Evening Shade Arkansas Map

About Evening Shade, Arkansas

Evening Shade is a locality in Scott County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 420. The population density is 97.3 people per km². Evening Shade is located at 36.0699°N, 91.6219°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Evening Shade is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 71801, 72958, 72532.

Evening Shade holds a quiet stillness where the Russell Branch carves a narrow, persistent path through the earth, marking the land with its steady, translucent flow. It lies 33.6 miles south-southeast of Fort Smith, AR (from Fort Smith, AR: bearing 154°T), and is situated 4.4 miles northwest of Waldron. The horizon toward the distance is defined by the silhouette of Square Rock Ridge, a rugged spine that keeps watch over the dense, encroaching timber of the Ouachita National Forest. Here, the air carries the scent of damp pine needles and the sharp, mineral tang of limestone, particularly as the light fails and the shadows stretch long across the broken terrain. To the west, the water of Lake Waldron rests in a hollow, its surface mirroring the shifting greys of the sky while the land undulates in a series of wooded ridges and deep, shadowed ravines that pull at the hem of the forest floor.

Generations have built their lives in Evening Shade by working the timber and the soil, finding a rhythm that bends to the slow turning of the seasons rather than the urgency of a clock. The local economy persists in the quiet industry of agriculture and the maintenance of a rural way of life, where the vernacular remains as unhurried as the current of the Russell Branch. History here is kept not in monuments, but in the enduring patterns of the homesteads and the way the encroaching canopy of the Ouachita National Forest slowly reclaims the margins of old clearings. Even as the modern world brushes against the periphery, Evening Shade retains a distinct, deliberate character, grounded in the hard work of those who recognize the value of a life spent close to the ridges and the deep, silent woods.

About This Evening Shade Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Evening Shade, Arkansas. Coordinates: 36.069933, -91.621881. 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 Evening Shade includes the ZIP code (71801, 72958, 72532), telephone area code (479, 501), county seat of Scott County (Waldron), and school district assignment (Cave City 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.