2011 Map of Palestine

About this map

Palestine serves as the primary hub of this eastern Arkansas landscape, where the town's grid meets a network of county roads and drainage systems. The terrain is defined by the winding course of the L'Anguille River to the east and the many branches of Coffee Creek that segment the surrounding agricultural land. To the south, the smaller communities of Gill and New Salem are anchored by a series of local burial grounds and spiritual centers, including the Mars Hill Church and its adjacent Mars Hill Cemetery. The distribution of these landmarks, alongside Union Hill Cemetery and Westley Cemetery, illustrates a pattern of rural settlement where families remained closely tied to local parishes and community nodes. Scattered water features like Cole Lake and Larkin Creek further reveal the low-lying, hydrologically active nature of the St. Francis County bottomlands.