Nashville, Arkansas
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Location in Arkansas
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1873 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Arkansas | |
County : | Howard County | |
Coordinates : | 33 ° 57 ′ N , 93 ° 51 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | |
Residents : | 4,627 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 392.1 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 11.9 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 11.8 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) are land |
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Height : | 116 m | |
Postal code : | 71852 | |
Area code : | +1 870 | |
FIPS : | 05-48560 | |
GNIS ID : | 0077792 | |
Website : | www.nashvillearkansas.org | |
Mayor : | Billy Ray Jones |
Nashville is the county seat of Howard County in the US state of Arkansas . About 4600 people live in an area of almost 12 square kilometers.
Nashville is part of the Ark-La-Tex socio-economic region that includes parts of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana , Oklahoma, and Texas .
history
The city was founded in 1873. The Mine Creek Baptist Church was built in what is now the urban area around 1835 . In the following years, but above all from 1940, numerous settlers settled on the settlement streets and founded a post office. The town's first official name was Mine Creek , but it was also known as Hell's Valley or Pleasant Valley . When Michael Womack moved from Nashville , Tennessee in 1953 , he named it after his hometown.
In 1905 the county seat was moved from Center Point to Nashville. In 1922, the railway line was expanded to include lines to Ashdown and Murfreesboro . The place gained international fame in 1983 when an archeology student discovered dinosaur tracks left by a sauropod . Ultimately, over 5000 different traces could be made out along the entire path that was exposed, some of which were over 100 million years old. However, the tracks were never excavated in full, so that only a few individual tracks can be viewed in museums today.
Demographics
In the United States Census 2000 , the city had 4878 residents in 1857 households and 1179 families. The population density was around 412 people per square kilometer. 60% of the city's population were white, 30.2% black, 7% Hispanics or Latin Americans, 5.3% Native Americans, 1.2% Asians, and less than 0.1% Pacific islanders. 4.4% belonged to a different ethnicity, 1% came from two or more ethnicities. The median age was 35 and the per capita income was over $ 13,200.
By the 2010 census , the population had decreased slightly to 4,627.
education
Nashville is an off-campus of the University of Arkansas' Cossatot Community College . The campus, which was built in 2006 in the west of the city, is around 140,000 square meters in size and offers seven teaching areas.
Personalities
- Trevor Bardette (1902–1977), actor
- Boyd Anderson Tackett (1911–1985), a former member of the United States House of Representatives , began his legal career in Nashville, among other places, and lived here after his retirement from politics.
Web links
- Website of the city of Nashville (Engl.)
- City profile on arkansas.com (Engl.)