Explore Leola, 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 Leola, 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 Leola.
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 | Leola |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Grant County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.169542 |
| Longitude | -92.590993 |
| Population | 460 |
| Density | 208.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 72084 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| County Seat | Sheridan |
| School District | Sheridan School District |
Leola emerges from the thick, pine-heavy horizon of Grant County as a quiet collection of dwellings anchored to the damp, loamy earth of the Arkansas timberlands. It lies 18.4 miles southeast of Malvern, AR (from Malvern, AR: bearing 136°T), and is situated 14.4 miles southwest of Sheridan. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy of loblolly and shortleaf pines, casting long, splintered shadows across the ground where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp needles and cooling soil. Guesses Creek snakes through the landscape just a mile away, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish patience that dictates the slow drainage of the surrounding woods. Beyond the immediate thickets, the terrain remains largely flat, though the distant silhouette of Easely Mountain creates a faint, jagged ripple against the sky far to the west. To the south, the humid stillness is occasionally broken by the rustle of undergrowth near Jenkins Ferry State Park, a place where the stillness of the trees seems to hold the weight of a long-standing silence.
Leola maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of the lumber industry and the steady, unpretentious work of extraction and cultivation that has defined its existence for generations. The economy remains tethered to the harvest of the surrounding forests, a trade that leaves its mark in the weathered trucks and the constant, subtle hum of machinery that defines the morning air. Local life often drifts toward the quiet waters of Cox Creek Lake, where the surface reflects the changing seasons with a mirror-like clarity that mirrors the town’s own unassuming character. History here is not found in grand monuments but in the persistence of the families who have worked this land, their presence marked by the modest architecture and the slow, deliberate pace of daily movement. Leola feels like a place that has learned to wait, existing in a state of quiet endurance while the seasons shift and the pines continue their slow, upward climb.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Leola, Arkansas. Coordinates: 34.169542, -92.590993. 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 Leola includes the ZIP code (72084), telephone area code (870), county seat of Grant County (Sheridan), and school district assignment (Sheridan 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. |