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1939 Map of Jonesboro

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Jonesboro
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1942
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1942

About this map

Jonesboro and the neighboring community of Nettleton serve as the primary hubs in this late 1930s survey of Northeastern Arkansas. The landscape is characterized by a dense network of rural infrastructure, including Arkansas A & M College and the St Louis Southwestern RR. Beyond the central town, the map documents a transition from the elevated western terrain near Lorado to the low-lying eastern ditch systems such as Butlers Ditch.

Genealogical value is found in the high density of combination school-church-cemetery sites, such as Pleasant Hill Ch Sch & Cem and Rock Hill Ch Sch & Cem, which served as the social anchors for scattered agricultural settlements. Small landmarks like the Doss Flag Stop and family-named locations like Culberhouse Cem and Higginsbottom Hope Sch provide specific reference points for researchers tracing early twentieth-century rural life in Craighead and Greene counties.