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Manila is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,682 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] up from 3,342 in 2010 . It was the hometown of World War I sniper Herman Davis .
The JLC&E Railroad was chartered in 1897 by businessmen from Jonesboro, Arkansas in neighboring Craighead County to take advantage of the virgin timber of the "sunken lands" of the north eastern part of the state. The first train arrived in Manila on December 2, 1900, and the town would usually see four trains a day until 1938. [2]
Herman Davis State Park is a 1-acre (0.40 ha) state park in Manila, Arkansas, United States. The park includes the grave of and a memorial to Herman Davis (1888-1923), a U.S. sniper during World War I. [1] The park is located at the junction of Baltimore Avenue and Arkansas Highway 18, south of the city center. It consists of a grassy area ...
It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Manila, Arkansas, and consists mostly of a shallow lake, swamp, and bottomland hardwood forests. The preservation of habitat for waterfowl in an intensely agricultural region is the primary purpose of the refuge. 6,400 acres (20 km 2 ) of Big Lake was named a National Natural Landmark . 2,144 acres (8 km ...
Image credits: Ibis_Wolfie In the 1930s, Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers from General Drafting Co. were making a road map of New York state. They decided to make up a fictitious hamlet called ...
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History. The Arkansas State Highway Commission created Highway 18B on March 7, 1962 from a former alignment of Highway 77 through downtown Manila. [6] It was redesignated along another former alignment of Highway 77 on June 23, 1965, [8] now running along West Lake Street. [9] Major intersections. The entire route is in Manila, Mississippi County.
Manila Municipal Airport (IATA: MXA, ICAO: KMXA, FAA LID: MXA) is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Manila, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. It is owned by the City of Manila.