Halley Arkansas Map

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.

About This Halley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Halley, Arkansas. Coordinates: 33.535668, -91.324839. 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 Halley includes the ZIP code (71638), telephone area code (870), county seat of Desha County (Arkansas City), and school district assignment (Dermott 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.