Soil Survey of Wright County, Iowa (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: T. H. Benton
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ISBN: 9781330852026
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Excerpt from Soil Survey of Wright County, Iowa Wright County, Iowa, is located about midway between the center of the State and its northern boundary and lies in the third tier of counties south of the Minnesota State line. The southeastern corner of the county is 66 miles due north of Des Moines. The county is bounded on the north by Hancock County, on the east by Franklin County, on the south by Hamilton County, and on the west by Webster and Humboldt Counties. It is composed of 16 townships, forming an approximate square, and comprises an area of 575 square miles, or 368,000 acres. The area lies wholly within the region overrun by the Wisconsin ice sheet, and the topography is largely constructional; that is, the surface features were formed by the deposition of glacial debris and not modified to any great extent by subsequent erosion. The county has two general types of topography, a relatively smooth till plain and a morainic hilly region. A line drawn from the center of the northern boundary of the county to a point on the southern boundary about 5 miles west of the southeastern corner will roughly divide the till plain on the west from the morainic hills on the east. The till plain is characterized by nearly level to undulating topography. Boone River and its few tributaries have not yet eroded valleys but flow in narrow channels. Their minor drainage ways have not penetrated over the whole surface, so that areas of several square miles may be untouched by streams, and many streams that penetrate flat areas do not as yet carry away efficiently the surplus water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.