Explore Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant.
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 | Mount Pleasant |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Fulton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.981423 |
| Longitude | -91.777383 |
| Population | 353 |
| Density | 38.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 71854, 71860, 72561 |
| Area Code | 870, 501 |
| County Seat | Salem |
| School District | Melbourne School District |
Mount Pleasant emerges from the landscape as a quiet intersection of limestone ridges and dense, verdant woodlands where the Markleroad Creek carves a persistent path through the earth. It lies 28.0 miles east of Mountain Home, AR (from Mountain Home, AR: bearing 96°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west-northwest of Horseshoe Bend. The air here holds the heavy, sweet scent of damp pine needles and turning leaves, a stillness that seems to gather in the low-lying shadows as the sun retreats behind the distant, hazy silhouette of Brushy Ridge. Water moves with a deliberate, muddy grace through the creek bed, reflecting the shifting colors of the canopy above and grounding the physical character of the land in a slow, rhythmic cycle of erosion and growth. Beyond the immediate timber, the terrain opens into subtle depressions like Wheeler Hollow, where the light at dusk settles in thin, golden ribbons against the slopes, softening the rugged edges of the Arkansas interior.
Agriculture and the steady labor of the soil define the pulse of Mount Pleasant, echoing the industrious spirit of those who first cleared these timbered tracts to build a life in the interior. Commerce remains tied to the land, shaped by a local economy that values the harvest and the timber trade, while the collective memory of the residents remains tethered to the quietude of places like Spiritual Development Lake. On weekends, the rhythm of life slows further, drawing families toward the trails and shaded clearings of Wayside Park to witness the changing seasons. Nothing about the pace here feels rushed or performed; it is a life lived in the margins of the forest, where the hum of the modern world fades against the enduring, grounded reality of the woods and the persistent flow of local water.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Pleasant, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.981423, -91.777383. 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 Pleasant includes the ZIP code (71854, 71860, 72561), telephone area code (870, 501), county seat of Fulton County (Salem), and school district assignment (Melbourne 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. |