The country store that Will Varner owns and that Flem Snopes runs is the center of social life in "the Frenchman's Bend country" (139). Suratt, for example, always stops there on his professional travels, sharing and gathering information from the groups of local farmers who can almost invariably be found "squatting along the porch" that faces the road (139).
Uncle Dick lives alone in "a mud-daubed hut in a cane swamp" thirty miles away from the Old Frenchman place (144). This distance makes it likely that he lives outside Yoknapatawpha, and the cane swamp suggests that his hut is on a river. We have located it upstream from the Old Frenchman place, but that is speculation.
The people who died at the Old Frenchman place when it was a working antebellum plantation were buried in a cemetery that lies "on a smaller knoll" than the mansion house and "four hundred yards" away from it (136). Their "weathered and illegible headstones" remain (136). Apparently slaves were buried there too, since the narrative says that "the progenitors of saxophone players in Harlem honky-tonks" lie there with the kinfolks of the Old Frenchman (136). It's not known if he himself is buried there.
The original formal "garden" at the Old Frenchman's place is now overgrown, an "inscrutable desolation of cedar and brier and crapemyrtle and calycanthus gone lush and wild" (140). It lies on a "shaggy slope" between the mansion and the drive (142).
This "huge house," designed by "an imported English architect" before the Civil War, has been abandoned "for almost sixty years" at the time of the story (136, 135). During that time the small farmers who live nearby have been tearing it apart for firewood, so that now it appears as a "gaunt and austere skeleton," with a "broken roof and topless chimneys" (136). Along with the rest of the property, it is owned by Will Varner when the story begins - and by Suratt, Tull and Armstid when it ends.
In "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" Eustace Grimm and his wife own "a right smart of land" in "the adjoining county" (149, 147). The story doesn't name or locate that county, but characters refer to it as "down there" (148) and "down yonder" (149) - which we interpret to mean 'south of Yoknapatawpha.' When Faulkner revised this story for inclusion in The Hamlet, Grimm and his wife still live "ten or twelve miles away in the next county," but now as tenant farmers on someone else's land (149).
The barn where Suratt finally sees a goat in "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" is "three miles from town" (140). The story doesn't say on which road, but does say that after leaving the second farm in Frenchman's Bend where he tries to buy goats, Suratt "returns to Jefferson without passing Varner's store" (140).
The "first goat owner" whom Suratt calls on in "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" has a farm somewhere "near Varner's store" (139). (When Faulkner re-tells this story in The Hamlet, the man who owned the goats is identified as Ben Quick. Quick's Farm has a separate entry in this index.)
The "ranch" that "a Northerner" wants to establish in Yoknapatawpha "to breed native goats" - a project that startles the locals who hear about it - is only mentioned in "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" (138-39). In The Hamlet Ratliff provides a bit more detail, facetiously describing it as "two thousand acres of as fine a hill-gully and rabbit-grass land as ever stood on one edge" (87), with "forty-four thousand feet of fence around it" (89); he locates it for us "about fifteen miles west of Jefferson" (87).
