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The term "Northwest Arkansas" is commonly used to refer to the rapidly growing cities of Benton and Washington counties in the geographic corner of the state. Northwest Arkansas, often abbreviated NWA, has become known as a cohesive region due to the efforts of the Northwest Arkansas Council, an association of community and business leaders formally organized in 1990 to promote regionalization ...
Washington County is a regional economic, educational, and cultural hub in the Northwest Arkansas region. Created as Arkansas's 17th county on November 30, 1848, Washington County has 13 incorporated municipalities, including Fayetteville, the county seat, and Springdale.
Arkansas Highway 16 Spur is a 1.46-mile-long (2.35 km) highway in Fayetteville. [4] Locally known as Wedington Drive, it begins at I-49 / US 62 / US 71 as a continuation of Highway 16 and runs east to Highway 112 (Garland Avenue).
Arkansas Highway 265 (AR 265) is a designation for three state highways in Northwest Arkansas. The southern segment of 19.70 miles (31.70 km) runs from Highway 170 near Strickler north to Interstate 49 (I-49) in Fayetteville . [ 3 ]
Arkansas Highway 112 was one of the original 1926 state highways. Garland Avenue runs through the north end of the University of Arkansas campus. Highway 112 was one of the original 1926 state highways. [4] The original Highway 112 was unpaved and ran 2.2 miles (3.5 km) from Arkansas Highway 16 in Fayetteville north to an area south of Johnson.
Fayetteville (/ ˈ f eɪ ə t v ɪ l /) [7] is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the most populous city in Northwest Arkansas. The city had a population of 93,949 as of the 2020 census , which was estimated to have increased to 101,680 by 2023. [ 8 ]
Sulphur Springs is located in northwest Benton County. The city center is about one mile south of the Missouri-Arkansas state line. Arkansas Highway 59 runs through the city, leading north to Noel, Missouri, and south to Gravette. [5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2), all land ...
The Northwest Arkansas region consists of three Arkansas counties: Benton, Madison, and Washington. The area had a population of 347,045 at the 2000 census which had increased to 463,204 by the 2010 Census (an increase of 33.47 percent). The region does not consist of the usual principal-city-with-suburbs morphology.