Explore Bull Shoals, 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 Bull Shoals, 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 Bull Shoals.
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 | Bull Shoals |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Marion County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.37357 |
| Longitude | -92.591504 |
| Population | 1,952 |
| Density | 153.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 72619 |
| Area Code | 479 |
| County Seat | Yellville |
| School District | Flippin School District |
Bull Shoals defines the rugged transition where the Ozark plateau fractures into deep, timbered limestone ravines. It lies 11.4 miles west-northwest of Mountain Home, AR (from Mountain Home, AR: bearing 287°T), and is situated 31.2 miles east-northeast of Harrison. Bull Shoals Lake stretches across the northern boundary, its fingers of water carving erratic, jagged inlets into the surrounding bedrock, while the incline of Bull Shoals Mountain rises as a silent, forested sentinel to the south. The landscape is dominated by dense hardwood stands that turn a bruised, rusted orange in the autumn, and the air here carries a persistent dampness that clings to the limestone bluffs. Beyond the immediate banks of the lake, the terrain levels out briefly toward the verdant, low-lying expanse of Trimble Flat, where the soil holds the heavy, dark promise of the river bottoms.
Bull Shoals emerged from the massive engineering labor required to dam the White River, an act that permanently altered the local topography and tethered the economy to the rhythms of the water. This history of industrial transformation lingers in the town, where the daily pace is dictated by the seasonal fluctuations of the reservoir and the quiet, steady flow of the White River nearby. Visitors often gravitate toward the Bull Shoals Recreation Area to witness the convergence of managed land and wild water, finding a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic output of larger centers. The economy remains tethered to this natural abundance, drawing those who appreciate the solitude of the woods and the slow, deliberate movement of life in a place where the horizon is measured in layers of blue-tinted ridges.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bull Shoals, Arkansas. Coordinates: 36.37357, -92.591504. 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 Bull Shoals includes the ZIP code (72619), telephone area code (479), county seat of Marion County (Yellville), and school district assignment (Flippin School District).
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. |