Pencil Bluff, AR

Pencil Bluff is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Arkansas, located northwest of Mount Ida in the Ouachita Mountains. First listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 72, the settlement maintains a post office with ZIP code 71965. Journalism Pulitzer Prize winner Ginny Monk is a native of Pencil Bluff.