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Halley Arkansas Map

Explore Halley, Arkansas, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Halley, Arkansas

How to Use This Halley, Arkansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Halley, Arkansas. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Arkansas or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Halley.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Halley
State	Arkansas (AR)
County	Desha County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.535668
Longitude	-91.324839
Population	44
Density	14.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	71638
Area Code	870
County Seat	Arkansas City
School District	Dermott School District

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About Halley, Arkansas

Halley is a locality in Desha County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 44. The population density is 14.9 people per km². Halley is located at 33.5357°N, 91.3248°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 71638.

Halley occupies a quiet stretch of flat, alluvial earth where the Crooked Bayou carves a sluggish, silt-heavy path through the landscape. It lies 17.5 miles west-northwest of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 300°T), and is situated 7.8 miles south-southeast of McGehee. The horizon remains stubbornly level, broken only by the distant, hazy silhouette of Backbone Ridge that haunts the western sky like a memory of higher ground. In the humid afternoons, the air grows thick and still, carrying the scent of damp loam and the heavy, sweet decay of river-fed timber. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the landscape retreats into the dense, tangled shadows of the lowlands, where the light turns a bruised, metallic gold as it filters through the canopy. Three miles out, the quietude of Wayside Park offers a reprieve from the heat, its managed green spaces standing in stark contrast to the wild, unkempt reeds that choke the water’s edge.

Halley exists as a product of the soil, a place where the economy remains tethered to the slow, seasonal turn of the plow and the harvest. The history of the settlement is written in the furrows of the surrounding acreage, where generations have labored against the weight of the humidity to pull a living from the stubborn clay. Life here follows the cadence of the seasons, dictated by the rising of the water and the ripening of the crop, far from the frantic pace of the larger world. To the north, the terrain dips toward the Panther Forest Crevasse, a reminder of the geological violence that once shaped this basin, while the stillness of Frenchie Lake provides a rare, glassy mirror for the evening sky. For those who remain, the identity of Halley is found in the persistence of the work and the profound, heavy silence that settles over the plains once the sun finally dips below the treeline.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wayside Park (State Park) — 3.4 mi, 282° W
Choctaw Island (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 068° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 329° NW
Glover Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 265° W
Cut-off Creek (State Conservation Area) — 11.2 mi, 249° W
Lake Chicot State Park (State Park) — 13.1 mi, 148° SE
Lake Village Confederate Monument (Monument) — 14.3 mi, 170° S
William Fisher Johnson (Monument) — 16.3 mi, 070° E
Greenville History Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 119° SE
E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 18.1 mi, 120° SE
Greenville Cypress Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 18.3 mi, 126° SE
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.6 mi, 356° N · 147k acres
Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.9 mi, 058° NE · 19k acres
Monticello Confederate Monument (Monument) — 28.1 mi, 284° W
University of Arkansas at Monticello Fine Arts Center (Theatre) — 28.2 mi, 278° W
Charlie Capps WMA (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 31.0 mi, 043° NE
Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum (Museum) — 37.5 mi, 067° NE
Dockery Farms (Attraction) — 42.9 mi, 072° E
Delta National Forest (National Forest) — 52.6 mi, 140° SE · 61k acres
Rice-Totten Stadium (Stadium) — 56.6 mi, 092° E
Sunflower Waterfowl Project (Nature Reserve) — 57.2 mi, 147° SE
St. Charles Museum (Museum) — 59.0 mi, 011° N
Saracen Cinema 8 (Cinema) — 59.4 mi, 322° NW
Florewood River Plantation Museum (Museum) — 62.1 mi, 090° E
Poverty Point World Heritage Site (Museum) — 62.3 mi, 184° S
Torii Hunter Baseball Complex (Stadium) — 63.6 mi, 322° NW

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