1968 Map of De Witt NE

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La Grue Bayou winds through this portion of Arkansas County, defining a landscape of wetlands and timbered breaks that separate the agricultural fields of the Arkansas Grand Prairie. The small settlement of Emanuel sits at the heart of this rural area, surrounded by a network of country churches including Wofford Chapel, Shiloh Ch, and Rising Sun Ch. These landmarks, along with small burial grounds like Garrison Cem and Ferguson Cem, provide critical touchpoints for genealogists and local historians studying the mid-twentieth-century population centers of this delta region. To the north, Cooks Lake marks the edge of the White River bottomlands, while an extensive irrigation infrastructure, featuring a large Reservoir and multiple flumes, illustrates the area's intensive rice and soybean farming legacy.