Explore St. Joe, 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 St. Joe, 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 St. Joe.
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 | St. Joe |
| State | Arkansas (AR) |
| County | Searcy County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.030074 |
| Longitude | -92.804612 |
| Population | 129 |
| Density | 40.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 72675 |
| Area Code | 479 |
| County Seat | Marshall |
| School District | Ozark Mountain School District |
St. Joe occupies a rugged expanse of the Ozarks where the thick, verdant canopy of hardwood forests clings to the steepening slopes of Saint Joe Mountain. It lies 21.8 miles southeast of Harrison, AR (from Harrison, AR: bearing 129°T), and is situated 31.5 miles southwest of Mountain Home. The terrain here is defined by sharp limestone bluffs and tight, shadowy ravines that spill into the limestone-lined bed of Mill Creek, which carves a persistent path through the limestone bedrock nearby. As the sun dips low, the light catches the fine, dusty haze hanging over Cross Hollow, turning the atmosphere a bruised, metallic gold that softens the hard edges of the rocky outcrops. The air remains heavy with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves, a steady reminder of the ancient, slow-moving geology that dictates the shape of every path and property line in the vicinity.
St. Joe carries the quiet weight of its nineteenth-century origins, when the promise of mineral wealth drew prospectors to these hills to pull ore from the stubborn earth. While the frantic pulse of the mining era has long since faded, the local economy now reflects a quieter, more deliberate existence, tethered to the seasonal rhythms of the land and the visitors drawn to the nearby Buffalo National River. Travelers occasionally pass through, seeking the solitude of the wilderness or the expansive, still waters of Bull Shoals Lake, which remains a distant, shimmering presence to the north. Life in St. Joe moves with a deliberate, unadorned cadence, centered on the preservation of a way of life that values the heavy silence of the woods over the clamor of modernization.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Joe, Arkansas. Coordinates: 36.030074, -92.804612. 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 St. Joe includes the ZIP code (72675), telephone area code (479), county seat of Searcy County (Marshall), and school district assignment (Ozark Mountain 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. |