1941 Map of Snowball

About this map

The Buffalo River snakes through the northern reaches of this Ozark landscape, defining a region of tight hollows and high knobs at the transition between Newton and Searcy counties. The map captures a pre-war upland economy centered on small, dispersed communities like Snowball and Witt Springs, where life revolved around a network of rural institutions. This is evidenced by the high density of neighborhood-scale schoolhouses, including the Welcome Home Sch and Bohannon Sch, many of which were the primary landmarks for these isolated valleys.