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1929 Map of Des Arc

Name: 1929 Topographic Map of Des Arc
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1929
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1929

About this map

The Missouri Pacific railroad anchors the valley corridors of Iron and Wayne counties, threading through the settlements of Glover, Chloride, and Annapolis. This late 1920s landscape is defined by its deep hollows and isolated mountain peaks, including Grassy Mtn and Stony Mtn. A high concentration of rural schools such as Ballinger Sch, Collins Sch, and Jewett Sch indicates a distributed population of timber-working or farming families living in the narrow drainages of Big Creek and the Black River.

In the southern portion of the map, the namesake town of Des Arc sits near Des Arc Mtn, while further east, the small community of Brunot is situated along Patterson Creek. The presence of Emily's Chapel and numerous family-named landmarks like Daffron Hollow and McCue Hollow provides specific data for researchers tracing ancestral home sites in these Ozark hills before mid-century modernization shifted the local geography.