- Muskogee Gap and Pound Gap redirect to this entry.
Cane Hill Gap is the low spot between Kessler Mountain to the south and Millsap Mountain to the north. Transportation routes have consistently used the gap, which leads toward Farmington, Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, the western part of Washington County and Oklahoma.
Old Farmington Road and the Ozark & Cherokee Central Railway are the two primary historic routes through the gap, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and U.S. Highway 62 are the two primary motor vehicle routes that run through the gap today.
Farmington Branch runs west through the western half of the gap, eventually joining the Illinois River. At least one or two geologists have wondered aloud whether the West Fork of the White River flowed that direction once upon a time in a past eon, helping create the gap before tablelands shifted.
Marion Tebbetts Banes mentions the name of the gap in her memoir. It has also been referenced as the Muskogee Gap, probably as a result of the Ozark & Cherokee Central Railway, which ran from Fayetteville to Muskogee and beyond.
And at least one local historian had heard it referenced as Pound Gap, although the origin of that name is unknown.