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1939 Map of Hunter

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Hunter
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1946
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1946

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The Cache River and its bottomlands define this pre-war landscape where Woodruff, Cross, St. Francis, and Monroe Counties converge. This 1930s survey reveals a dense network of small communities and rural institutions supported by the rail lines of the era, including the St Louis Southwestern and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific. The agricultural character of the region is evident in the many scattered churches and schools, such as Hillmann Jr High Sch and Mt Zion Ch & Sch, which served the local populations in Hunter, Cotton Plant, and Wiville.

Genealogists can trace family footprints across numerous burial grounds like Odd Fellows Cem, Essex Ch & Cem, and Crowder Ch & Cem. The varied terrain features Nubbin Ridge and winding waterways like De View Bayou, illustrating how drainage patterns dictated settlement in this portion of the Arkansas Delta before modern infrastructure altered the flow of the Possum Creek and Caney Creek watersheds.