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Arkansas City (/ ˈ ɑːr k ən s ɔː /) is a town in Desha County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 376 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ] The town is the county seat of Desha County. [ 4 ]
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
The name of this city is not pronounced like the nearby state of Arkansas, but rather as / ɑːr ˈ k æ n z ə s / (the final "s" is pronounced, and it rhymes with Kansas). [6] Over the years there has been much confusion about the regional pronunciation of "Arkansas", which locals render as / ɑːr ˈ k æ n z ə s / rather than / ˈ ɑːr k ən s ɔː /. [7]
The unprecedented 1842 extradition of Nelson Hackett from Canada on a theft charge sparked an uproar in the British colony, The post Arkansas city honors enslaved man who fled to Canada and was ...
Forrest City is a city in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States, and the county seat. [3] It was named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest , a notable Confederate war hero who later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan .
The Arkansas City Commercial Historic District is a 21 acres (8.5 ha) historic district at Summit St. and 5th Ave. in Arkansas City, Kansas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It included 58 contributing buildings. [1] It includes Classical Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne architecture. [2]
The city proper had a population of 54,164 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the ninth-most populous city in Arkansas. It is one of the four main cities in the three-county Northwest Arkansas metropolitan area, with 546,725 residents in 2020. The city is the birthplace and headquarters of Walmart, the world's largest retailer. [6]
The Arkansas City High School was a comprehensive public high school serving students between 1910 and 2004 in Arkansas City, Arkansas, United States. Since 2005, the original 1910 building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , has served as an annex of the neighboring Desha County Courthouse .