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2011 Map of Cherokee City

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Cherokee City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

Cherokee City and the surrounding borderlands of Benton County appear here in detail just after the first decade of the 21st century. This region is defined by a series of north-south running hollows and creek beds, including Columbia Hollow and Backer Hollow, which carve through the landscape toward the Spavinaw Creek drainage. The settlement at Bloomfield sits adjacent to the wide, open Round Prairie, illustrating the traditional division between the wooded draws and the upland agricultural plains.

Genealogists will find a high density of burial sites documented, such as Cherokee City Cemetery, Bloomfield Cemetery, and the Coats and Dixon cemeteries. The southern portion of the map is dominated by the waters of Lake Flint Creek, while the historic crossing at Keiths Ford on the northern edge points to older travel patterns that predated the modern road grid. Smaller communities like Ionia, West Point, and Tonnece anchor the network of rural routes spanning the Arkansas-Oklahoma line.