The scene at the railroad station that the narrator remembers, of "a country man named Bundren" sitting "in the coach window handcuffed to a fat deputy sheriff" (228), occurs, with slightly different details, in As I Lay Dying.
The unnamed narrator attends school somewhere in town, but we have to speculate about where the school building is located - and how many grades are taught there. It's possible that one building contains all grades from elementary through high school.
The denomination of the Jefferson church where both the narrator and Uncle Willy attend Sunday school is never identified. It's definitely one of Yoknapatawpha's main Protestant denominations - not Episcopalian, but Methodist, Presbyterian, or Baptist. The way its members refer to each other as "Brother" and "Sister" makes Methodist perhaps the most likely (229, etc.).
The few details that the narrator provides about himself and his family include the fact that on Sunday mornings he and the other boys who admire Uncle Willy "wait in our yards" for him to pass by on his way to church (227).
Usually called Courthouse Square, "the square" (234) sits at the center of both the town of Jefferson and the county of Yoknapatawpha. In addition to being the seat of local government, it is the site of many of the town's businesses, including, in all likelihood, many of "the stores" out of which various townsmen emerge to watch Willy's wife walk "along the street" (237). Since this story implies that Willy's drugstore is on the square, we have located the "curb" across the street where Job sits there (233).
In the later novels The Town and The Mansion Faulkner calls Jefferson's main or only drugstore 'Christian's,' but in this short story Willy's drugstore cannot be the only one in town, since "nobody let him fill a prescription" (226), his customers do not include the more affluent "town trade" (233), and the store is closed and locked for several long periods of time. But when the story says he "turned sharp off the square" after leaving his store (234), it implies it is located at the center of town.
Willy was born and still lives in "a little old neat white house . . . on the edge of town" (225). It could have been built in the antebellum era, since that is when his father opened the drug store that Willy also inherited. The house is on "a little quiet side street where the other houses are all little new ones" (237). The neighborhood is a lower-middle-class one: his new neighbors are "country people who had moved to town within the last fifteen years, like mail carriers and little storekeepers" (237).
Faulkner seems to have invented the town of Renfro, where Job finds a telephone, along with the pasture "five miles away" from Renfro, where the last act of Willy's life plays out (246). Whether he imagined it as located in Tennessee or Mississippi (or, less probably, Arkansas) cannot be determined.
