Explore Hensley, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hensley, 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 Hensley.
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 | Hensley |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Pulaski County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.505372 |
| Longitude | -92.205704 |
| Population | 137 |
| Density | 51.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 72065 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| County Seat | Little Rock |
| School District | Pulaski County Special School District |
Hensley sits amidst a landscape defined by the persistent, dark currents of the Campbell Bayou, which snakes through the flat, fertile earth like a vein of ink. It lies 17.3 miles east-southeast of Bryant, AR (from Bryant, AR: bearing 111°T), and is situated 8.3 miles east-southeast of East End. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that seems to press against the towering pines and dense hardwoods, their shadows deepening as the sun dips behind the distant, hazy silhouette of Counterfeit Ridge. Only a mile away, the quiet surface of Gropper Lake mirrors the sky, its edges fringed with tall, unkempt grasses that sway in the slow shifts of the afternoon breeze. When the light fades, the land settles into a muted, earthy gray, grounding the horizon in a way that makes the vast, open fields feel both expansive and intensely private.
Hensley draws its character from the cycles of the soil and the quiet labor of those who have long worked the surrounding acreage. The rhythm of the days is measured by the seasonal demands of agriculture and the maintenance of local routes, a pace that remains largely indifferent to the frantic noise of the wider world. Residents might spend their weekends venturing toward the Pool 5 (Ark. Rv) Recreation Area, where the water and timber offer a brief respite from the sun-drenched fields. Life in Hensley moves with a deliberate, steady gravity, shaped by the proximity of the bayou and the enduring reality of the land, where the weight of the past is felt not in monuments, but in the recurring work of the harvest and the persistent, slow growth of the forest.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hensley, Arkansas. Coordinates: 34.505372, -92.205704. 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 Hensley includes the ZIP code (72065), telephone area code (870), county seat of Pulaski County (Little Rock), and school district assignment (Pulaski County Special School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |