De Queen

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De Queen
town hall
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Location in Arkansas
De Queen (Arkansas)
De Queen
De Queen
Basic data
Foundation : 1897
State : United States
State : Arkansas
County : Sevier County
Coordinates : 34 ° 2 ′  N , 94 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 2 ′  N , 94 ° 21 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 6,629 (as of 2010)
Population density : 454 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 14.8 km 2  (about 6 mi 2 ) of
which 14.6 km 2  (about 6 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 128 m
Postal code : 71832
Area code : +1 870
FIPS : 05-18490
GNIS ID : 0066997
Website : www.cityofdequeen.com
Mayor : Billy Ray McKelvey

De Queen is a city and county seat of Sevier County in the US state of Arkansas . In 2010 the population was around 6,600 people who live on almost 15 square kilometers.

De Queen is part of the Ark-La-Tex socio-economic region that arose between the states of Arkansas, Louisiana , Oklahoma and Texas .

history

The city was built along a railroad track built in the late 1880s as the Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Gulf Railroad from Kansas City , Missouri to Port Arthur , Texas . During the financial crisis that began in 1893, Arthur Stilwell looked for new donors in Europe. He finally found this in Jan DeGoeijen, with whom he was able to collect a total of 3 million US dollars. So the new city was finally named after him, the city name being changed from De Goeijen to De Queen due to the problematic pronunciation .

Demographics

The 2010 census showed a population of 6,629. Of these, 53.5% were Hispanic or Latin American, 36.7% white, 5.6% black, 2.3% Native American and 0.7% Asian. 35.1% of the population were of a different ethnicity, 4.2% had two or more ethnicities. The median age was 29 years.

Compared to the census of 2000 , a growth could be determined. At that time there were still 5,765 people living in the city, divided into 1,913 households and 1,377 families. This corresponded to a population of 395.4 people per square kilometer. The average family was 3.44 people. The median income was forever more than 13,000 US dollars, and just under a quarter of the city's population lived below the poverty line.

education

In the city there is an outside campus of the Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas . There are also free courses for adult education.

traffic

The urban area is crossed by three US highways : US Route 59 runs from the north to the east of the city and connects it, among other things, with Houston in the south. The US Route 71 runs in the urban area on the same path and connects the city among other Bossier and Kansas City . The US Route 70 runs from the west to the east of the city and leads among other things to Memphis . The latter two routes are considered two of the system's 21 main links.

There is also an airplane runway to the north of the city. A multi-track railway line runs through the city from the north, which is divided into two lines to the south-west and east in the south.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : De Queen, Arkansas  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files