2024 Map of Velvet Ridge

About this map

Batesville Blvd serves as the primary corridor through this section of the Arkansas interior, where the settlements of Velvet Ridge and Denmark established themselves among the complex drainages of the White and Jackson county line. The landscape is defined by its numerous small-scale watercourses, including the winding Glaise Creek and its many tributaries like Whippoorwill Branch and Hurricane Branch. These streams carve through a series of named elevations, most notably Buzzard Roost Mtn and Throckmorton Hill. Genealogists will find several burial grounds documented, such as Bethlehem Cem and Velvet Ridge Cem, which anchor the local communities. The settlement pattern is largely rural and dispersed, with the small community of Twentythree sitting in the southern reaches and Heffington to the east, connected by a network of county roads that follow the natural contours of the local hills and hollows.