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2020 Map of Friars Point NW

Name: 2020 Topographic Map of Friars Point NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2020
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2020

About this map

The Mississippi River creates a dynamic border here, where the state line shifts across the current channel to include Kangaroo Point and the Kangaroo Point Upper Bar. This landscape is defined by the complex hydrology of the Delta, featuring oxbows and old watercourses like Old Town Lake, Long Lake, and the Missouri Slough. These natural features, along with the Beaver Bayou Ditch, dictate the placement of roads and small settlements.

Genealogists will find several small burial sites scattered throughout the agricultural grid, including Saint Marys Cem, Morning Grove Cem, and Maney Cem. The settlement at Preston Place sits in the northeast, while the town of Friars Point is situated on the riverbank at the southern edge of the survey. The mapping reveals a rural network connected by numbered local routes such as Phillips Road 356 and Phillips Road 422, tracing the persistent pattern of land use along the Arkansas and Mississippi border.