Fountain Hill, Arkansas
Fountain Hill is a town in Ashley County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 175 at the 2010 census. Geography Fountain Hill is located at (33.355421, -91.851173). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 159 people, 66 households, and 39 families residing in the town. The population density was 104.1/km2 (271.0/mi2). There were 77 housing units at an average density of 50.4/km2 (131.3/mi2). The racial makeup of the town was 60.38% White, 35.22% Black or African American, 1.89% from other races, and 2.52% from two or more races. 2.52% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 66 households, out of which 19.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.0% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.9% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.2% h ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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