Twice each Sunday Tom-Tom rides "into town to church" (156). This is probably the same Negro church where Dilsey (in The Sound and the Fury) and Sam Fathers (in "The Old People") also worship, though all the story explicitly says is that it is in Jefferson.
This is the "smelly, third-rate grocery" where Flem spends "two or three nights a week" sitting by the stove, listening to the conversation of other men (152). The story does not say where in Jefferson it is located, but as a third-rate business it is not likely to be on the Square at the center of town.
In other stories the "house" in the Big Bottom wilderness that Ike remembers is called a fishing camp or a hunting camp (273). It is where the annual hunting party would gather in November. Under its roof, Ike thinks, he found his "sense of home" (274). Along with the Big Bottom, however, now "the house itself no longer exists" (274).
The unnamed woman carrying Boyd's child tells Ike that until two years ago, she lived with her father "in Indianapolis" (278). Indianapolis is both the capital and the largest city in Indiana, and its population is about one-quarter African-American.
New Mexico goes through a story of its own across the course of the 5 texts that mention it. Santa Fe is a frontier town in Light in August, only recently acquired by the U.S. as one of the prizes of the Mexican War, when Nathaniel Burrington and his family go there looking for someone to officiate at their wedding. It would still have been a U.S. territory forty years later when Jack Houston herds sheep there during his twelve-year journey through the West in The Hamlet.
Fifty weeks of the year Ike McCaslin lives in "a house in Jefferson" which he owns (274). It is "kept for him by his dead wife's niece and her family" (274).
On a lot in Jefferson that was given to Ike McCaslin and his wife as a wedding present by her father, Ike builds this "cheap frame bungalow" (Go Down, Moses, 5). Later, the house is "kept for him by his dead wife's widowed niece and her children" (335). He lives in one room of this house for fifty weeks a year, but his true "home," of course, is the big woods (335).
The "big bottom" where Ike shot his first buck was a large tract of wilderness inside Yoknapatawpha, "only thirty miles from Jefferson" (273). The "house" within it, Major de Spain's hunting camp, was the gathering point for the men who shot deer and bear (273). But its woods, "the great cypress" and "the tremendous trunks," disappeared decades ago (273), which means that the hunters have to travel further each year to reach a suitable hunting ground.
The 200-mile trip that the hunters take from Yoknapatawpha to their camp in the Delta gives Faulkner an opportunity to describe the interior of Mississippi in both spatial and temporal terms. Geographically, the they travel from the "cradling hills" in the east (270) to the "rich unbroken alluvial flatness" of the vast flood plain along the Mississippi River (267).
