Macomb and Abert's 1870 Map of the Arkansas River
 
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This page contains an index of map features by feature type. Feature types include:
Natural:
Named tributaries and other channels
Islands, bars, and other features significant to river navigation
Other natural features
Cultural:
Towns and forts
Landings
Fields, farmsteads, or residences with a landowner's name
Other named structures
Other cultural features

Please note that the map sheet numbers on this page are not 'hot links' to images as they are on the Full Map Sheets page.

Named tributaries and other channels
Tributary or channel Map Sheet Tributary or channel Map Sheet
Bayou Menarde 9 Line Creek 31
Bayou Slough 47 Little Mamelle Creek 81
Big Creek 37 Little Vache Grass Creek 33
Big Piney Creek 55 Mamelle Creek 80
Big Vache Grass Creek 33 Mazzard Creek 32
Brewer Creek 5 Mike's Creek 43
Burton Sloo 79 Mill Creek 37, 41
Cache Creek 22 Moore's Creek 43
Cadron Creek 72 Mulberry Creek 38
Calin Creek 52 Paddle Brook 22
Canadian River 13 Palarm Bayou 78
Cane Creek 51 Petit Jean River 64
Caney Creek 49 Piney Creek 54
Coody's Channel 3 Point Remove Creek 67
Cordry Bayou 4 Pond Creek 43
Cypress Creek 69 Poteau River 28
Dardenne Creek 12 Salisaw Creek 17
Delaware Creek 57 Salt Lick Bayou 9
Dry Chute Slough 52 Sans Bois River 18
Flat Rock Creek 32 Shoal Creek 53
Fourche La Fevre 76 Short Mountain Creek 47
Galla Creek 65 Smith Creek 44
Gar Creek 42 Spadra Creek 50
Garrison Creek 30 Spring Branch 6
Grand River 1 Tailor Creek 75
Greenleafs Creek 9 Twin Bayou 8
High Water Channel 53 Verdigris River 1
Horse Head Creek 48 Vienna Creek 15
Illinois Bayou 57 Walker's Sloo 24
Illinois River 11 Walter's 46
Isaac Creek 70 West Creek 44
Lake Slough 62 White Oak Creek 40, 82
Lee's Creek 30    
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Islands, bars, and other features significant to river navigation
River feature Map Sheet River feature Map Sheet
Arbuckle's Island 36, 37 Mamelle Island 80
Beaver Dam Reef, 15 inches in low water 77 Moore's Island 43
Belcher Bar 81 Moores Rocks 35
Bendy Bar Island 68 Morristown Bar 59
Benedict's Bar 76 Mulberry Island 38
Big Rock 82 Oak Bend 42, 43
Black Rock 19 Or Archer's Frozen Rock 2
Boudinot Shoal 5 Palarm Bar 77
Bulards Bar 56 Palarm Island 78, 79
Caledonia Bar 73 Petit Jean Bar 65
Dardanelle Bar 59 Piney Creek Island 54
Dardanelle Shoals 59 Portland Island 71
Diligence Bend 21 Projecting Rock 47
Drift 14 Quartzose Sand sandbar 18
English Shoal 43 Rabbit Ford Shoal 2
Evans Bar 73 Rector's Island 80
Foot of Horse Tail Ripple 60 Sand Island 30, 54
Frozen Rocks Shoal 2 Sanders Bend 21
Galla Bar 64 Shoal Creek Shoal 53
Galla Shoal 65 Sickley Bend 62
Gaskins Shoal 40 Spadra Rapids 51
Goose Island 66, 67 Stanley Bar 74
Hell's Half Acre (drift) 64 Stanley's Shoal 74
Hildebrand's Bend 8 Swallow Bar 65, 66
Hog Thief Bar 61 Swallow Shoal 66
Hogan's Bar 47 Sycamore Island 43
Holts Rock 23 Taylor's Bar Shoal 10
Hoods Island 10 Titsworth Island 45
Horse Tail Ripple 60 Tow Head islands 10, 14
Hugh Bar 17 Upper Hog Thief Shoal 61
Illinois Bar 58 Walker's Bar 46, 47
Lewisburg Bar 68 White Oak Island 39
Linksweiler's Bend 65 White Oak Shoal 39
Lower Hog Thief Shoal 62 Wilson's Rock 24
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Other natural features
Feature Map Sheet Feature Map Sheet
100 ft. + water 24 Mine Hill 82
75 feet above water 33 Morrisons Bluff 49
Above ordinary high water 31 Natural Steps (on river bank) 79
Applegate's Point 18 Newly formed bank covered with young cottonwoods 70
Beaver Point 16 Oak & Ash Timber 4, 5
Bed of old lake 70 Overflow 1866 & 7 40
Blue Mountain 19 Overflow areas 20, 22, 31, 43, 50
Bottom 3/4 mile wide 55 Overflow in very high water via Vache Grass Creek 33
Brushy Mountain 6, 7 Overflow of Luce's Farm, 1867 35
Cadron Bluff 72 Palarm Bluff 79
Caledonia Bluff 73 Patterson's Bluff, 130 ft. + water 47
Caving bank 81 Petit Jean Mountain (1000 ft. high) 64, 65
Coal Bank 2 Pine Hollow 41
Crystal Hill 80 Pleasant Bluff 14
Cypress Swamp 75 Prairie extends 400 miles S.W. 2
Dardanelle Mountain 58 Sand Prairie 44
Frozen Rock (near Or Archer residence) 2 Sandstone and Slate 13
Greenleafs Mountain 9 Slate Rock 75
Low Bottom 67, 70 Swamp 70
Mamelle Bluff 80, 81 Table land 2
Mamelle Island 79 Young Cottonwood Timber 5, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 47, 73
McKane's Bluff 22    
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Towns and forts
Town or fort Map Sheet
Dardanelle (with several streets labeled) 59
Fort Coffee 24
Fort Gibson 1
Fort Smith (With U.S. Military Reservation) 28
Galla Rock 63, 64
Hamilton 75
Indian Village 7
Lewisburg 68
Morristown 59
Ozark 42
Portland 71
Rector 80
Roseville 44
Spadra Bluff 50
Unnamed fort (associated with Ft. Gibson?) 1
Van Buren 30
Webber Falls 11
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Landings
Landing Map Sheet
(Unnamed) 69, 75
Barnum's 54
Benners 39
Burrows 34
Cabell's 44
Cophills 78
Danley 78
Earns 39
Flat Rock 32
Harvicks 52
Lang's 39
Patterson's 47
Pittsburgh 52
Stanley's 74
Stouts 66
Straines 32
Thorlkills 38
William's 77
Wood's 76
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Fields, farmsteads, or residences with a landowner's name
Name associated with field or building Map Sheet Name associated with field or building Map Sheet
Anderson Place 33 LeMoyns, W. B. 57
Archer, Or 2, 3 Lewis Place 49
Benedict's 76 Logan 47
Breckersloff Place (? maybe Bieckersloff) 49 Logan's Bottom 49
Bridgeman 33 Love, Isaac 63
Brown, Robert 69 Luce's Farm (overflowed 1867) 35
Brtton, Mrs. (?) 51 McDowel, Thos. (?) 62
Bunker Hill 69 McGowan 49
Cage, R 10 Montgomery 47
Campbell S., Heirs of 34 Moore, G. W. 63
Cevere, John 9 Palmer, Jack 12
Cox, J. G. 53 Ray's Place 46
Dart, E. A. 47 Reagan, Cleveland 49
Deadning 52 Rollig (?), Richard 4
Edelmann 49 Sackrider, David 71
English, Mrs. 43 Savag Place 33
Field's Place 33 Savan 15
Gibson, A. M. 63 Senders 22
Hildebrand 8 Smigh, J. 50
Hogan 47 Smigh, Nick 49
Hollengers 63 Thompson 61
Hollinan, John 33 Weir, Jas. 50
Holts 23 West, J. D. 63
Hoyt, W. 32 Whitaker 47
Jacqua 60 Whittackar , Th. (? Whittacka is clear) 47
Jenning 61 Whittle, Wm 46
Johnson, Amos 63 Wilson 24
Kapp, Mr. 78 Witley 62
Klinglever's 75 Woodyard (?) (Maybe a wood yard?) 55
Knox Place, Mrs. 33    
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Other named structures
Named structures (not residences) Map Sheet
Church 81
Corner Store 47
Cotton Gin 63
Crawford Court House 38
Dean's Mill (added to Fayetteville copy after original reproduction) 67
Gibbins & Matthews Store 70
Mckee's Store 69
Myer's Store 35
Old Mill Ruins 55
Saw Mill 75
School House 34
Store (Unnamed) 35, 47, 57, 69, 75
Trading Point Frozen Rock (Or Archer) 3
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Other cultural features
Feature Map Sheet
Battle field of Rabbit Fort, 1863 2
Blazed Line 55
Camp meeting grounds 14
Foreman's Ferry 11
Fort Gibson Road 7
Fort Smith Road 30
Fort Smith Van Buren Road 31
Graves 47
Indian graves 1, 2
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad 40
Mrs. Foreman's Ferry 2
National Cemetery (Fort Smith) 28
Rail road line (unnamed) 79
Road to Webber Falls 10
Rock Gauge 77
Section/range line or corner 41, 43, 50, 54, 57, 59, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77
Shipping point for coal and "5 miles to coal bank" 32
State line (Between Arkansas and Indian Territory) 28
Texas Road 1, 2
Unnamed ferries 1, 8, 11, 30, 32, 44
Wood Yard 5
Wreck of Florence Trabee (? maybe Trabet) 52
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