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Harrison, Arkansas Micropolitan Area
The Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas, anchored by the city of Harrison. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 45,223. Counties * Boone * Newton Communities Places with more than 12,000 inhabitants * Harrison (Principal city) Places with 425 to 800 inhabitants * Diamond City * Bergman * Bellefonte *Jasper Places with 175 to 400 inhabitants * Alpena (partial) * Western Grove * Lead Hill *Omaha Places with less than 175 inhabitants *Valley Springs * Everton *Zinc * South Lead Hill Unincorporated places * Marble Falls * Olvey Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 42,556 people, 17,351 households, and 12,356 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 97.56% White, 0.12% African American, 0.68% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpena, Arkansas
Alpena is a town in Boone and Carroll counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The population was 374 at the 2020 census. The Boone County portion of Alpena is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Alpena Pass was founded in 1908 on top of a graveyard shortly after the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad The Missouri and North Arkansas was a railroad in Missouri and Arkansas from 1906 to 1935, with its successor lasting until 1946. History The railroad began as the Eureka Springs Railway in 1883 as a line from the St. Louis–San Francisco Ra ... was built through Boone County. In the 1950s, the word "pass" was dropped from the name, thus creating the current name, Alpena. At the time of the town's founding, the town of Carrollton was in decline. Many of the buildings of Carrollton were disassembled, moved and reassembled at Alpena Pass. MADtv's Rice and Beans Tour once came through the town, doing a tongue-in-cheek exposé about rural Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native American (U
Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United States Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and A .... Related terms and peoples include: Ethnic groups * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America and their descendants * Indigenous peoples in Canada ** First Nations in Canada, Canadian Indigenous peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis ** Inuit, Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. ** Métis in Canada, specific cultural communities who trace their descent to early communities consisting of both First Nations people and European settlers * Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica * Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African American (U
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black people, Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to Atlantic slave trade, European slave traders and Middle Passage, transported across the Atlantic to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, the Western He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White (U
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olvey, Arkansas
Olvey Township is one of twenty current townships in Boone County, Arkansas, USA."Olvey Township, Boone County, Arkansas." U.S. Census BureauBreakdown.Retrieved June 2, 2012. As of the 2010 census, its total population was 440. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ..., Olvey Township covers an area of ; of land and of water. Population history References United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line ShapefilesUnited States Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)United States National Atlas Census 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files: County Subdivisions in Arkansas External links US-Counties.com Townships in Boone County, Arkansas Townships in Arkansas {{Arkansas-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marble Falls, Arkansas
Marble Falls (known as Marble City from 1840 to 1883, Willcockson from 1883 to 1934, and Dogpatch from 1966 to 1997) is an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States. It lies along Arkansas's National Scenic 7 Byway between Harrison and Jasper. The Marble Falls Post Office is located in the parking lot of the now-defunct theme park called Dogpatch USA. For a time, the town was known as Dogpatch to promote the theme park. Marble Falls is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Settlement A Choctaw Indian named Ah-Che-To-Mah was the first settler known to have acquired title to land in the vicinity of Marble Falls. The waterfall once supplied power for a flour mill, cotton gin, and sawmill. Peter Beller built the original water-powered grist mill there, and this mill was later rebuilt and remodeled by several different owners. Marble City, Arkansas (1840 to 1883) The community was originally named Marble City, after the marble that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Lead Hill, Arkansas
South Lead Hill is a town in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 102 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.3 km (0.1 mi2), all land. Major highway * Arkansas Highway 7 Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 88 people, 28 households, and 22 families residing in the town. The population density was 261.4/km (702.4/mi2). There were 33 housing units at an average density of 98.0/km (263.4/mi2). The racial makeup of the town was 93.18% White, 2.27% Native American, and 4.55% from two or more races. 1.14% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 28 households, out of which 57.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.1% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.4% were non-families. 17.9% of all households wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinc, Arkansas
Zinc is a town near the east-central edge of Boone County, Arkansas, Boone County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 92 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Harrison, Arkansas micropolitan area, Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. A chapter of the Ku Klux Klan operates in Zinc. History Zinc mining in the area gave the town its name. Zinc and lead mining began in the 1890s and peaked during World War I (1914–1918). A post office was established in Zinc in 1900 and the town was incorporated in 1904. The town had a number of business establishments and a school in the 1920s, but a flood in 1927 caused damage to homes and businesses. Zinc's population was 188 in 1930 and declined thereafter. The last store closed in Zinc in the late 1960s and the post office closed in 1975. Zinc, in the 21st century, became the headquarters of a chapter of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everton, Arkansas
Everton is a town in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 133 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. List of highways * Arkansas Highway 206 Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 170 people, 70 households, and 49 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 73 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 97.65% White, 0.59% Native American, 0.59% Asian, and 1.18% from two or more races. 3.53% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 70 households, out of which 30.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.3% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.0% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.9% had someone liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley Springs, Arkansas
Valley Springs is a town in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 175 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Valley Springs Academy was a private high school in Valley Springs. It was established in 1870. It was supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Alumni * Jackson F. Henley, state legislator and judge * Henry W. Sitton, state legislator Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.2 km (0.5 mi2), all land. List of highways * U.S. Highway 65 * Arkansas Highway 206 Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 175 people, 69 households, and 54 families residing in the town. The population density was 137.2/km (352.0/mi2). There were 73 housing units at an average density of 60.0/km (153.9/mi2). The racial makeup of the town was 95.21% White, 1.20% Native American, 1.20% Asian, 0.60% Pacific Islander, 0.60% from other races, and 1.20% fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
