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1888 Map of Dardanelle #4

Name: 1888 Topographic Map of Dardanelle #4
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1888
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1888

About this map

The Arkansas River serves as the dominant axis for this late nineteenth-century survey, which reveals the riverfront character of Dardanelle before modern developments altered the channel. The town is plotted with its early street grid adjacent to Morristown, where the L. R. & R. R. R. R. line approaches the riverbank. Across the water, Galla Rock marks a historic landing point near the mouth of Galla Creek.

Away from the river, the landscape transitions into the prominent elevations of Reeds Ridge and Aplin Ridge. The mapping detail captures small rural clusters such as Centerville and Nealy, alongside numerous named waterways like Petit Jean Creek and Mill Creek. This 1888 fieldwork by the Geol. Survey of Arkansas provides a rare look at the drainage patterns and early road placements that defined the agricultural and transport economy of the era.