Arkansas Highway 12 is an east–west

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. The route runs from Oklahoma State Highway 116 near Cherokee City east to

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near Clifty.

Route description

AR 12 begins at the

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state line at SH-116. The route runs east, crossing AR 43 before entering

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. AR 12 meets AR 59B (Collins Avenue)"Gentry, Arkansas." Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. tp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/geostor_raster_02/AHTD_MAP_SERIES/CURRENT/gentry_city.pdf AHTD Gentry, AR mapRetrieved on November 11, 2010. and AR 59 (Gentry Blvd.) before leaving the city. The highway continues east through Springtown and Highfill, meeting AR 264 in south Highfill. AR 12 angles north past

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to Vaughn before meeting AR 112 and US 71B near the Bentonville Municipal Airport. AR 12 becomes concurrent with many routes for the next , crossing the

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) entering

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. The route runs along former US 62B before meeting AR 94 in Rogers. After this the concurrency ends, and AR 12 becomes a winding 2-lane road with several steep grades and hairpin curves around Beaver Lake. The route meets AR 303 near

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and AR 127 near Clifty, when the route terminates at AR 23.Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
AHTD Madison County map
Retrieved on July 3, 2009. From Rogers east to Clifty, the Scenic Highway 12 East Association maintain

which outlines various points of interest on this segment of highway. Hydrologically Arkansas Highway 12 lies within the Arkansas River catchment basin.

Major intersections

Mile markers reset at concurrencies

History

The route from

to Rogers was originally designated as Arkansas State Road B-27 in Arkansas' initial state highway system of 1924. The route was unpaved. Upon redesignation in 1926, Arkansas Highway 12 was the major east–west route of north Arkansas, running from Oklahoma to Ash Flat via

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. This AR 12 was a precursor to

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, which supplanted AR 12 almost entirely in 1930. The portion not replaced by US 62 remained AR 12, and is very similar to the present-day alignment. The routing was changed slightly in August 2010 when AR 12 replaced US 62 Business in east Rogers. Despite no major routing changes since 1930, AR 12 has seen major change along its shoulders. Running through small mountain towns at inception, today AR 12 serves America's sixth–fastest growing

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Major intersections

History

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