Palestine Arkansas Map

About Palestine, Arkansas

Palestine is a locality in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 506. The population density is 59.1 people per km². Palestine is located at 34.9703°N, 90.9082°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Palestine is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 72455, 72372.

Palestine sits upon a flat, open expanse of the Arkansas landscape where the horizon stretches wide and undisturbed. It lies 38.4 miles northwest of Paragould, AR (from Paragould, AR: bearing 312°T), and is situated 12.0 miles north of Pocahontas. Shaver Creek traces a slow, meandering path through the earth, cutting quietly through the fields as it carries the runoff of the plains toward the low-lying basin of Niccum Hollow. To the north, the distant outline of Tyer Ridge rises in a muted, hazy violet against the sky, grounding the otherwise level topography. The air here holds the heavy, humid stillness of the interior, and at dusk, the light turns a deep, bruised gold that settles over the Fourche Creek Site 17 Reservoir, casting long shadows across the water’s edge. Within the Robert Hankins/mud Creek Wildlife Demonstration Area, the scrub and brush stand in a rigid, quiet vigil, marking a terrain that feels ancient in its slow, methodical drainage and its persistent, sun-baked resilience.

Palestine remains a place defined by the rhythm of the soil and the quiet labor of the fields that have long anchored the local economy. The history of the land is written in the furrows of the earth, where agriculture dictates the cycle of the seasons and the movement of the people who reside here. While the bustle of larger hubs stays far removed, life in Palestine moves with a deliberate, singular purpose, centered on the cultivation of the surrounding acreage and the maintenance of the rural infrastructure. The quietude of the surroundings is rarely broken, save for the hum of machinery or the shifting of winds across the open pasture. It is a location where the character of the inhabitants is mirrored in the land itself—steady, unadorned, and deeply connected to the geography that provides their livelihood and their sense of place.

About This Palestine Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Palestine, Arkansas. Coordinates: 34.970307, -90.908225. 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 Palestine includes the ZIP code (72455, 72372), telephone area code (501), county seat of Randolph County (Pocahontas), and school district assignment (Palestine-Wheatley 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.