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Map Sheet Number	Points of Interest
00	(Front map plate)
1	Beginning of the map, confluence of Arkansas and Grand Rivers; also shows confluence of Arkansas and Verdigris Rivers; Fort Gibson and unnamed fort (separate part of Fort Gibson?); two Ferry locations (unnamed); "Indian graves" across the river from Fort Gibson; Texas Road on the south side of the Grand River.
2	Texas Road on east side of river; "table land"; two separate locations of "Indian Graves", both on west side of river; Mrs. Foreman's Ferry; Battle field of Rabbit Ford, 1863; Coal Bank; Rabbit ford shoal; Frozen rocks shoal; "Or Archer's Frozen Rock"; note saying that "prairie extends 400 miles S.W."
3	Trading Point Frozen Rock / Or Archer; Devil's Peak of Lookout Mountain; Coody's Channel.
4	Cordry Bayou Structure (looks larger than the "house" symbols) with "Mich??K Rollig??" next to it (difficult to read); "Oak & Ash Timber."
5	"Oak & Ash Timber"; Young Cottonwood Timber; Wood Yard; Boudinot Shoal; Brewer Creek; (No north arrow).
6	Brushy Mountain; Spring Branch (stream).
7	Brushy Mountain; Fort Gibson Road; Indian Village.
8	Hildebrand's Bend; Field with houses marked "Hildebrand"; Twin Bayou; Ferry (unnamed).
9	Greenleafs Mountain; Greenleafs Creek; Bayou Manarde; Salt Lick Bayou; "John Cevere resdt" [residence].
10	"R Cage" and "Stone Bluff" (Labeling the same feature?); Hoods Island; Taylor's Bar Shoal; "Tow Head" (island); Road to Webber Falls; unnamed road labeled "Road".
11	Confluence of Illinois River; Webber Falls; Foreman's Ferry (near the Illinois confluence); unnamed ferry near Webber Falls.
12	Dardenne Cr. [difficult to read, second "d" may not be a "d"]; Jack Palmer Pasture.
13	Confluence of Canadian River; "Sandstone and Slate".
14	Three "Tow head" islands; "Camp Meeting Grounds"; asmall patch of "Drift" on the river bank; Pleasant Bluff.
15	Vienna Creek; Field labeled "Savan".
16	Beaver Point.
17	Hugh Bar (gravel bar), part of this labeled "Flat Rock & Sand"; Salisaw Creek.
18	Applegates Point level land; large sandbar labeled "Quartzose Sand"; Confluence of Sans Bois River.
19	Blue Mountain; alabeled "survey line" from the river to the mountain (these are on other map sheets but usually not labeled); Black Rock (appears to be a bedrock prominence).
20	Young cottonwood timber; a low area or wide channel labeled "Overflow".
21	Diligence Bend; Sanders Bend.
22	Young Cottonwood; Paddle Brook; area labeled "Overflow"; Cache Creek; McKane's Bluff; house and small field marked "Senders".
23	Small group of buildings marked "Holts"; what appears to be a bedrock outcrop marked " Holts Rock".
24	Fort Coffee; atriangle symbol and the legend "100 PE + Water" (the "100 PE +" is difficult to read and may be different); Walkers Sloo; field with houses marked "Wilson" and "Wilson's Rock" near it.
25	Young Cottonwood.
26	Has some trees that look different from the normal "forest" symbol. May be an orchard? They are in a field near a house.
27	Young Cottonwood.
28	Fort Smith U.S. Military Reservation; State Line (between Arkansas and the Indian Territory); National Cemetery; confluence of the Poteau River.
29	Young Cottonwood.
30	Van Buren (town of); Unnamed Ferry; Fort Smith Road; Garrison Creek; Lee's Creek.
31	Sand Island; two areas labeled "Subject to overflow"; area labeled "Above ordinary high water"; Fort Smith Van Buren Road; Line Creek.
32	Flat Rock Landing (With anchor symbol); Straines Landing (With anchor symbol); unnamed ferry; Flat Rock Creek; Mazzard Creek; Shipping Point for Coa; road labeled "5 miles to coal bank", building labeled "Hoyt, W.".
33	Field labeled "Mrs. Knox Place"; field labeled "Field's Place"; field labeled "Anderson Place", also with the label "overflow in very high water via Vache Grass Creek"; Little Vache Grass Creek; Big Vache Grass Creek with "Slate Rock"; point labeled "75 ft above water"; field labeled "John Hollinan"; field with houses labeled "Savag Place"; field labeled "Bridgeman".
34	Building labeled "School House"; field with building labeled "Heirs of S. Campbell"; unnamed lake north of river; Burrows Landing.
35	Moores Rocks; field labeled "Luce's farm overflowed 1867"; Myer's Store; unnamed Store.
36	Arbuckle's Island; orchard.
37	Arbuckle's Island; Big Creek Mill Creek; ridge labeled "Mountain Ridge".
38	Mulberry Island; Mulberry Creek; ridge labeled "Mountain Ridge"; Crawford Court House; Thorlkills Lodge.
39	White Oak Island; White Oak Shoal; Lang's landing; Earns landing; Benners landing.
40	Little Rock & Fort Smith Rail Road; White Oak Creek; area labeled "Overflow 1866&7"; Gaskins Shoal.
41	Section corner, Middle Township;fField labeled "Pine Hollow"; ridge labeled "Bluff"; Mill Creek.
42	Town of Ozark; Gar Creek; Oak Bend.
43	Oak Bend; Sycamore Island; English Shoa;l field with building labeled "Mrs. English"; section Line (unnamed); Pond Creek; Mike's Creek; Moore's Creek; area labeled "Overflow"; Moore's Island.
44	Town of Roseville; area labeled "Sand Prairie"; field labeled "Cabell's Ldg"; West Creek; Smith Creek; ferry (unnamed).
45	Titsworth Island.
46	Field labeled "Wm Whittle"; field labeled "Ray's Place"; field and buildings labeled "Walter's"; Gravel or sand bar: "Walker's Bar" (next to "Walter's" - one may be mislabeled.)
47	Gravel or sand bar: "Walkers Bar"; gravel or sand bar: "Hogan's Bar"; field labeled "Logan"; field and buildings labeled "Whitaker"; field labeled "Hogan"; field and building labeled "Montgomery"; field labeled "E.A. Dart"; Young Cottonwood; feature labeled "Projecting rock"; Patterson's Bluff, labeled "130 ft. + water"; building labeled "Corner Store"; building labeled "Store"; Patterson's Landing; graves marked "Graves"; field or buildings labeled "Th. Wittackat" (difficult to read) - across the river from "Whitaker", but the "Whittacka" is clear; Short Mountain Creek; Bayou Slough.
48	Horse Head Creek.
49	Field labeled "Breckersloff (or Bieckersloff?) Place"; field labeled "Lewis Place"; building labeled "Edelmann"; field and building labeled "Cleveland Regan"; field labeled "Logan's Bottom"; building labeled "McGowan"; building labeled "Nick Smith"; bluff labeled "Morrisons Bluff"; Caney Creek.
50	Town of Spadra Bluff; Spadra Creek; area labeled "Overflow"; buildings labeled "Jas. Weir"; field labeled "J. Smith"; section line.
51	Spadra Rapids; field and buildings labeled "Mrs. Brtton"; Cane Creek.
52	Dry Chute Slough; Pittsburgh Landing; Calin Creek; "Wreck of Florenee Trabet" (or Trabee); field labeled "Deadning"; Harvicks Landing.
53	Shoal Creek Shoal; High Water Channe;l field labeled "J.G. Cox"; Shoal Creek.
54	Piney Creek; section corner; Barnum's Landing; Piney Creek Island; Sand Island.
55	Big Piney Creek; buildings labeled "Old Mill Ruins"; field labeled "Bottom 3/4 mile wide"; line labeled "Blazed line"; field labeled "Woodyard" (difficult to read).
56	Sand or gravel bar labeled "Bulards Bar".
57	Delaware Creek; Illinois Bayou; section corner; building labeled "Store"; field and buildings labeled "W.B. LeMoyns" (difficult to read).
58	Dardanelle Mountain; sand/gravel bar labeled "Illinois Bar".
59	Town of Dardanelle (with the following features labeled: Quay, and the streets: Front, First, Second, Hickory, Gun, North Main, Pine, Quay, Locust, South Main, Pecan, Oak); town of Morristown; sand/gravel bar labeled "Morristown Bar"; sand/gravel bar labeled "Dardanelle Bar"; section corner; Dardanelle Shoals.
60	Horse Tail Ripple; foot of Horse Tail Ripple; area labeled "Jacqua".
61	Upper Hog Thief Shoal; sand/gravel bar labeled "Hog Thief Bar"; field and buildings labeled "Thompson"; buildings labeled "Jenning".
62	Lower Hog Thief Shoal; Sickley Bend; field and building labeled "Thos. McDowel" (difficult to read); Lake Slough; Field and building labeled "Witley".
63	Town of Galla Rock; buildings labeled "Hollengers"; field and buildings labeled "Isaac Love"; field and buildings labeled "J.D. West"; field and buildings labeled "G.W. Moore"; building labeled "Cotton Gin"; field and buildings labeled "Amos Johnson"; field and building labeled "A.M. Gibson".
64	Gravel/sand bar labeled "Galla Bar"; town of Galla Rock; what appears to be an obstruction in the river labeled "Hell's Half Acre" (Symbol is similar to that for "drift" on sheet 14); Petit Jean River; Petit Jean Mountain (labeled 1000 ft. high).
65	Sand/gravel bar labeled "Petit Jean Bar"; sand/gravel bar labeled "Swallow Bar"; Galla Shoal; Petit Jean Mountain; Galla Creek; Linksweiler's Bend.
66	Sand/gravel bar labeled "Swallow Bar"; Swallow Shoa;l Goose Island; Stouts Landing.
67	Goose Island; area labeled "Low Bottom"; Point Remove Creek. Visible only on Fayetteville copy is a faint note that appears to have been added some time after "reduction by pantograph", but before photocopying: "Deans Mill 1 1/2 miles to Morrilton", with a building shaded in just east of the mouth of Point Remove Creek. Also visible, apparently added at the same time is a note that reads "Little Rock, 17 miles above mouth."
68	Town of Lewisburg; Lewisburg Bar; Bendy Bar Island.
69	Cypress Creek; field and buildings labeled "Robert Brown"; building labeled "Store"; field labeled "Bunker Hill"; McKee's Store; unnamed landing.
70	Area labeled "Low Bottom"; area labeled "Bed of old lake"; area labeled "Newly formed bank covered with young cottonwoods"; area labeled "swamp"; Isaac Creek; Gibbins & Mathews Store.
71	Town of Portland; section corner; Portland Island; field and buildings labeled "David Sackrider".
72	Cadron Creek; Cadron Bluff.
73	Caledonia Bluff; Caledonia Bar; Evans Bar; area labeled "Young Cottonwood Timber".
74	Section line; Stanley Bar; Stanley's Landing; Stanley Shoal.
75	Town of Hamilton; building labeled "Saw Mill"; Tailor Creek; area labeled "Cypress Swamp"; area labeled "Slate Rock"; store labeled "Store"; field labeled "Klinglever's"; possible section line (unlabeled); unnamed landing.
76	Fourche La Fevre (stream); Wood's Landing; Benedict's Bar; section line; field labeled "Benedict's" (may be labeling road instead of field).
77	Feature labeled "Rock Gauge"; Beaver Dam Reef (labeled "15 inches in low water"); William's Landing; section line; Palarm Bar.
78	Palarm Island; Palarm Bayou; Danley Landing; Cophills Landing; field labeled "Mr. Kapp".
79	Palarm Island; rail road line (Unnamed); Palarm Bluff; Mamelle Island; river-bank feature labeled "Natural Steps"; Burton Sloo.
80	Mamelle Island; town of Rector; Crystal Hill; Rector's Island; Mamelle Bluff; Mamelle Creek.
81	Belcher Bar; building labeled Church; field and buildings labeled "Belcher"; river bank labeled "Caving bank"; Mamelle Bluff; Little Mamelle Creek.
82	White Oak Creek; Mine Hill; area labeled "Big Rock".

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