Big Flat Arkansas Map

About Big Flat, Arkansas

Big Flat is a locality in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 88. The population density is 31.8 people per km². Big Flat is located at 36.0051°N, 92.4043°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Big Flat is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 72617.

Big Flat occupies a quiet elevation where the terrestrial architecture is defined by the steady, persistent passage of Roasting Ear Creek. It lies 22.8 miles south of Mountain Home, AR (from Mountain Home, AR: bearing 183°T), and is situated 18.6 miles west-northwest of Mountain View. This terrain is characterized by a fractured, uneven topography where the land falls away into the shadows of Vickery Hollow, creating a landscape that demands a measured pace from those who traverse it. The light here clings to the limestone outcroppings during the late afternoon, turning the rough, gray stone into a pale, glowing substance that seems to hold the warmth of the sun long after the heat has retreated from the valley floor. Massive stands of hardwood and pine dominate the horizon, their branches swaying in the heavy, humid air that settles over the region, marking the boundary between the cultivated clearings and the wild, untamed reaches of the Sylamore Wildlife Management Area.

Agriculture and timber have long dictated the rhythm of Big Flat, grounding the local economy in the tangible labor of extracting resources from the stubborn, rocky soil. The history of the settlement is a quiet one, written not in grand monuments but in the endurance of families who learned to navigate the seasonal flux of the creek and the dense, encroaching forest. While the distant, shimmering expanse of Norfork Lake offers a reprieve for those seeking the water, the daily life of Big Flat remains anchored to the immediate, wooded ridges where the silence is broken only by the movement of wildlife or the distant hum of a truck on a gravel road. It is a place of deliberate isolation, where the complexity of the world is filtered through the thick canopy of trees, leaving the residents to cultivate a life that values the slow, circular habits of a countryside governed by the turning of the seasons.

About This Big Flat Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Big Flat, Arkansas. Coordinates: 36.005073, -92.404326. 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 Big Flat includes the ZIP code (72617), telephone area code (479), county seat of Baxter County (Mountain Home), and school district assignment (Mountain View 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.