There is no other timber in the county. The Cimarron river runs across the northwest corner of the county. There is a pond in Township 34, Range 30, covering some five acres, which is connected with the Cimarron river by Goose creek. There are two creeks, called Big Spring and Little Spring, which are fed by springs, in the central and western part of the county, and empty into Crooked creek. The soil is a rich sandy loam.
Buffalo grass prevails on the uplands, and blue stem and other wild grasses on the bottoms.
Considerable hay was put up in the bottoms in the fall of 1878. There are no schools or churches in the county as yet, Building Stone, etc. Transcribed from First Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture to the Legislature of the State of Kansas, for the Years 1877-8 embracing statistical exhibits, with diagrams of the agricultural, industrial, mercantile, and other interests of the state, together with a colored outline map of the state, and sectional maps, in colors, of each organizaed county, showing their relative size and location, railroads, towns, post offices, school houses, water powers, etc., etc. Permission is granted for use only on an official KSGenWeb page.