Every Lake
Arkansas
The only place where the mountains run east-west — the Ouachitas, folded the wrong way.
Arkansas in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Arkansas.
About Arkansas
Arkansas splits cleanly in half on the diagonal. The northwest is highland: the Ozark Plateau and, below the Arkansas River valley, the Ouachita Mountains, which run east and west instead of north and south — folded that direction, and nearly unique in North America for it. Southeast of the fall line the land drops to the Mississippi Delta, flat rice and cotton ground behind levees, with the river's oxbow lakes marking old channels along the eastern border. The Arkansas River cuts across the middle from Fort Smith to the Mississippi. Seventy-five counties, ten of them with two county seats.
Arkansas entered on June 15, 1836 as the 25th state. Little Rock takes its name from a small stone outcrop on the south bank of the Arkansas River — the first rock a traveler met coming upstream from the Delta, and the natural crossing between lowland and upland, which is why the capital sits there. The board carries Hot Springs and its bathhouses, the Buffalo National River, the first river given that protection, and I-40 running the state's full width.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 9 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
