Mount Olive Arkansas Map

About Mount Olive, Arkansas

Mount Olive is a locality in Poinsett County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 17. The population density is 12.2 people per km². Mount Olive is located at 36.0031°N, 92.0905°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 72386, 72727, 72556.

Mount Olive occupies a quiet stretch of land where the earth rises in subtle, ancient undulations toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Pecan Ridge. It lies 22.2 miles north-northwest of Marion, AR (from Marion, AR: bearing 327°T), and is situated 3.5 miles south of Marked Tree. The Tyronza River curves with a deliberate, sluggish grace through the low-lying plains, its dark waters reflecting the heavy, humid sky that defines these inland reaches. A few miles to the east, the Saint Francis Sunken Lands offer a sprawling sanctuary of tangled cypress and flooded timber, a vast expanse where the water claims the forest floor in a slow, perennial dialogue. When the light of dusk filters through the hardwoods, it turns the air a thick, bruised violet, settling over the fields with a weight that suggests time here moves less by the clock and more by the gradual transition of seasons.

Mount Olive remains tied to the rhythm of the soil and the persistent, quiet labor of agriculture that has sustained the families of this region for generations. While the nearby Oak Donnick Floodway manages the pulse of the seasonal rains, the local economy relies on the steady cultivation of crops that thrive in the deep, rich silt deposited by the basin’s ancient reach. Luss Lake serves as a local point of stillness, a small mirror of calm amidst the working fields where the work of the day often concludes as the cicadas begin their rhythmic, electric drone. Life in Mount Olive maintains a deliberate, unadorned character, rooted in the hard-won familiarity of neighbors who recognize the slow, seasonal shifts of the land as the true measure of their persistence.

About This Mount Olive Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Olive, Arkansas. Coordinates: 36.003119, -92.090465. 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 Mount Olive includes the ZIP code (72386, 72727, 72556), telephone area code (479, 501), county seat of Poinsett County (Harrisburg), and school district assignment (Calico Rock 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.