Explore Palestine, 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 Palestine, 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 Palestine.
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 | Palestine |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Randolph County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.970307 |
| Longitude | -90.908225 |
| Population | 506 |
| Density | 59.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 72455, 72372 |
| Area Code | 501 |
| County Seat | Pocahontas |
| School District | Palestine-Wheatley School District |
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.
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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).
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. |