Sarty's Hill (Location Key)

According to Faulkner, "Yoknapatawpha" is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land." But compared to much of the rest of Mississippi, especially the Delta, his county in the northern part of the state has a lot of elevation changes. The "crest of a hill" that Sarty Snopes is sitting on at the end of "Barn Burning," "his back toward what he had called home for four days anyhow," and his future an unknown that will take him away from his family and Yoknapatawpha, is one of many significant hills and ridges in the canon (24).