What is the geography of Doniphan, Missouri?
by AB-Wikibot on April 12th, 2007 Doniphan is located at (36.622106, -90.822179). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.5 square kilometrekm sq (1.4 square miles), all land. The area that became Doniphan was permanently settled as early as some time in the mid-1820’s when Lemuel Kittrell and wife Elizabeth Waugh Kittrell homesteaded on a bluff above the east bank of Current River near the site of a French trader’s cabin. Lemuel Kittrell had been born in Kentucky in 1805, arriving in what was then Wayne County, Missouri in 1819 with at least two brothers and one sister, children of the early larger Wayne County (before reduction through county creation including Ripley County itself in 1833), Missouri pioneers Samuel and Nelly Shamwell Kittrell, who had married in Granville County, North Carolina, and with their baby daughter headed west to Christian County, Kentucky and then on to Missouri. Lemuel Kittrell soon built a grist and wood carding mill
