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Arkansas Highway 193
Arkansas Highway 193 (AR 193, Hwy. 193) is a north–south state highway in northeast Arkansas. The route of runs from Highway 306 near Caldwell north across US Route 64 (US 64) through rural Cross County to Highway 42 near Hickory Ridge. The route has an officially designated exception of over Highway 284. Route description AR 193 begins near Caldwell at Highway 306 in northwest St. Francis County. The route continues north to an officially designated exception of with Highway 284. After this overlap, the route continues north to a junction with US 64. The route overlaps with US 64 east for , after which Highway 193 turns north. Highway 193 has a junction with Highway 364 before it terminates at Highway 42 east of Hickory Ridge. History The route was designated a state highway under the jurisdiction of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) between 1965 and 1966. The first segment was only between US 64 U.S. Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldwell, Arkansas
Caldwell is a town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 555 at the 2010 census, an increase from 465 in 2000. Geography Caldwell is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.8 km2 (3.0 mi2), of which 7.8 km2 (3.0 mi2) is land and 0.1 km2 (0.04 mi2) (0.66%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 465 people, 174 households, and 140 families residing in the town. The population density was 59.6/km2 (154.7/mi2). There were 190 housing units at an average density of 24.4/km2 (63.2/mi2). The racial makeup of the town was 82.80% White, 15.05% Black or African American, 0.43% Native American, 1.51% Asian, and 0.22% from two or more races. 0.65% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 174 households, out of which 35.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.7% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a fema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hickory Ridge, Arkansas
Hickory Ridge is a city in Cross County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 272 at the 2010 census. Always a small farming community with an economy based on agriculture, a post office was first established in 1875, but the community did not incorporate until 1949. History A post office in Brushy Lake Township was named Hickory Ridge on October 5, 1875. The post office was closed shortly thereafter, and the area remained very sparsely populated because the soils were too wet to grow cotton. Following the Cotton Belt railway extension through the settlement around 1882, the community saw prosperity from timber and agriculture; reestablishing the Hickory Ridge post office in 1892. The city was racially segregated along the railroad tracks (similar to the Delmar Divide), and around 1910, white residents dynamited the black section of town, expelling all black residents. The city became completely white and evolved into sundown town through unwritten rules. Geography Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross County, Arkansas
Cross County is a rural Northeast Arkansas county in the Arkansas Delta. Created as Arkansas's 53rd county on November 15, 1862, Cross County contains four incorporated municipalities, including Wynne, the county seat and most populous city. It is named for Confederate Colonel David C. Cross, a political leader in the area. The county is largely flat and fertile, mostly used for row agriculture typical of the rich alluvial soils of the Arkansas Delta. Crowley's Ridge, a forested deposit of loess hills rising from the flat Delta bisects the county from north to south, including part of Wynne and most of Village Creek State Park, the county's primary protected area of ecological value. Historical and cultural features range from Parkin Archeological State Park, which preserves a prehistoric Native American mound building settlement, to the Johnston Cotton Gin marking mechanization of the cotton farm, and the Northern Ohio School, a segregated school built by a lumber compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Arkansas State Highways
The following is a list of state highways in Arkansas. The state does not use a numbering convention. Generally the two-digit odd numbered highways run north–south with a few exceptions; and even-numbered two-digit state highways run east–west with a few exceptions. Arkansas has long had a stigma of poor roads, dating from the "Arkansas Roads Scandal" playing a prominent role in state politics through the 1920s and 1930s, periodic allegations of corruption, waste, and fraud, and a long-running struggle to adequately fund the operation, maintenance and expansion of a large highway system serving a rural state. The state has received the designation of "worst roads in America" from several publications throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, with Interstate 30 and Interstate 40 often ranking particularly poorly among truckers. Rankings improved until a large construction plan was completed on I-40. A 2000 survey cited the poor condition of rural interstates, as well as narro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Highway 306
Highway 306 (AR 306, Ark. 306, and Hwy. 306) is a designation for three east–west state highways in the Arkansas Delta. One segment of runs from Highway 38 in Cotton Plant north to Woodruff County Road 680 (CR 680) at Becton. A second segment of runs northeast from US Route 49 (US 49) in Hunter to Highway 284. The third segment runs east from Cross CR 825 at the St. Francis River to Highway 75 at Gieseck. Route description Cotton Plant to Becton The route begins in Cotton Plant near the eastern terminus of Highway 38 near a junction with Highway 17. Highway 306 runs north through cotton country and the community of Shady Grove until meeting Woodruff CR 762 and CR 780, where state maintenance ends. In an extremely rare circumstance, the highway designation continues along CR 780 in name only as an officially designated exception of . This overlap ceases at a junction with Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Highway 42
Highway 42 (AR 42, Ark. 42, and Hwy. 42) is an east–west state highway of in Northeast Arkansas. The highways begins in the corn and cotton fields of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain at Highway 37, crosses the Crowley's Ridge and ends in the St. Francis Lowlands. The highway is a rural, two-lane road with relatively low traffic serving a sparsely populated agricultural area of Arkansas. Highway 42 is one of the original state highways created during the 1926 Arkansas state highway numbering, and has remained largely unchanged since bridge construction and an eastward extension in 1938. It is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT). Route description Highway 42 runs begins in southeastern Jackson County within a historic and cultural region known as the Arkansas Delta. The western terminus is at Highway 37 south of Beedeville and just east of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge; Highway 42 runs due east as a section line r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officially Designated Exception
The Arkansas Highway System is made up of all the highways designated as Interstates, U.S. Highways and State Highways in the US state of Arkansas. The system is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), known as the Arkansas State Highway Department (AHD) until 1977 and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) from 1977 to 2017. The system contains of Interstates, U.S. Routes, state highways, and special routes. The shortest members are unsigned state highways Arkansas Highway 806 and Arkansas Highway 885, both in length. The longest route is U.S. Route 67, which runs from Texarkana to Missouri. History Early beginnings, the "Dollarway" Travel in Arkansas has come from very humble beginnings. In the late nineteenth century, travelers would follow dirt paths riddled with potholes, and ruts. Bicycles would frequently stick in mud puddles. Trains never became popular in Arkansas, and instead travelers would use horse and buggy to ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Highway 284
Highway 284 (AR 284, Ark. 284, and Hwy. 284) is an east–west List of Arkansas state highways, state highway in Arkansas Delta. The route of runs from U.S. Route 49 (US 49) near Fair Oaks, Arkansas, Fair Oaks east to Arkansas Highway 1 Business (Forrest City), Highway 1 Business (AR 1B) in Forrest City, Arkansas, Forrest City. Route description Highway 284 starts in Forrest City, Arkansas, Forrest City at an intersection with Arkansas Highway 1B, Highway 1B, as Newcastle Road in St. Francis County, Arkansas, St. Francis County. It junctions with Interstate 40 in Arkansas, I-40 at exit 242. It junctions with Arkansas Highway 306, Highway 306 near Colt, Arkansas, Colt a few miles north before crossing the county line. It enters Cross County, Arkansas, Cross County from the South before joining U.S. Route 64 Business (Wynne, Arkansas), US 64B and forming a concurrency (road), concurrency. When US 64B ends, Highway 284 runs south fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Highway 364
Highway 364 (AR 364, Hwy. 364) is an east–west state highway in Cross County, Arkansas. The highway connects a series of rural communities and farmland to the principal north–south highways in Cross County. Highway 364 is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT). A former designation, also in Cross County, connected Togo to the state highway system between 1973 and 1983. Route description Highway 364 serves an area of rural Cross County, part of the Arkansas Delta region dominated by flat fields used for row agriculture. No segment of Highway 364 has been listed as part of the National Highway System, a network of roads important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility. Highway 364 begins at the unincorporated community of Tilton at US Highway 49 (US 49) in a rural area of western Cross County. It runs due east before turning north and serving as the southern terminus of Highway 259. Highway&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas State Highway And Transportation Department
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sound intermodal transportation system for the user. The department is responsible for implementing policy made by the Arkansas State Highway Commission, a board of officials appointed by the Governor of Arkansas to direct transportation policy in the state. The department's director is appointed by the commission to hire staff and manage construction and maintenance on Arkansas's highways. The primary duty of ArDOT is the maintenance and management of the over Arkansas Highway System. The department also conducts planning, public transportation, the State Aid County Road Program, the Arkansas Highway Police, and Federal-Aid project administration. Its headquarters are in Little Rock. History Central control of highway t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officially Designated Exception
The Arkansas Highway System is made up of all the highways designated as Interstates, U.S. Highways and State Highways in the US state of Arkansas. The system is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), known as the Arkansas State Highway Department (AHD) until 1977 and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) from 1977 to 2017. The system contains of Interstates, U.S. Routes, state highways, and special routes. The shortest members are unsigned state highways Arkansas Highway 806 and Arkansas Highway 885, both in length. The longest route is U.S. Route 67, which runs from Texarkana to Missouri. History Early beginnings, the "Dollarway" Travel in Arkansas has come from very humble beginnings. In the late nineteenth century, travelers would follow dirt paths riddled with potholes, and ruts. Bicycles would frequently stick in mud puddles. Trains never became popular in Arkansas, and instead travelers would use horse and buggy to ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highways In Arkansas
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