2015 Map of Stella

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Stark City and the southern settlement of Stella anchor this landscape along the border of Newton County and McDonald County. The terrain is defined by a dense network of tributaries including Middle Indian Cr, South Indian Creek, and Stedman Br that carve through hollows like Shannon Hollow and Edmondson Hollow. For genealogists and local historians, the sheet is particularly dense with rural burial grounds, ranging from the Hazelgreen Cemetery near Boulder City to the Dice Cemetery on the eastern edge. This distribution of sites like Macedonia Cemetery and Ivie Cemetery suggests a well-established pattern of small farming communities and family settlements that persisted into the early 21st century. Natural springs, including Macedonia Spring and Lentz Spring, continue to mark the hydrological character of this corner of southwest Missouri.