Huntington Arkansas Map

About Huntington, Arkansas

Huntington is a locality in Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 490. The population density is 280.7 people per km². Huntington is located at 35.0823°N, 94.2633°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Huntington is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 72940.

Huntington sprawls across the rugged terrain where the persistent flow of Cherokee Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the landscape. It lies 22.3 miles south-southeast of Fort Smith, AR (from Fort Smith, AR: bearing 160°T), and is situated 9.2 miles south of Greenwood. The earth here is heavy with clay and iron, grounding the outskirts of the town against the looming shadow of Coop Ridge, which rises four miles to the south to fracture the horizon. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land rises into dense thickets of hardwood and pine, eventually merging into the expansive, timbered reaches of the Ouachita National Forest. At dusk, the light catches the sediment in the water, turning the creek into a ribbon of tarnished copper that snakes through the valley floor. Only two miles to the west, the surface of Mansfield Lake remains undisturbed, reflecting the gray, gathering clouds in a silence that seems to belong to another century.

Huntington carries the weight of a coal-mining heritage that once dictated the pulse of every home and storefront. The industry that formerly defined the local economy has long since receded, leaving behind a quietude that settles over the streets like dust after a long drought. Where locomotives once hauled black rock from the deep veins of the earth, the pace of life now conforms to the slow turning of the seasons and the cycle of the forest. The people remain, moving through their days with a steady, deliberate grace, their lives shaped by the same limestone and shale that once drew the world to this corner of the state. Even in the stillness of the modern day, the memory of the mines lingers in the architecture and the local vernacular, a testament to a time when the labor of the earth provided the singular rhythm for all who dwelled here.

About This Huntington Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Huntington, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.082318, -94.263267. 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 Huntington includes the ZIP code (72940), telephone area code (479), county seat of Sebastian County (Fort Smith), and school district assignment (Mansfield 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.