How Did Arkansas's Geography Affect Settlement The Patterns?

I chose to do research on my great, great, great, grandmother who lived during the eighteen hundreds. She settled in North Fork, Arkansas. I discovered after many hours of searching for a modern and historic map that the population had dropped dramatically. The population for her time was 1,128.79 while the town’s population now is about 550 residents she settled in a rural community. I think this could because of the different change in jurisdictional boundaries. I believe the geographic features did affect the settlement the patterns because during this time period most of the early settlers who came to Arkansas were farmers. As a result, they wanted soil with good vegetation which would produce more crops. I wasn’t able to find any churches or cemeteries on either on my

For instance, lead mining brought a lot of jobs to the area as well as coal mining. I found something about each map that I studied. The historic map showed where the Five Civilized Tribes listed on the map while the modern map showed the highways and interstates. According Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, it said, “Indians supplied much of what government Arkansas enjoyed during that period during which France and then Spain claimed the Mississippi River’s west bank. Theoretically, French and Spanish commanders at Arkansas Post enjoyed considerable political military, and juridical authority. They presumed to regulate trade, commercial hunting, and Indian relations. But the settler population was too small, scattered, and obstreperous, and soldiers too few, for the power to be very meaningful. Moreover, the Quapaw and Osage refused to be governed by European law. The Quapaw had made themselves too essential to French survival- and the Osage were simply too powerful- for either to be bullied into submission.”