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Arkansas Physical Map

Arkansas is one of only two states with two distinct mountain ranges — the Ozarks and the Ouachitas — separated by a river valley.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Magazine Mountain

2,753 ft

Lowest Point

Ouachita River

55 ft

Arkansas physical map showing the Ozark Mountains, Ouachita Mountains, and Mississippi Alluvial Plain, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Arkansas terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Arkansas physical map, labeled: the Ozark Mountains, Ouachita Mountains, and Mississippi Alluvial Plain, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Arkansas blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Arkansas physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Arkansas relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Arkansas relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Arkansas relief wall art

Arkansas on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Arkansas

Arkansas has highlands in the northwest and lowlands in the southeast. The Ozark Plateau, including the Boston Mountains, fills the north. The Arkansas River Valley separates it from the Ouachita Mountains, whose ridges run east to west. Magazine Mountain, the highest point, stands in the valley between them. The east is the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain, broken only by the narrow rise of Crowley’s Ridge, and the south is the rolling West Gulf Coastal Plain.

Major rivers

  • Arkansas
  • Mississippi
  • White
  • Ouachita
  • Red
  • St. Francis

Find it on the map

  • The east-west ridges of the Ouachita Mountains
  • The Arkansas River Valley between the two highlands
  • Crowley’s Ridge, a thin line of higher ground in the flat east
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Arkansas physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Arkansas political map

The blank outline version of Arkansas (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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