Calhoun County High Point Trip Report
on Fordyce quadrangle
Date: May 18, 2002
Author: Hans Haustein
I had seen this county had been completed earlier by Jobe Wymore but I did not see a trip report on how he
accessed it. Here is the description on the way I took.
From the intersection of Calhoun County Road 84 and US Highway 79 just west of Fordyce go north 0.3
mile to the entrance of the Mount Zion Cemetery. This would be a tough county to do without a GPS.
With that said, follow a muddy road north of the Cemetery for about 200 feet to a trail/road going east-northeast.
This trail/road is overgrown and had several sections blocked by dead-falls. After about 0.4 mile
the road/trail turns to the north. Trail is really faint in places and gets lost in the dead-falls. The highpoint is
about 0.3 mile north-northeast of this point. Just before reaching the highpoint, the trail enters an open
wooded area and ends. The ground continues to slope uphill for about 0.1 mile before reaching a crest near
a large oak tree. This is the largest oak that I saw in the area and makes a pretty good landmark. Just to the
east of this location is a large pine thicket. I could not locate the county line north of the highpoint area,
there were no obvious markings. My GPS came in real handy in doing this highpoint.
Latitude/Longitude of the highpoint is (33.7992° N, 92.4783° W).