Van Buren Maps

Contributed by H.E.Huber

1861 Map of Van Buren

Perspective map of Van Buren, Ark. county seat of Crawford County 1888 H. Wellge, sk. Beck & Pauli Lith. Co.

Contributed by John Dill

I think this map answers the questions about where the rail ferry crossed (and it only seems to show one). It was west of the Frisco bridge. The steamboat landing is just east of the bridge. This is in keeping with later maps showing the MoPac track parallel to but west of the Frisco track as they both moved north in Fort Smith toward the bridge.

1892 Van Buren Map

Nov. 1922 Sanborn Map Company maps of Van Buren

	Van Buren	MoPac Shops
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Contributed by John Dill

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Map of Crawford County

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Map of Little Rock & Ft. Smith Railroad

Contributed by John Dill

I looked this up on my "official" Frisco map. (Unfortunately it's rounded to the nearest year). *St.Louis, Ark & Texas R.R. Co. of Ark. Rogers to Fayetteville, 1881 *St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Ry. Co (consolidated) Fayette Jct to Van Buren 1882 It also shows the same company on the Fort Smith side of the river in 1882. *Ft. Smith & Van Buren Bridge Co. (the Arkansas River bridge stretch) is dated 1886 *The track south from Fort Smith to Jensen is dated 1886 as well. From Jenson toward Paris Texas is dated 1887. This (south of Fort Smith) is labled Ft. Smith and Southern. Per this map, that was apparently the enity the Frisco used to build some or all of that section. In that case, Fishback may have just been acting as an agent (publicly or otherwise) for the Frisco at the time. The "Mansfield Branch" of the Frisco (Jensen to Mansfield, 1886) was built as the Little Rock & Texas Ry Co.

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