Dyess
| Dyess | |||
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 Administration building |
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| Location in Arkansas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1934 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Arkansas | ||
| County : | Mississippi County | ||
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 35 ′ N , 90 ° 13 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 389 (as of 2014) | ||
| Population density : | 155.6 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 2.5 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 68 m | ||
| Postal code : | 72330 | ||
| Area code : | +1 870 | ||
| FIPS : | 05-20230 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 82838 | ||
Dyess is a town in Mississippi County in the US state of Arkansas with the status of Town with 389 inhabitants (2014).
geography
Dyess is 25 kilometers southwest of Osceola and 50 kilometers north of Memphis . The Interstate 55 leads ten kilometers east past Dyess. The Tyronza River , a tributary of the Saint Francis River, limits the place in the northwest.
history
In May 1934, the " Colonization Project No. 1 " was founded in southwest Mississippi County and named the place after the director of the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration William Reynolds Dyess. The project gave tenants the opportunity to buy the land they manage. The settlement was laid out in a wagon wheel construction, with a community center at the hub and farms extending from the center. There were 500 small farmhouses, each with five rooms and an adjoining barn and chicken coop. The houses were made of whitewashed facades in weatherboarding ( clapboard ), each with two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a dining room and a front and back porch. The colony offered shelter and work to many impoverished people who longed for a better life. One such family was that of Raymond and Carrie Cash, who moved there from Kingsland with their children in 1935 . Her son JR, who would later become known worldwide as Johnny Cash , was only three years old when the family arrived in Dyess. He left the ward after graduating from high school in 1950.
The former Cash house has been restored and is open to visitors. It is set up as it was when the Cash family (father, mother and seven children, some of whom were born in Dyess) lived there.
Demographic data
In 2014 a population of 389 people was determined, which means a decrease of 24.5% compared to the year 2000. The average age of the residents in 2014 was 24.3 years, well below the average for Arkansas, which was 38.0 years.
sons and daughters of the town
- Tommy Cash (born 1940), country singer, brother of Johnny Cash
Individual evidence
- ^ History
- ↑ Johnny Cash House ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ City data
Web links
- encyclopediaofarkansas - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
- dyesscash - Historic Dyass Colony - Johnny Cash Boyhoodhome