Explore Bismarck, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bismarck, 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 Bismarck.
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 | Bismarck |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Hot Spring County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.316204 |
| Longitude | -93.170734 |
| Population | 229 |
| Density | 60.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 71929 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| County Seat | Malvern |
| School District | Bismarck Public Schools |
Bismarck emerges from the dense, tangled undergrowth of the Ouachita foothills where the air holds a permanent, humid stillness and the soil is stained a deep, iron-rich red. It lies 14.5 miles south-southwest of Hot Springs, AR (from Hot Springs, AR: bearing 207°T), and is situated 8.6 miles south-southwest of Lake Hamilton. Beyond the immediate clearings, the land transitions into a rugged topography of pine and hardwood forests, where Big Hill Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the limestone bedrock. To the west, the silhouettes of Emory Mill Mountain rise against the horizon like a jagged promise, grounding the vast, hazy sky. The light at dusk here possesses a particular, heavy clarity, turning the canopy of oak into dark, velvet monoliths that seem to absorb the very sound of the wind, leaving the terrain in a state of watchful, ancient suspension.
Bismarck retains the quiet, deliberate pace of a place built upon the rhythms of the earth rather than the frantic pulse of the machine. The local economy finds its anchor in the quiet stewardship of the land and the recreational pull of De Gray Lake, where the water mirrors the shifting clouds and provides a focal point for those seeking respite from the summer heat. Visitors and residents alike gravitate toward DeGray Lake, a REC, to witness the interplay of seasonal migration and the slow, persistent reclamation of the woods. History is not written in grand monuments here, but in the persistent survival of small-scale agriculture and the collective memory of the families who have long worked these slopes, finding a modest, enduring prosperity in the quiet intersection of timber, water, and the steady turning of the seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bismarck, Arkansas. Coordinates: 34.316204, -93.170734. 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 Bismarck includes the ZIP code (71929), telephone area code (870), county seat of Hot Spring County (Malvern), and school district assignment (Bismarck Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |