Allamakee, a county forming the N. E. extremity of Iowa, bordering on Minnesota, and separated from Wisconsin by the Mississippi river; area, 667 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 17,868. It is intersected in the N. by the Upper Iowa, and in the S. by the Yellow river. The soil is productive, and the surface undulating woodland and prairie. The productions in 1870 were 675,448 bushels of wheat, 331,035 of corn, 2,399 of oats, 25,474 of barley, 73,512 of potatoes, and 18,873 tons of hay. Capital, Lansing.