Pleasant Grove Arkansas Map

About Pleasant Grove, Arkansas

Pleasant Grove is a locality in Union County, Arkansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 235. The population density is 32.2 people per km². Pleasant Grove is located at 35.8205°N, 91.9070°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 72030, 72405, 72112.

Pleasant Grove holds the stillness of the Arkansas interior, where the land unfolds in quiet, persistent swells of earth and timber. It lies 10.2 miles southeast of El Dorado, AR (from El Dorado, AR: bearing 139°T), and is situated 34.2 miles west of Crossett. The light at dusk here possesses a particular amber density, catching the edges of loblolly pines and casting long, bruised shadows across the forest floor. Two miles away, the sluggish, dark waters of Bayou de Loutre carve a slow path through the terrain, providing a constant, if muted, pulse to the landscape. While the distant silhouette of Big Swamp Ridge marks the horizon like a jagged spine, the immediate surroundings favor the modest intimacy of thick woods and tangled underbrush. Farther out, the surface of Lake Wingfield Number Three mirrors the sky, a solitary expanse of water that anchors the surrounding quietude.

Pleasant Grove emerged from a tradition of agrarian resilience, its history etched into the cycles of seasonal planting and the labor of those who worked the soil. The economy remains rooted in the land, defined by the steady, patient work of forestry and small-scale agriculture that shapes the daily rhythm of the local inhabitants. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that measures time by the changing canopy rather than the clock, a quality most evident in the protected acres of the Bayou D'loutre SCA. There is a distinct, unadorned honesty to the way the days pass in Pleasant Grove, where the air smells of damp pine needles and turned earth, and the social fabric is held together by the simple, enduring connections of long-standing neighbors.

About This Pleasant Grove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pleasant Grove, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.820465, -91.906976. 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 Pleasant Grove includes the ZIP code (72030, 72405, 72112), telephone area code (501), county seat of Union County (El Dorado), and school district assignment (Mountain View 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.