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1964 Map of Pinebergen

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Pinebergen
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

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Bayou Bartholomew meanders across this landscape, defining the border between Jefferson and Lincoln counties with its winding oxbows and swampy lowlands. The 1964 survey reveals a transition from the structured farm plots of Pinebergen and Hooker in the north to the dense, wet bottomlands of Bradshaw Brake and Fish Lake. This area was a mosaic of rural communities anchored by small institutions, where churches like Shell Chapel and Wheeler Chapel served as local centers alongside scattered Gravel Pits that suggest local industrial activity.

Genealogists will find significant value in the distribution of family-named burial grounds and rural meeting houses, including Jefferson Cem and New Home Ch. The landscape is etched with the drainage patterns of Whiteville Creek and Melton Creek, while the southern reaches of the quadrangle show the isolated settlement at Griffith Springs, which sits among a network of wood-lots and cleared fields typical of mid-century Arkansas agriculture.