Forest covers sixteen per cent of the county and rolling prairie and bluffs the other eighty-four per cent.
Timber is found quite plentifully along the Missouri River, and averages one mile in width.
The principal varieties of forest trees are black walnut, hickory, oak and cottonwood. There are also many small streams which are either nameless or have merely local names not in universal use. Of the 242,560 acres of land in the county, about sixty per cent is under cultivation. Doniphan County is not rich in minerals, no coal having been discovered, and, although building stone is believed to exist, no quarries have yet been developed. Iowa Township, incl.