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1963 Map of Vilonia

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Vilonia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The community of Vilonia serves as the central hub for this rural Faulkner County landscape in the early 1960s. Settled along the North Fork of Palarm Creek, the area is defined by a series of parallel east-west ridges including Cadron Ridge, Cypress Ridge, and Palarm Ridge. These high points are pierced by numerous named gaps, such as Powell Gap, Carmichael Gap, and Duncan Gap, which historically dictated the flow of local travel and transport.

Smaller outlying settlements like Funston and Otto appear alongside several rural congregations and burial grounds, such as the Cypress Valley Ch and Birmingham Cem. The southern edge of the map follows the winding course of Meto Bayou and Billy Goat Bayou as they cross the boundary into Pulaski County. The topography reveals a land defined by its drainages, where life followed the creeks between the sandstone ridges before modern highway expansion altered the traditional rural footprint.