Cushman Arkansas Map

About Cushman, Arkansas

Cushman is a locality in Independence County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 433. The population density is 41.0 people per km². Cushman is located at 35.8658°N, 91.7781°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cushman is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 72526, 72501.

Cushman emerges from the dense, hardwood-shadowed landscape where the persistent waters of Spring Creek carve a quiet path through the limestone earth. It lies 9.5 miles northwest of Batesville, AR (from Batesville, AR: bearing 318°T), and is situated 14.1 miles north-northwest of Southside. Brooks Hill rises abruptly a mere mile to the east, its jagged silhouette often catching the bruised purple light of late afternoon, while the deeper shadows of Big Hollow hold the damp, cool air long after the sun has retreated. The ground here is thin and rocky, a testament to the ancient mineral wealth that once defined the character of the soil, leaving the woods to grow in a sparse, stubborn rhythm of oak and hickory. When the wind moves through the canopy, the leaves produce a dry, rattling sound that seems to echo the town’s own measured, deliberate pace, far removed from the frantic pulse of the modern world.

Cushman preserves the remnants of a legacy built upon the extraction of manganese, an industry that once drew laborers to these ridges to pull the dark ore from the earth. While the heavy machinery has long since fallen silent, the scars of those excavations remain as a quiet geography of craters and overgrown mounds that soften with each passing season. Today, the local economy turns on a more muted axis, with the residents looking toward the regional stability provided by the nearby Batesville North Complex for recreation and connection to the wider woods. Life here is defined by the shifting seasons of the inland plains, where the humidity of summer yields to a crisp, gray winter, and the occasional traveler moving toward the distant shores of Cedar Lake finds the rhythm of the place dictated by the slow, steady persistence of the land itself.

About This Cushman Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cushman, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.865845, -91.778094. 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 Cushman includes the ZIP code (72526, 72501), telephone area code (501), county seat of Independence County (Batesville), and school district assignment (Batesville 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.