CHAPTER XL. 
REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF PAULDING COUNTY. 
BY N. H. WINCHELL. 
SITUATION AND AREA. 
This county lies in the north-west corner of the State, and borders on 
Indiana. It occupies the angle between the Auglaize and Maumee 
Rivers before their union, extending a little beyond the limits of that 
angle on both streams. Its area is given by the State Board of Equali- 
zation at 259,235 acres, of which 21,443 acres are arable, or plow land; 
7,052 acres meadow or pasture land; and 230,240 acres uncultivated or 
wood land. | 
NATURAL DRAINAGE. 
The Maumee is the principal stream of the county. It cuts off the 
north-west corner of the county, running north-easterly. Ina similar 
manner the Auglaize cuts off the north-east corner, running north- 
westerly. They unite a short distance north of the north line of the 
county, at the city of Defiance. The slope of the county is very gentle 
toward the north-east, and all the other streams flow in that direction, 
the most of them uniting with the Auglaize. The streams are all slug- 
gish, and flow with a winding course through wooded land, which is also 
to a large extent very slowly drained of surface water in the spring. 
SURFACE FEATURES. 
These are to a great extent hid by the existence of a heavy growth of 
forest timber. About eighty-nine per cent. of the acreage is classified as 
“uncultivated, or wood land.” In general the county is an unbroken 
_ plain, the valleys of streams, eroded entirely in the loose Drift materials, 
constituting almost the only variations from a dead flat. On the north 
side of the Maumee there is a gentle descent of about forty feet between 
the county line and the north bank of the Maumee, at Antwerp, with a 
further descent of about fifty feet to the water level. This dense forest, — 
which is but little intersected by roads, is the hunting ground for parties 
coming in the fall of the year from the central and southern parts of the 
