2021 Map of Pleasant Hill East

About this map

Pleasant Hill and Nebo anchor this rural landscape in the southwestern corner of Pike County, where the hills drop away toward the Mississippi River floodplain. The terrain is defined by a dense network of drainages including Bay Creek, Spring Cr, and Buck Br, which carve deep valleys such as Howell Hollow and Wildcat Hollow into the bluffs. This 2021 survey reveals a high concentration of small, family-named burial grounds that speak to generations of local settlement, with sites like Hartsock Cem, Mason Cem, and New Venable Cem scattered across the uplands. Near the southern boundary with Calhoun County, the landscape transitions from these dissected ridges to the low-lying Crooked Slough and Dolman Pond, marking the edge of the river bottomlands. The map serves as a detailed record of modern rural infrastructure, tracing numerous county roads and township lines that follow the underlying topography of the Illinois river bluffs.