|KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS| |Location and Early History | Map and
Population | Norton | Lenora| LOCATION AND EARLY HISTORY. NORTON
County, lying in the northern tier, adjoining Nebraska, is the
fourth county from the Colorado line on the west and the tenth
from the eastern boundary-line of the State. Its climate and
soil are similar to the neighboring counties of Phillips, Smith
and Decatur. The soil has the same marvelous richness and
capacity to resist drouth; there is the same scarcity of timber
and absence of stone-coal, the same abundance of fine building-
stone (magnesian limestone.) Like its neighboring counties,
already named, Nortorn has numerous water-courses, the principal
of which are the Solomon River, flowing east through the
southern tier of townships, the Prairie Dog, through the central
portion, and the Sappa, from southwest to northeast, through the
northwest corner of the county. The Solomon has as tributaries,
Cactus, Skull, Buck, Big Timber, Otter, Sand, East and West Elk
creeks, and the Pra