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Book Title: THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876.

ANDERSON COUNTY.
  Anderson county is located in the second tier of counties west from Missouri,
fifty miles south of the Kansas river, and seventy miles north of the Indian
Territory. It is twenty-four miles square, contains five hundred and seventy-six
square miles, and is well supplied with water by the following streams: North
Pottowatomie, flowing across the northern portion, with the following
tributaries in the north and west: Sac creek, Ianthe creek, Kenoma creek, Elm
creek, Thomas creek and Cherry creek; Cedar creek and South Pottowatomie, rising
in the central portion, flowing north into the North Pottowatomie; Sugar creek
with its numerous branches, in the eastern portion, flowing east into Linn
county; the Little Osage river, with its numerous tributaries, in the southeast,
flowing southeast through Bourbon county; Deer and Indian creeks, flowing south
through Allen county. These are all streams of pure, living water, abounding
with fine fish. Along most of these streams abundance of good timber is found,
consisting of black walnut, burr oak, red oak, hickory, elm, hackberry,
sycamore, hard and soft maple, basswood, cottonwood, wild cherry, locust and
mulberry. The alluvium or bottom prairies are found along all of these streams,
being as fine quality of land as can be found in the State, the soil being from
two to five feet deep. The general surface of the country is a gentle, rolling
prairie, with a few steep hills or bluffs, interspersed with many beautiful
mounds and high ridges. The soil is of fine quality, and is admirably adapted to
the growing of the cereals, fruit, hemp, flax, tobacco, potatoes, castor beans,
broom corn and every variety of products commonly grown in this latitude.

  A superior quality of sand stone, for building purposes, is found in the
western and central parts of the county. Limestone is found in most portions. A
fair quality of stone coal is found in the northwestern and southeastern portions.

  Bottom land, 10 per cent.; upland, 90 per cent.; timber, 6 per cent.; prairie,
94 per cent.; average width of bottom, about two miles.

  A more specific description of the different portions of the county will be
found in the chapters relating to the different townships.


Additional Comments:
THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY,
FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876.
BY
W. A. JOHNSON,
CHAIRMAN OF HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.

PUBLISHED BY KAUFFMAN & ILER, GARNETT PLAINDEALER,
1877.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
KAUFFMAN & ILER, In the office of the Librarian of Congress,Washington, D. C.


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