Explore Rose Bud, 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 Rose Bud, 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 Rose Bud.
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 | Rose Bud |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | White County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.321183 |
| Longitude | -92.076515 |
| Population | 494 |
| Density | 31.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 72137 |
| Area Code | 501 |
| County Seat | Searcy |
| School District | Rose Bud School District |
Rose Bud maintains a quiet posture amidst the persistent, verdant geography of the Arkansas interior. It lies 20.2 miles west-northwest of Searcy, AR (from Searcy, AR: bearing 286°T), and is situated 11.4 miles south-southwest of Heber Springs. Potter Branch carves a narrow, winding path through the landscape, its waters feeding into the low-lying terrain that surrounds the modest rise of Schoolhouse Hill. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness, often thick with the scent of damp pine needles and the iron-rich musk of soil disturbed by a sudden thunderstorm. Beyond the immediate clearings, the land descends into the shadowed, cooler depths of Starkey Hollow, where the light shifts from gold to a bruised purple as the sun retreats behind the canopy of hardwoods.
Rose Bud persists as a place where the economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the land and the small-scale commerce that sustains a rural existence. Residents look toward the waters of Greers Ferry Lake for seasonal reprieve, though the pulse of daily life remains anchored in the local rhythm of service and agriculture rather than the transient patterns of the nearby Greers Ferry Recreation Area. The history of the area is written in the stubborn endurance of its people, who have long navigated the intersection of dense timber and fertile pockets of earth. In the quiet hours of the afternoon, the clatter of a passing truck on a gravel road serves as the primary gauge of time, marking the steady, unadorned progression of a life lived far from the clamor of larger, more frantic centers.
Loading news…
Loading news-world…
Loading news-world…
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rose Bud, Arkansas. Coordinates: 35.321183, -92.076515. 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 Rose Bud includes the ZIP code (72137), telephone area code (501), county seat of White County (Searcy), and school district assignment (Rose Bud 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. |