186 Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Science. 
SOIL SURVEY OF CASS COUNTY, INDIANA. 
COLONZO C. BEALS, Indiana University. 
Description of the Area.—Cass County lies in the north central part 
of Indiana. It is bounded on the north by Pulaski and Fuiton, on the 
east by Miami, on the south by Howard and Carroll, and on the west 
by Carroll and White counties. The greatest length north and south is 
twenty-four miles, while the maximum width is twenty-two miles. On 
the west boundary line it follows an irregular course. Commencing with 
the northwest corner of the county, it runs twelve miles south, three 
miles east, three miles south and eleven miles east to the southeast 
corner of the county. Cass County has a total area of 420 square miles 
and is divided into fourteen civil townships: Boone, Harrison, Beth- 
lehem, Adams, Miami, Clay, Eel, Noble and Jefferson on the north side 
of the Wabash River, and Clinton, Washington, Tipton, Jackson and 
Deer Creek on the south side. 
The county is roughly divided into a north and south portion by the 
Wabash River, which flows in a general east and west direction through 
the county. In the immediate vicinity of the Wabash and Eel rivers. 
the country is undulating and broken. After leaving the rivers, to the 
south the surface is level. All the southern portion, in its natural state, 
was heavily timbered with hardwood, bottom and table land; the central 
portion is mostly bottom with high bluffs; the northern part is largely 
prairie. 
The drainage of the county depends upon the large valley of the 
Wabash and Eel rivers, which extends in an east and west direction 
through the center of the county; the highland in Tipton and Washing- 
ton townships south of the Wabash River; the highland in Jackson and 
Deer Creek townships, and the highland of Harrison and Boone town- 
ships. Deer Creek flows west near the central part of Jackson and 
Deer Creek townships, emptying in the Wabash River near Delphi. 
Rock Creek rises in the southwest part of Tipton Township, and flowing 
west through the southern part of Washington Township, empties into 
the Wabash River north of Rockfield in Carroll County. Pipe Creek 
rises in the southeast portion of Miami County near Xenia, and flowing 
* The soil survey was done under the direction of Edward Barrett, State Geologist, 
in a similar way to the surveys of the past eight years. Mr. James Mathes assisted in 
making the survey which was done in the field season of 1917. Thanks are extended 
to those persons who assisted in making the survey a success. 
