Ivan Arkansas Map

About Ivan, Arkansas

Ivan is a locality in Dallas County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 135. The population density is 13.6 people per km². Ivan is located at 33.9020°N, 92.4332°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 71748.

Ivan emerges from the flat, heavy clay of the lowlands, where Guice Creek carves a persistent, muddy path through the dense thickets of pine and scrub oak. It lies 32.6 miles southwest of Pine Bluff, AR (from Pine Bluff, AR: bearing 228°T), and is situated 6.8 miles north of Fordyce. The light here clings to the earth at dusk, thickening into a humid, golden amber that turns the shadows of the hardwood stands into long, bruised fingers reaching across the fields. Four miles away, the surface of Kervin Lake Number One remains undisturbed, a mirror for the heat-hazed sky that seems to hold the silence of the surrounding woods in its dark, still center. The air carries the scent of damp loam and pine resin, a fragrance that defines the slow, patient reclamation of the landscape by the creeping vines and tangled brush.

Ivan retains a quiet, agrarian pulse, shaped by the cyclical demands of the soil and the modest industry of the timber tracts that define the local economy. A mile away, Wayside Park offers a brief respite of manicured green, a small coordinate of order against the sprawling, unkempt vitality of the brush. Life in Ivan moves with the deliberate tempo of a place where the seasons dictate the labor, and the history of the families here is written in the maintenance of fences and the steady, rhythmic clearing of the land. There is a singular beauty in the way the morning mist clings to the banks of Guice Creek, obscuring the horizon until the sun burns through, revealing a world that asks for little and offers the quiet endurance of the Arkansas plains in return.

About This Ivan Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ivan, Arkansas. Coordinates: 33.901968, -92.433196. 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 Ivan includes the ZIP code (71748), telephone area code (870), county seat of Dallas County (Fordyce), and school district assignment (Fordyce 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.