1972 Map of Casa

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The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad forms a primary east-west corridor through this section of the Arkansas River valley in the early 1970s, anchoring the community of Casa. To the north, the Petit Jean River meanders toward its confluence with the Arkansas, defining the Petit Jean River State Wildlife Management Area and the southern edge of the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge. The landscape is a mix of agricultural river bottoms like Carden Bottom and the rising elevations of Cove Mountain and Rose Creek Mountain. Small rural centers and named crossings such as Cotton Town, New Neely, and Slaty Crossing illustrate the distributed settlement patterns of Yell and Perry counties. Local history is preserved in landmarks like Harris Cem and Hickory Grove Ch, while several Gravel Pits and a Shale Pit mark the era's local extractive activity.