Gum Springs Arkansas Map

About Gum Springs, Arkansas

Gum Springs is a locality in Cleveland County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 91. The population density is 89.9 people per km². Gum Springs is located at 34.0639°N, 93.0957°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gum Springs is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 72641, 71665, 72209.

Gum Springs unfolds across a landscape of pine and hardwood timber, where the earth hums with the quiet vitality of a humid, inland basin. It lies 23.2 miles southwest of Pine Bluff, AR (from Pine Bluff, AR: bearing 222°T), and is situated 13.9 miles northeast of Fordyce. The Saline River carves a serpentine path through the low-lying terrain, its dark, slow-moving waters providing a constant, rhythmic pulse to the damp soil of the surrounding woods. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy in shifting patterns of amber and lime, settling upon the floor of the forest where the scent of decomposing leaves and rain-soaked earth hangs heavy in the air. While Gum Springs Hill rises in the distant, hazy blue of the horizon, the immediate vicinity remains a patchwork of pastoral clearings and dense thickets, creating a horizon that feels intimate and sheltered from the wider world.

History in Gum Springs lingers in the quiet persistence of its people, who have long looked to the fertile soil and the timber industry to sustain the daily cadence of their lives. The economy remains tethered to the natural resources of the region, where the labor of the hands and the steady growth of the forest define the measure of a season. Residents often find respite in the stillness of Wilson Lake, a mirror for the sky situated only a short distance away, or seek the open, managed spaces of Wayside Park to witness the changing colors of the dogwood and redbud blooms. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the river, marked by a vernacular that carries the warmth of the deep inland south and a profound connection to the land that has supported generations of families.

About This Gum Springs Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gum Springs, Arkansas. Coordinates: 34.063937, -93.095709. 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 Gum Springs includes the ZIP code (72641, 71665, 72209), telephone area code (501, 870), county seat of Cleveland County (Rison), and school district assignment (Arkadelphia 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.