According to the narrative, the jail is "not far" from Courthouse Square (154). Though young Bayard is taken there unofficially to spend the night after having too much to drink, we're told the building looms "above its walled court, square and implacable, its slitted upper windows brutal as sabre blows" (154).
The small "weathered" house and barn of the farmer (or tenant farmer) named Hub is reached by driving "out of town on the valley road," up a faint, rutted wagon road . . . straight into the [setting] sun" (132). It's a poverty-stricken setting; the barn doors, for example, "sag drunkenly from broken hinges" (133). The barn itself seems almost completely empty, except for "the cow" and the jug of moonshine Hub keeps in the loft. He, young Bayard and Suratt drink from it at a spring under "a huge beech and a clump of saplings [that stand] like mottled ghosts" (134).
The boarding house where Byron Snopes lives is not far from Courthouse Square, but apparently on a seedy street: the yard contains tin cans, broken boxes and weeds. The house is owned by Will C. Beard, but the house is run by his wife.
Both Lucius Peabody, an old fixture in Yoknapatawpha, and Dr. Alford, a young physician new to the town, share office space here, on the second floor of a building on Courthouse Square.
The ancestral home where Horace and Narcissa live is one of the oldest houses in one of the town's oldest and most aristocratic neighborhoods. It was built in the 1840s by an English architect in what the narrator calls "the funereal light tudor which the young Victoria had sanctioned" (163). It is set well back from the street, with extensive, well-landscaped front grounds. To Horace Benbow, seeing it for the first time after experiencing the Great War in France, the house expresses "the meaning of peace" (163).
The narrator calls this "huge brick house set well up onto the street" (24) a "majestic monstrosity" (180). Built on the site of a "fine old colonial house" by "a hillman who had moved in [to Jefferson] from a small settlement called Frenchman's Bend," it is described as "an architectual garbling so imposingly terrific as to possess a kind of majesty" (24). It is built close to the street in the fashion of the country rather than the upper-class traditions of the town.
The only detail in the story that helps locate this farm is that Freeman drives past Varner's store "on the way to town" (182), which suggests it is some distance east of the Bend - that is, further away from Jefferson.
The courthouse and the Square around it are the seat of county government, so it seems safe to assume that when Bill Varner drives his daughter Eula and Flem Snopes "in to town" to get married, they end up there (166).
