Columbus, Mississippi (Location Key)

In The Mansion Faulkner locates Yoknapatawpha in between "the flatter prairie land to the east near Columbus" and "the perfectly flat Delta land to the west near Greenville" (358). Columbus lies about one hundred miles southeast of 'Jefferson," i.e. Oxford. If you imagined Yoknapatawpha somewhere on a straight line drawn between Columbus and Greenville, it would be close to a hundred miles south of where it is assumed to be; perhaps in using these reference points, Faulkner is deliberately making it harder to locate his imaginary county on a real map of the state.