Cherokee Prairies 112-Cherokee Prairies Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma 59,410 sq. Winter wheat, soybeans, corn, grain sorghum, other feed grains, and hay are the major crops.
Some cotton is grown in a few counties in Oklahoma.
About one-tenth of the area, the steeper valley slopes and some of the wet bottom land, is woodland. The acreage of woodland in Kansas is considerably less than that in Missouri and in Oklahoma. The northern part has a thin mantle of loess. Even though the area is thoroughly dissected, local relief is in meters, and large valleys are about 25 m below the adjacent uplands. Average annual precipitation - 900 to 1,050 mm.