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1943 Map of Rocky Comfort

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Rocky Comfort
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

Rocky Comfort serves as a central hub in this Ozark highland region, situated at the junction of Highway 44 and Highway 86 in northern McDonald County. The landscape is defined by the deep incisions of Big Sugar Creek and Kings Creek, which create a network of ridges and hollows such as Little Blue Hollow and the Whittenburg Hills. The early 1940s settlement pattern is remarkably dense with rural institutions, featuring numerous one-room schoolhouses like Seven Star Sch, Love Sch, and Maple Grove Sch that anchored these remote hollows.

Small communities like Powell, Simcoe, and Ridgley appear alongside family-named landmarks and rural burial grounds including Greason Cem and Corbin Cem. The survey illustrates a transition from the rolling terrain of the Richwood and Elk Horn townships into the more dissected topography near the Missouri Arkansas border. This detailed mapping records a moment when local life still revolved around small parish churches like Antioch Ch and Union Ch before mid-century demographic shifts.