Ashdown Arkansas Map

About Ashdown, Arkansas

Ashdown is a locality in Little River County, Arkansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,261. The population density is 230.5 people per km². Ashdown is located at 33.6743°N, 94.1313°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ashdown is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71822.

Ashdown emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed horizon of southwestern Arkansas as a place defined by the steady, persistent flow of Hurricane Creek, which carves its path through the low-lying timberlands. It lies 16.9 miles north-northwest of Texarkana, AR (from Texarkana, AR: bearing 341°T), and is situated 17.2 miles north of Wake Village. The landscape here is one of quiet transition, where the flat, fertile earth of the plains meets the encroaching influence of the distant Devils Backbone, visible as a faint, serrated bruise against the western sky. In the humid heat of mid-afternoon, the air holds a heavy, resinous scent of pine needles baking on the forest floor, and the light settles into a thick, golden clarity that softens the edges of the hardwoods. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape opens into the expansive terrain of Gum Flats, where the ground levels out into a wide, unassuming basin that reflects the vastness of the sky.

Ashdown carries the weight of a working history, its economic pulse tied firmly to the timber mills and industrial infrastructure that have long anchored the labor of its people. The presence of the SW Arkansas W D Holding Basin provides a necessary, man-made stillness to the surrounding woods, while the nearby Millwood Recreation Area offers a reprieve for those seeking the stillness of the deep timber. Life in Ashdown moves with the deliberate pace of a shift change, marked by the rhythmic movement of heavy machinery and the enduring presence of the rail lines that slice through the center of the grid. There is a distinct, unadorned honesty in the way the local streets intersect with the surrounding wilderness, a testament to a place that prioritizes the steady harvest of the land over the clamor of wider, more frantic worlds.

About This Ashdown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ashdown, Arkansas. Coordinates: 33.674287, -94.131305. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Ashdown includes the ZIP code (71822), telephone area code (870), county seat of Little River County (Ashdown), and school district assignment (Ashdown School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.