Monette Arkansas Map

About Monette, Arkansas

Monette is a locality in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,506. The population density is 102.8 people per km². Monette is located at 35.8906°N, 90.3443°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Monette is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 72447, 72437.

Monette anchors itself firmly upon the flat, fertile expanse of the northeastern plains, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under an expansive, heavy sky. It lies 14.4 miles southeast of Paragould, AR (from Paragould, AR: bearing 144°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west of Manila. The landscape is defined by the persistent, dark soil that characterizes this agricultural heartland, a flatness interrupted only by the distant silhouette of Black Oak Ridge to the west. Water moves with a sluggish, deliberate patience through the region, seen most plainly in the narrow, earthen course of Mud Slough Ditch, which drains the fields with a quiet, persistent gravity. In the humid stillness of a summer dusk, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, catching the dust of late-harvest tractors and casting long, sharp shadows across the grid of road and furrow.

Monette carries the quiet weight of its agrarian roots, having grown from the necessity of taming the wild, swampy timberlands into a center for cotton and grain production. The nearby Saint Francis Sunken Lands, a vast and tangled wilderness, serves as a permanent reminder of the seismic forces that once reshaped this basin, leaving behind a flooded, forested sanctuary for migrating birds. While the economy remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of planting and harvest, the local pace is dictated by the steady, mechanical hum of machinery and the seasonal turnover of the crops. Life here is measured by the changing color of the fields, from the pale green of early spring shoots to the stark, skeletal brown of winter, grounding the identity of Monette in the honest, unrelenting labor of the soil.

About This Monette Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Monette, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.890629, -90.344268. 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 Monette includes the ZIP code (72447, 72437), telephone area code (501), county seat of Craighead County (Jonesboro), and school district assignment (Buffalo Island Central 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.