2020 Map of Hopeville

About this map

The boundary lines of Dallas, Ouachita, and Calhoun Counties converge in this rural Arkansas landscape, anchored by the settlement of Thornton. The area is defined by a dense network of small family cemeteries and creek drainages that historically shaped local settlement patterns. Small communities like Hopeville, Little Bay, and Forrest Bonner are connected by a web of county roads such as Ouachita Road 97 and Dallas 127. Genealogy researchers will find significant value in the distribution of burial sites, including Double Springs Cem, McDonald Cem, and Wheeler's Cem. The physical geography is dominated by winding watercourses like Champagnolle Cr, Freeo Cr, and Beaver Pond Cr, which weave through the lowlands between the scattered upland homesteads and timber tracts of south-central Arkansas.