Poinsett County High Point Trip Report
on Cherry Valley East and Harrisburg quadrangles
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Hans Haustein
Poinsett County's Highpoints are located south of Harrisburg on Crowleys Ridge.
To reach the highpoints from the junction of State Highways 14 and 1 in Harrisburg, drive south on
Highway 1 for 4.1 miles. There are large piles of sand and gravel on the east side of Highway 1, this will
mark where Farm Hill Road intersects Highway 1. Turn east on Farm Hill Road, go across the railroad
tracks and past the sand and gravel piles and then up Crowleys Ridge. It is 0.8 mile from Highway 1 to the
Farm Hill Church and Cemetery, also Old Military Road intersects from the northeast near this point.
South of Old Military Rd 0.6 miles is the first of the highpoint areas on the east side of the road.
This highpoint area is located in Kudzu across the road from a large gravel pit.
There are two other areas show on the Quad Sheet north and east of this point, they no longer exist,
they have been reduced to the gravel seen in piles by Highway 1.
Benchmark DEAD is 0.2 mile south on Farm Hill Rd from the first area. There were two discs set in
concrete about forty feet apart, I was unable to tell which was the actual BM, they both had DEAD
imprinted on the disc. The more northern of the two was the higher and seemed to fit the placement on the
Quad Sheet. The one disc further south is near a large propane tank and near a drive to a trailer.
Across Farm Hill Road from the discs is the entrance to the Razor Rock Materials Company (address 18595
Farm Hill Road), this company owns most of the land on either side of Farm Hill Road. Visible in the
distance to the east are some very large gravel piles, much higher than the natural highpoint areas.
The final three highpoint areas are located about 0.2 mile south of BM DEAD. From the entrance drive to
the water tower the next two highpoint areas are located east of the water tower along the road cut.
The area east of Farm Hill Road is higher than the area west of Farm Hill Road by the water tower, this was
confirmed by hand leveling. The east highpoint area is near a fence line of house's back yard, it appears to
be in the right-of-way of Farm Hill Road.
The final highpoint area is located south of the water tower drive in a field of briars and sage grass, it is posted.
This area hand leveled the same as the area east of Farm Hill Road. So of the original seven
highpoints listed only four need to be visited.
The latitude and longitude of the highest, BM DEAD, are (35.4952° N, 90.70818° W).