The Presbyterian church which the McEacherns ordinarily attend is "five miles away" from their farm; it takes "an hour to drive it" (147). It is the only place at which Joe ever sees "girls," though because "they are associated with Sunday and with church," "he can not notice them" (184).
The nearest town to the McEachern farm is a county seat - like Jefferson, it has a "courthouse tower" with a "muncipal clock" on it (173), and McEachern's lawyer has his office there. But it is described as a much rougher place than Jefferson. It is also "a railroad division point" (173), that is, a place where trains change crews as they travel through. The presence of this transient population explains why there are "many men about the streets" (173), and a profitable demand for the Memphis prostitutes who work for Max.
The "stable" where McEachern whips Joe for his behavior (148, etc.) is also frequently called a "barn" (161, etc.). In its "loft" Joe hides the suit he bought (170).
The McEachern farm where Joe lives for almost a dozen years is modest, but it seems like a very well-run place. Although the text gives no indication of what McEachern grows in its "field" (152), the team that pulls McEachern's buggy is "stout, wellkept" (144). There are two milk cows, and an unspecified number of other cattle, including the "heifer" that Joe sells (161).
Behind the barn at the McEachern's is "a good-sized pasture" (162) It contains a spring in "a clump of willows" (158), which presumably is the source of the creek that flows beside the pasture "a quarter of a mile" away from the farm buildings (162). Beyond the pasture are trees: "the trunks of them choked with marshy undergrowth" (163).
The "small, dingy, back street restaurant" that Max and Mame own serves both food and prostitution (172). The men who sit at its "long wooden counter lined with backless stools" are neither "farmers" nor "townsmen" - "They looked like people who had just got off a train and who would be gone tomorrow and who did not have any address" (174).
The house where Bobbie lives with Max and Mame is located a mile from corner where Joe used to wait for her. It is on a "gravel road" - i.e. beyond the town's paved "main street" (209, 211). The narrator calls it one of the "small, random, new, terrible little houses in which people who came yesterday from nowhere and tomorrow will be gone wherenot, dwell" (211). At least once it is the site of a sexual encounter between Bobbie and a john (198).
