Fox Arkansas Map

About Fox, Arkansas

Fox is a locality in Stone County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 237. The population density is 16.8 people per km². Fox is located at 35.7915°N, 92.2977°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 72051.

Fox occupies a quiet span of terrain where the landscape rises in disciplined, timbered slopes toward the looming silhouette of Johnson Ridge. It lies 36.8 miles west of Batesville, AR (from Batesville, AR: bearing 273°T), and is situated 11.4 miles west-southwest of Mountain View. The character of Fox is defined by the persistent, winding path of Tick Creek, which cuts through the limestone bedrock and feeds into the verdant, shadowed expanse of Ives Hollow. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate the earth; it filters through the dense canopy of hardwoods and pines, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch across the forest floor as evening approaches. The air often holds a heavy, damp stillness, carrying the scent of damp loam and the faint, metallic tang of the surrounding hills, while the distant, plummeting water of Bear Pen Falls provides a perpetual, low-frequency hum that anchors the silence of the woods.

History in Fox is written in the slow accretion of land-clearing and the steady labor of those who turned the stubborn soil to sustain a modest agrarian existence. The local economy has long leaned on the rhythms of timber and small-scale livestock, reflecting a culture that values self-reliance and the patient work of the seasons over the frantic pulse of the modern world. Life remains tethered to the land’s capacity, with the occasional traveler venturing toward the recreation offered by Greers Ferry Lake, yet the core of the locality remains insulated from the reach of wider industry. There is a distinct, unhurried gravity to the days in Fox, where the passage of time is measured less by the clock and more by the way the light shifts across the ridge or the seasonal swelling of the creek beds after a heavy rain.

About This Fox Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fox, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.791465, -92.297656. 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 Fox includes the ZIP code (72051), telephone area code (870), county seat of Stone County (Mountain View), and school district assignment (Mountain View 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.