder Hills area : Elden Ranger District : Coconino National Forest
The Cinder Hills Soil Survey comprises 78,128 acres. Eighteen soil series were identified and mapped. Twenty- one mapping units were described and mapped to include the eighteen series and three miscellaneous land types. The soils were grouped into four soil-range environmental groups reflecting differences in productive potential, revegetative potential, and vegetative associations. Five recreation suitability groups were defined on the basis of slope, texture, coarse fragments, and depth. The best ponderosa pine producing soils are the Doney and O'Leary soils producing Site Class II timber. The soils range in hydrologic group from A to D. Due to cinder influence most soils in the area have moderately rapid to very rapid infiltration. Runoff is generally low in the Cinder Hills.