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Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre (369 ha) Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2-hectare) plowed field, one of the few diamond -bearing sites accessible to the public. Diamonds have been discovered in the field continuously since 1906, including the graded-perfect ...
Discovery date: March 4, 2023. David Anderson, who lives in Murfreesboro, found a 3.29-carat brown diamond while wet-sifting soil in March 2023. The diamond was the largest found at the park since ...
Uncle Sam diamond. Uncle Sam is the nickname for the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States. It was found in 1924 in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, at the Prairie Creek pipe mine, which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park. The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder, Wesley Oley Basham, a worker ...
Devil's Den State Park. Devil's Den State Park is a 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) Arkansas state park in Washington County, near West Fork, Arkansas in the United States. The park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beginning in 1933. Devil's Den State Park is in the Lee Creek Valley in the Boston Mountains, which are the southwestern part of ...
Highway 7 (AR 7, Ark. 7, Hwy. 7, and partially Scenic 7 Byway) is a north–south state highway that runs across the state of Arkansas. As Arkansas's longest state highway, the route runs 297.27 miles (478.41 km) from the Louisiana state line north to Bull Shoals Lake in Diamond City near the Missouri state line. [2] [3] With the exception of ...
It also is the 36,500th diamond registered since Crater of Diamonds became a state park in 1972. The diamond is “about the size of a pencil eraser” and is “light brown color resembling iced ...
Blanchard Springs Caverns is a cave system located in the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest in Stone County in northern Arkansas, USA, 2 miles (3.2 km) off Highway 14 a short distance north of Mountain View. [1] It is the only tourist cave owned by the United States Forest Service and the only one owned by the federal government outside the ...
A map of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) is part of the United States inland waterway system originating at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa and running southeast through Oklahoma and Arkansas to the Mississippi River. The total length of the system is 445 miles (716 ...