Sunset, Arkansas
Sunset is a town in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 198 at the 2010 census. Geography Sunset is located in east-central Crittenden County at (35.221540, -90.204965). It is surrounded by the city of Marion. Via Interstate 55, which passes just west of the town, Memphis, Tennessee, is to the southeast. 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 348 people, 135 households, and 85 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 156 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 4.89% White, 91.09% Black or African American, 2.87% from other races, and 1.15% from two or more races. 4.02% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 135 households, out of which 26.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 22.2% were married couples living together, 34.8% had a female ...
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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, ...
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