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Ark-La-Tex. The Ark-La-Tex (a portmanteau of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; also stylized as Arklatex or ArkLaTex) is a socio-economic tri-state region where the Southern U.S. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas join together. [ 1] The region contains portions of Northwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas, and South Arkansas as well as the ...
Arkansas. Arkansas ( / ˈɑːrkənsɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw[ c]) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. [ 9][ 10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language ...
Texarkana is located at the junction of Interstate 30 and US highways 59, 67, 71 and 82 in extreme northeastern Texas on the Texas-Arkansas border, [9] at (33.437170, –94.067394 It is bordered by the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, to the east, and by the smaller cities of Nash , Wake Village and Liberty Eylau , Texas to the west.
Point bars, abandoned meander loops, oxbow lakes in Lafayette and Miller counties, Arkansas State Highway No. 78 Bridge at the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas, photographed on the Oklahoma side Crossing the Red River at the Texas–Oklahoma border from I-35 The Red River took a new channel near Natchitoches, Louisiana, and left behind Cane ...
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas River Valley. The headwaters derive from the snowpack in the Sawatch and Mosquito ...
40,619,450. • Density. 91/sq mi (35/km 2) The West South Central states, colloquially known as the South Central states, is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as covering four states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The West South Central or South Central region is located within the Southern United ...
The United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border. [ 1][ 2] The stated primary purpose of these inspection stations is to deter illegal immigration and smuggling activities. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, they took on the additional role ...
Efforts by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stem a record number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has set off a series of legal battles with the administration of ...