Hughes Arkansas Map

About Hughes, Arkansas

Hughes is a locality in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,056. The population density is 180.2 people per km². Hughes is located at 34.9493°N, 90.4715°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hughes is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 72348.

Hughes defines the flat, fertile expanse of the Arkansas delta, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a heavy, humid sky. It lies 18.5 miles east-southeast of Forrest City, AR (from Forrest City, AR: bearing 103°T), and is situated 10.5 miles northwest of Tunica Resorts. The landscape around Hughes is defined by an absolute, geometric flatness, broken only by the thin vertical silhouettes of grain elevators and the occasional stand of hardwood timber. To the east, the moisture-laden air cools slightly toward the basin of Buck Island Number 53, while the dark, nutrient-rich soil keeps the earth perpetually hungry for the plow. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate; it presses against the fields, turning the late afternoon haze into a pale, bruised gold that clings to the stalks of cotton and soybean long after the machinery has gone silent.

Agriculture forms the singular pulse of the local economy, a cycle of sowing and reaping that dictates the tempo of life in Hughes. The proximity of Fifteenmile Bayou and the quiet stillness of Millseed Lake provide a necessary hydration to the vast, industrialized farmland that sustains the region. While the distant, hazy silhouette of Skidmore Ridge remains a mere suggestion on the far western edge of the world, the immediate reality for those living here is the stewardship of the land and the quiet maintenance of the infrastructure managed by the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ar. History remains embedded in the very dirt, where the labor of generations has carved out a life from the silt, leaving behind a place that feels less like a collection of streets and more like a permanent, patient engagement with the harvest.

About This Hughes Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hughes, Arkansas. Coordinates: 34.949261, -90.47149. 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 Hughes includes the ZIP code (72348), telephone area code (501), county seat of St. Francis County (Forrest City), and school district assignment (West Memphis 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.