2014 Map of Doddridge

About this map

Arkansas and Louisiana meet along a border defined by the rural landscapes of Miller and Caddo Parishes. The terrain is a complex network of waterways, centered on the E Fork Kelly Bayou and W Fork Kelly Bayou which snake through the timbered lowlands. Settlements like Doddridge and Brightstar serve as focal points for this agricultural and extractive region, while the Rodessa Oil and Gas Field indicates the subsurface industrial activity that has long shaped the local economy. Small rural communities such as Kiblah and Capps City are connected by a web of county roads and private tracks, illustrating the dispersed nature of habitation in the early 21st century. Geographers and local historians will find interest in the scattered burial grounds like Sulphur Fork Cemetery and New Hope Cemetery, alongside numerous small lakes such as Jones Lake and Westmoreland Lake that dot the drainage basin.