Faulkner describes the road that leads from the main road to the Old Frenchman place in both "Lizard's in Jamshyd's Courtyard" and The Hamlet. In both texts the episode that the road figures in is the same: Flem Snopes conning V.K. Suratt ("Lizards") or V.K. Ratliff (Hamlet) and two local residents of Frenchman's Bend into believing there's buried treasure on the old plantation. The short story describes the "old road" first.
The Grimms live in "the adjoining county" (147), and apparently own "a right smart of land" there (149). Our decision to place them south of Yoknapatawpha is based on the fact that both Flem Snopes and Suratt use the word "down" to locate their place relative to Frenchman's Bend, as in "down there" (148) and "down yonder" (149).
What this story calls "Mrs. Littlejohn's house" is identified in other texts as a boarding house (149). Presumably Eustace Grimm is staying there; both he and Flem Snopes eat lunch there. The narrator says it is "a quarter of a mile down the road" from Varner's store (149).
When the story begins, Suratt and his brother-in-law each own half of a restaurant in Jefferson. The story mentions its "backless and friction-smooth stools" and its "friction-smooth counter" (141), but gives no information about its location. When Faulkner revised the story for inclusion in The Hamlet he added the detail that it was on one of the town's "side-streets."
The narrative says that the barn where Suratt finally sees a goat is "three miles from town" (140). It doesn't say on which road; our decision to put it on this one is based on the fact that, after leaving the farm of the second goat owner, Suratt "returns to Jefferson without passing Varner's store" (140).
The "first goat owner" whom Suratt calls on has a farm somewhere "near Varner's store" (139). (When Faulkner re-tells this story in The Hamlet, the man who owned the goats is identified as Ben Quick.)
All we know about the ranch that "a Northerner" is establishing "to breed native goats" is that it is somewhere "across the county" from Frenchman's Bend (138-39).
The country store that Will Varner owns and that Flem Snopes runs is the center of social life in "the Frenchman's Bend country" (139). Suratt, for example, always stops there on his professional travels, sharing and gathering information from the groups of local farmers who can almost invariably be found "squatting along the porch" that faces the road (139).
