2010 Map of Tiff City

About this map

Tiff City and the surrounding rural landscape of McDonald County sit at the western edge of the Springfield Plain, where the terrain begins to break toward the White River Hills. This 2010 survey details a region defined by its watercourses and family burial grounds, capturing a quiet network of small settlements like Hart and Coy. The drainage patterns of Buffalo Creek, Patterson Creek, and the Elk River dictate the local geography, winding through numerous hollows such as Beeman Hollow and Kinslow Hollow. For those tracing local heritage, the map is remarkably dense with documented burial sites, including Rinehart Cemetery, Price Cemetery, Mannings Chapel Cemetery, and Mitchell Cemetery, providing a precise spatial record of the community's ancestral landmarks. The road network, including the named Hodson Way and Patterson Creek Rd, connects these disparate homesteads and hollows across the Missouri-Oklahoma borderlands.