Elaine Arkansas Map

About Elaine, Arkansas

Elaine is a locality in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 487. The population density is 388.7 people per km². Elaine is located at 34.3084°N, 90.8521°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 72389.

Elaine rests in the lowlands of Phillips County, a place where the land itself seems to sigh with the humidity of the Mississippi Delta. It lies 63.2 miles north of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 11°T), and is situated 17.7 miles west-north-west of Clarksdale. The terrain here is flat, almost impossibly so, stretching out under a vast sky that can shift from a pale, washed-out blue to a bruised, stormy gray with startling speed. Fields of cotton, their bolls still white promises against the deep green stalks, dominate the immediate landscape, broken only by the occasional stand of somber cypress trees dripping Spanish moss from their gnarled branches. The air, especially as dusk begins to settle, carries the rich, earthy scent of damp soil and the faint, sweet perfume of distant honeysuckle, a fragrance that clings to everything. The roads, often unpaved and rutted, wind their way between these agricultural expanses, leading to clusters of houses that seem to have grown organically from the rich, dark earth. The history of Elaine is deeply intertwined with the cultivation of the land, particularly cotton, a crop that shaped its economy and, in more turbulent times, its social fabric. The echoes of sharecropping and the enduring legacy of agricultural labor are palpable in the quiet persistence of its people. While specific industries have ebbed and flowed, the enduring character of Elaine remains tied to the rhythm of the planting and harvesting seasons. The nearby waterways, tributaries of the mighty Mississippi, have always been both a source of life and a conduit for commerce, though their presence is more felt in the pervasive moisture and the occasional glint of sunlight on a distant channel than in grand promenades. The distinctive quietude of Elaine is not an emptiness, but a fullness of lived experience, where the past is a constant, if unspoken, companion to the present.

About This Elaine Map Page

This page provides an interactive Google map of Elaine, Arkansas with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Elaine and Phillips County.

Detailed location data for Elaine includes the ZIP code (72333), telephone area code (225), county seat of Phillips County (Helena-West Helena), and school district assignment (Marvell School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Elaine is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.