Leslie Arkansas Map

About Leslie, Arkansas

Leslie is a locality in Searcy County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 375. The population density is 191.0 people per km². Leslie is located at 35.8304°N, 92.5579°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Leslie is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 72645.

Leslie occupies a rugged expanse of high ground where the earth yields to the persistent carving of Begley Creek. It lies 36.2 miles south-southwest of Mountain Home, AR (from Mountain Home, AR: bearing 196°T), and is situated 17.4 miles north-northwest of Clinton. The landscape surrounding Leslie rises into the sharp, limestone-heavy prominence of Chicken Wilson Knob, while the shadows of the afternoon stretch long and thin across the floor of Hollabaugh Hollow. Dense thickets of oak and hickory dominate the ridges, their limbs heavy with the damp, cooling breath of the hills. When the sun dips low, the air takes on a metallic clarity, turning the jagged terrain into a study of deep slate grays and muted greens, an environment indifferent to the passage of clocks or the hurried ambitions of the world beyond these woods.

Economic life in Leslie has long been tethered to the stubborn resilience of the soil and the timber that blankets the rising slopes. The history of the settlement is etched into the weathered clapboard of its older structures, remnants of a time when the railroad dictated the pulse of commerce and the movement of goods through the hollows. Today, the pace remains quiet, marked by the occasional transit of a truck or the distant lowing of cattle in the pastures that break the forest line. Travelers who seek the stillness of the wilderness often find their way toward the quiet paths of Wayside Park, or they look toward the horizon where the distant surface of Clinton Lake waits, reflecting the vast, unbroken sky of the interior country.

About This Leslie Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Leslie, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.830354, -92.55794. 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 Leslie includes the ZIP code (72645), telephone area code (479), county seat of Searcy County (Marshall), and school district assignment (Searcy County 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.