1979 Map of Mountain Home East

About this map

Mountain Home and the western reaches of Norfork Lake dominate this aerial orthophotoquad, which overlays land lines from a 1966 topographic survey onto 1979 imagery. The map reveals the relationship between the growing residential patterns of the town and the deeply recessed, dendritic shoreline of the reservoir to the east. By merging photographic detail with cadastral data, the survey highlights how the Ozark landscape influenced local development, with clearings and roads following the ridgelines and plateaus. This specific edition, produced in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service, offers a unique visual record of land use and timber cover in Baxter County during the late 1970s.