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2017 Map of Glennonville

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Glennonville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

The Saint Francis River snakes through the heart of this landscape, its winding channel creating a complex boundary between Butler and Dunklin counties. The terrain is defined by a sophisticated water management system, where the natural hydrology is supplemented by numerous drainage features such as Ditch Number 31, Ditch Number 33, and the seasonally variable Fish Trap Slough. This network supported a rural economy centered on small, dispersed communities like Qulin, Glennonville, and Wilhelmina.

A grid of section lines and county roads, such as State HWY JJ and State HWY DD, structures the agricultural land. Smaller settlements like Osborn and Caligoa appear as quiet clusters along these routes, indicating a pattern of settlement deeply tied to the fertile, reclaimed bottomlands of the Missouri Bootheel. The presence of numbered ditches like Ditch Number 30 and Ditch Number 37 highlights the extensive 20th-century engineering efforts required to transform this riverine environment into productive farmland.