The face of the county is mostly level or gently undulating, even the rivers and creeks not having any considerable bluffs or hills in their vicinity. In the southwest, southeast, and northwest parts of the county and near the center, there are prairies mostly small and not exceeding one-twelfth of the county. They are usually called wet prairies, yet they are easily made tillable, and are excellent for meadow and pasture. The principal growth of timber is oak, hickory, poplar, beech, walnut, sugar, linn, etc., with undergrowth of hazel, dogwood, spice, and prickly ash; but the oak land is more extensive than the beech. There are but few acres in this county that cannot be well adapted to some farming purpose. White River in the Center, the Mississinewa in the north, Buck Creek and their numerous tributaries supply the county abundantly with waterpower, and there are already eighteen gristmills and thirty sawmills in the county, some of which are not surpassed in the State. This county has heretofore been so distant from good markets, and the roads so bad a portion of the year, that it has improved but slowly the last few years. The Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad, which is now progressing rapidly to completion, has already awakened the slumbering enterprise of the farmers, and there is now every prospect that Delaware will soon be among the richest and best counties in the State.

The taxable land in the county amounts to 249,271 acres. Muncietown, where the Muncie tribe of the Delawares mostly resided, was on White River, near the present Seat of Justice, though the Indian town was mostly on the north side of the river. Here the prophet brother of Tecumseh resided, and here, until it fell by decay a few years ago, stood the post at which he caused his enemies, whites and Indians alike, to be tortured. David, Conner, an Indian trader, was the first white man who settled here. It was through his influence with the tribe that the former use of the post was discontinued during the last war.