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Arkansas City Arkansas Map

Explore Arkansas City, Arkansas, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Arkansas City, Arkansas

How to Use This Arkansas City, Arkansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Arkansas City, Arkansas. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Arkansas or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Arkansas City.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Arkansas City
State	Arkansas (AR)
County	Desha County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.608722
Longitude	-91.206779
Population	376
Density	295.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	71630
Area Code	870
County Seat	Arkansas City
School District	McGehee School District

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About Arkansas City, Arkansas

Arkansas City is a locality in Desha County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 376. The population density is 295.1 people per km². Arkansas City is located at 33.6087°N, 91.2068°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Arkansas City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71630.

Arkansas City reveals itself as a low-slung expanse of alluvial earth where the heavy, humid air clings to the skin like a damp woolen blanket. It lies 16.1 miles north-northwest of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 329°T), and is situated 11.2 miles east of McGehee. The horizon remains stubbornly flat, a vast theater for the shifting, bruised purples of dusk that settle over the fields long before the sun fully retreats. To the west, the faint, hazy suggestion of Egypt Ridge interrupts the skyline, while the immediate landscape is defined by the dense, tangled undergrowth of Choctaw Island that anchors the edge of the land. Nearby, the stillness of Kate Adams Lake reflects the heavy boughs of ancient oaks, and the persistent, sluggish pull of Chicot Bayou carves a dark, winding vein through the silt-rich soil, feeding the quietude of this inland reach.

Arkansas City lingers in the shadow of a grander, more frantic era, its streets echoing with the ghosts of a thriving river commerce that once dictated the pulse of the entire region. The economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons, where the cultivation of crops provides the primary rhythm for those who remain. Modern life here exists in a state of suspended animation, far removed from the frantic pace of the Delta Experimental Forest, which stands as a distant, silent guardian of the wilder timberlands. Life in Arkansas City moves with the heavy, measured cadence of the soil itself, a place where the weight of history is felt not in monuments, but in the enduring, patient labor of the people who continue to work this fertile, unyielding ground.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Choctaw Island (State Conservation Area) — 0.4 mi, 155° SE
William Fisher Johnson (Monument) — 8.5 mi, 086° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 9.6 mi, 269° W
Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.5 mi, 061° NE · 19k acres
Greenville History Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 148° SE
Lake Chicot State Park (State Park) — 16.1 mi, 179° S
E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 16.7 mi, 148° SE
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.5 mi, 332° NW · 147k acres
Greenville Cypress Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 17.8 mi, 154° SE
Great River Road State Park (State Park) — 18.1 mi, 030° NE
Delta Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 18.6 mi, 124° SE
Cut-off Creek (State Conservation Area) — 19.5 mi, 242° SW
Lake Village Confederate Monument (Monument) — 19.6 mi, 193° S
Charlie Capps (State Recreation Area) — 23.1 mi, 039° NE
Charley Patton (Monument) — 28.2 mi, 113° SE
Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum (Museum) — 29.3 mi, 071° E
Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge.Proposed Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 34.4 mi, 010° N · 945 acres
University of Arkansas at Monticello Fine Arts Center (Theatre) — 34.8 mi, 268° W
Dockery Farms (Attraction) — 35.0 mi, 076° E
Rice-Totten Stadium (Stadium) — 50.2 mi, 098° E
Delta National Forest (National Forest) — 52.8 mi, 149° SE · 61k acres
St. Charles Museum (Museum) — 53.1 mi, 004° N
Florewood River Plantation Museum (Museum) — 55.6 mi, 096° E
Museum of the Mississippi Delta (Museum) — 57.6 mi, 095° E
Sunflower Waterfowl Project (Nature Reserve) — 58.3 mi, 155° SE
Saracen Cinema 8 (Cinema) — 60.2 mi, 314° NW
Torii Hunter Baseball Complex (Stadium) — 64.4 mi, 314° NW
Father Pere Marquette Statue (Public Artwork) — 72.6 mi, 028° NE
Battery B (Historic Ruins) — 72.7 mi, 029° NE

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