Excerpt from Soil Survey of Platte County, Missouri, 1912
Platte County lies in the northwestern part of Missouri. Its extreme length from north to south and width from east to west are about equal, approximately 20 miles. It is bounded on the north by Buchanan County, on the east by Clinton and Clay Counties, and on the south and west by the Missouri River, along which it has a frontage of about 50 miles. The included area is 127 square miles, or 273,280 acres.
Topographically the county may be divided into two distinct types of country, the flat, almost level flood plains of the Missouri and Platte Rivers and some smaller streams, and the thoroughly dissected uplands.
The elevation of the Missouri River flood plain in the southern part of the county is approximately 760 feet above sea level and in the northern part slightly higher. The elevation of the Pintle River flood plain and that along the lower course of some of the smaller streams is somewhat greater than that of the Missouri.
Those flood plains, or bottom lands, except where broken by low terraces, lakes, and sloughs, are smooth.
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