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Pea Ridge is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.The name Pea Ridge is derived from a combination of the physical location of the original settlement of the town, across the crest of a ridge of the Ozark Mountains, and for the hog peanuts or turkey peas that had been originally cultivated by Native American tribes centuries before European settlement, which later helped to provide ...
Pea Ridge (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 33°55′14″N 91°20′12″W / 33.92056°N 91.33667°W / 33.92056; -91
The Pea Ridge Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial center of Pea Ridge, Arkansas. It includes twelve buildings on Pickens Street between Greene and Davis Streets, and another seven on Curtis Street between Pike and Macintosh Streets. Of these nineteen commercial and civic buildings, thirteen are historically significant.
Area code 870 was created in April 1997 to serve the most rural parts of the state (originally specifically not Little Rock metro, Fort Smith or Northwest Arkansas). In January 2002, area code 479 broke from 501, giving Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas their own area code. The following three area codes serve Arkansas:
Elkhorn Tavern is a two-story, wood-frame structure that served as a physical center for the American Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, which was fought on March 7 and March 8, 1862, approximately five miles east of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, located in the northeastern Benton County, Arkansas.
Area codes 870 and 327 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for southern, eastern, and most of northern Arkansas. 870 was created on April 14, 1997, in a split from area code 501, Arkansas's original area code of 1947, and 327 was added as part of an overlay complex in 2024.
Pea Ridge: 1 Benton County: 72751 Pea Ridge: 1 Desha County Pea Ridge National Military Park: 1 Benton County: 72751 Pearson: 1 Cleburne County: 72131 Pearson: 1 Union County Pecan Grove: 1 Pulaski County Pecan Point: 1 Mississippi County: 72350 Pedro: 1 Benton County Peel: 1 Marion County: 72668 Peiser Spur: 1 Pulaski County Pelsor: 1 Pope County
The 4,300-acre (17 km 2) Pea Ridge National Military Park was created by an act of Congress in 1956 to preserve the battlefield of the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge. It was dedicated as a national park during the American Civil War Centennial in 1963. [5] In 1956, the Arkansas congressional delegation proposed legislation to make Pea Ridge a ...