2015 Map of Shirley

About this map

Shirley and Floyd serve as the primary nodes of settlement in this pocket of Washington County, where the topography of the Saint Francois Mountains begins to shape the drainages of the Fourche a Renault. The landscape is notably dense with small family and community burial grounds, such as Stephens Cemetery and the Wilson Family Cemetery, indicating a long history of local kinship and dispersed rural homesteads. Significant recreational and conservation footprints are evident at Camp Lakewood on the shores of Sunnen Lake, while much of the southern portion of the map is managed as part of the Mark Twain National Forest. The drainage patterns of Little Fourche a Renault and Brazil Cr further define the intricate network of hollows, including Coffman Hollow, that characterize this region of the Ozarks.