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Current Arkansas state parks Name County Size Estab-lished River / lake Image Remarks Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources: Union: 19 acres (8 ha) 1986: None: Museum preserving and interpreting the history of oil and bromine mining in Arkansas Arkansas Post Museum: Arkansas: 8 acres (3.2 ha) 1997: None
Sheridan is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located deep in the forests of the Arkansas Timberlands . It sits at the intersection of US Highways 167 and 270 .
Formed on February 4, 1869, Grant County was named in honor of U.S. President-elect Ulysses S. Grant. [3] [4] It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county.Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas General Assembly (1905-1912) from Sheridan, introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges. [5]
Sweet Run State Park is a state park in northern Loudoun County, Virginia, near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. The park was dedicated on 6 October 2023 by Governor Glenn Youngkin. [1] The 884-acre (3.58 km 2) park is the first state park in Loudoun County and the 42nd park to be established under the Virginia state park system. [2]
Pope County, and a small portion from Madison County (prior 1890) Benjamin Johnson (1784–1849), the first judge of the federal district court for Arkansas 26,129: 682.74 sq mi (1,768 km 2) Lafayette County: 073: Lewisville: Oct 15, 1827: Hempstead County and later from Columbia County (prior 1910)
Cane Creek State Park is a 2,053-acre (831 ha) Arkansas state park in Lincoln County, Arkansas in the United States.Straddling the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Mississippi Delta, the park includes the 1,675-acre (678 ha) Cane Creek Lake, a wooded lake which borders Bayou Bartholomew, the world's longest bayou. [2]
Bull Shoals-White River State Park is a 732-acre (296 ha) Arkansas state park in Baxter and Marion Counties, Arkansas in the United States. Containing one of the nation's best trout-fishing streams, the park entered the system in 1955 after the United States Army Corps of Engineers built Bull Shoals Dam on the White River . [ 1 ]
[T]he park was established about a decade after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built 29,500-acre Millwood Lake north of Texarkana in Miller County.Held in place by a 3.3-mile-long earthen dam (the longest of its type in Arkansas), the lake’s trademark timber stands have made it a bass-fishing haven by providing cover vegetation and a food source that keep the fish in shallow, more ...