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The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is a museum and Arkansas state park in Smackover, Arkansas, in the United States. The museum was formed in the 1980s to tell the history of the petroleum industry and later the brine industry as key economic movements spurred by natural resources in South Arkansas. [1]
Smackover is a small city in northern Union County, Arkansas, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population was at 1,865. According to the 2010 census, the population was at 1,865. It had a large oil boom in the 1920s, with production continuing for some time.
Arkansas Museum of Natural History Hot Springs: Garland: Ouachita Mountains: Multiple website, displays archeological and geological artifacts from Arkansas and from around the world including minerals and fossils Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources: Smackover: Union: Arkansas Timberlands: Industry - Petroleum Petroleum industry in Arkansas
Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources, Smackover, Arkansas; Northwoods Petroleum Museum, Three Lakes, Wisconsin; Past Gas & Ancient Oils Museum, Sumner, Maine; Oil and Gas Museum, Parkersburg, West Virginia; General Petroleum Museum, Seattle, Washington (1980s-2003) [2] Kansas Oil Museum, El Dorado, Kansas
The 1922 discovery of the Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizeable oil boom in southern Arkansas. [citation needed] In addition to being a petroleum reservoir, as of 2015, the brine from the Smackover Formation is the only source of commercial bromine in the United States. [4]
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia . The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1812.
The Lower Member of the Smackover Formation, of which the Brown Dense is a part, consists of organic-rich limestone, which in places contains as much as 50 feet of sandstone and 100 feet of dolomite with excellent porosity and permeability beneath parts of southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.