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UTC-5 ( CDT) The Jonesboro–Paragould Combined Statistical Area is made up of three counties in northeastern Arkansas. The CSA consists of the Jonesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Paragould Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the CSA had a population of 163,116. [1]
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad (JLC&E) was a short-line railroad that operated in Mississippi and Craighead counties of northeast Arkansas. This railroad received a charter from the state of Arkansas on April 7, 1897, and track construction between Jonesboro and Blytheville began soon ...
Jonesboro School District (or Jonesboro Public Schools (JPS)) is a school district headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Schools Secondary schools. High schools Jonesboro High School—1982-83 National Blue Ribbon School; Junior high schools Annie Camp Junior High School—1982-83 National Blue Ribbon School
History. Highway 18 was created during the 1926 Arkansas state highway numbering from Diaz to Barfield similar to the present-day alignment. [1] The designation was shifted onto Nettleton Cut-Off Road in Jonesboro on March 9, 1955. [6] The highway was rerouted between Leachville and Manilla on July 10, 1957, with Highway 18 taking over the ...
Columbus. Hempstead. Southwest. website, 4,885 acres, operated by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for conservation education programs. South Fork Nature Center. Clinton. Van Buren. Western. website, 65 acres, 2 miles of trails, located on Greers Ferry Lake, operated by the Gates Rogers Foundation.
8,497. The Jerome War Relocation Center was a Japanese American internment camp located in southeastern Arkansas, near the town of Jerome in the Arkansas Delta. Open from October 6, 1942, until June 30, 1944, it was the last American concentration camp to open and the first to close. At one point it held as many as 8,497 detainees.
2567. Managed by. CoreCivic. Director. Barbara Wagner. Adams County Correctional Center ( ACCC) is a medium security prison for men located in unincorporated Adams County, Mississippi, near Natchez, [1] It is owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. [2] After striking ground in August 2007 at 20 ...
John R. Cooper. John R. Cooper (born 1947), is a Republican politician from Jonesboro, Arkansas. He won a special election to fill a partial term in the Arkansas Senate in 2014, and was reelected in 2016. He lost his reelection bid in the Republican Primary in March 2020.