The Ark-La-Tex (a portmanteau of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; also stylized as Arklatex or ArkLaTex) is a socio-economic region where the Southern U.S. states of

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...

Louisiana Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 31st in area and 25 ...

, and

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

join together. The region contains portions of Northwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas, and South Arkansas as well as Oklahoma's southeasternmost county, McCurtain County (part of

Choctaw Country Choctaw Country is the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation's official tourism designation for Southeast Oklahoma. The name was previously Kiamichi Country until changed in honor of the Choctaw Nation headquartered there. The current ...

). The population of the 40-county core region as of 2020 is 1,469,860 people, down from 1,515,056 in 2010.

Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, Lo ...

, with 187,593 people in 2020, is the largest city, economic and geographic center of the region, and principal hub for both the

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and Northwestern Louisiana.

Longview, Texas Longview is a city in, and county seat of, Gregg County, Texas, United States. Longview is located in East Texas, where Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway system, U.S. highways U.S. Route 80, 80 and U.S. Route 259, 259 converge just north of the Sabi ...

, with a population of 81,683 people in 2020, is the second-largest city as well as a principal city of the Tyler–Longview metropolitan

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and Greater Longview metropolitan area. The twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and

Texarkana, Arkansas Texarkana is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County, on the southwest border of the state. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 29,387. It is the twin city of Texarkana, Texas, located just acros ...

, are the fourth- and sixth-largest cities, respectively, but collectively make up the region's third-largest metropolitan area (with a combined population exceeding 140,000 residents) as the center of the Texarkana metropolitan area encompassing

Miller County, Arkansas Miller County is a County (United States), county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 42,600. The county seat is Texarkana, Arkansas, Texarkana. ...

, and

Bowie County, Texas Bowie County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Texas. Its legal county seat is Boston, Texas, Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston, Texas, New Boston. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 censu ...

. Other cities in the Ark-La-Tex with 20,000 or more residents include

Bossier City, Louisiana Bossier City ( ) is a city in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Bossier Parish in the northwestern region of the U.S. state, state of Louisiana in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area ...

; Nacogdoches, Texas; Marshall, Texas; and Ruston, Louisiana. The counties in the area's western section are largely part of the East Texas region (except for McCurtain County, Oklahoma, which is part of the Choctaw Country tourist region) and mainly encompass the Tyler–Longview–Lufkin–Nacogdoches television market area, while the counties and parishes in the eastern half of the region are included in the Shreveport–Texarkana television market. However, some Arkansas counties—under certain, looser definitions of the Ark-La-Tex region—in northwesternmost areas of the southwestern section of the state are included in the

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viewing area.

Etymology

Although use of the term to refer to the tri-state region dates back to the early 1900s, the name "Ark-La-Tex" was popularized regionally by a Shreveport Chamber of Commerce promotional campaign developed in 1932–33 to increase tourism in the area. The campaign, dubbing the area as "The Land of Arklatex", was based on the idea that "the interests of all the people in the Tri-state area of South Arkansas, North Louisiana and East Texas are practically identical in matters pertaining to agriculture, industry, commerce and trade, and education." The region is alternatively, although seldom in most media and promotional parlance, referred to as "Arklatexoma", which more inclusively encompasses McCurtain County and other parts of extreme Southeastern Oklahoma that lie along the Red River.

Geography

The Ark-La-Tex covers over across the four-state area; if the Ark-La-Tex were a U.S. state, it would be larger than

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. Most of the Ark-La-Tex is located in the Piney Woods, an

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of dense forests of mixed

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and

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flora. The forests are periodically punctuated by sloughs and bayous that are linked to larger bodies of water such as Caddo Lake or the Red River. Three of the four National Forests located within the Piney Woods of East Texas are wholly or partially within the Ark-La-Tex boundaries: Angelina National Forest (spanning Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine and Jasper counties), Sabine National Forest (near Hemphill) and Davy Crockett National Forest (between Lufkin and Crockett). The Red River is the principal mainstem waterway in the region, exiting from the eastern end of Lake Texoma and running generally east along the Oklahoma–Texas border towards Southwestern Arkansas (entering it near the state line between Little River County, Arkansas, and

) before turning southward northwest of Texarkana (in so doing, forming the eastern border of Miller County) and passing into Northwestern Louisiana. The bordering Louisiana cities of Shreveport and Bossier City were developed along the river bank; its span within the Ark-La-Tex ends in

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(where the Red River spans to the adjacent northwest of the parish's namesake county seat), at its intersection with Grant and Rapides parishes.

Definition

As with all vernacular regions, the Ark-La-Tex has no official boundaries or status and is defined differently by various sources. Most definitions of the Ark-La-Tex delineate the region as encompassing 40 parishes and counties, and most weather radars suggest a 40-county or -parish area.

Louisiana (13 parishes)

* Bienville * Bossier * Caddo * Claiborne * DeSoto * Jackson * Lincoln * Natchitoches * Red River *

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* Union * Webster * Winn

Arkansas (10 counties)

* Columbia * Hempstead *

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* Lafayette * Little River * Miller *

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* Ouachita * Sevier * Union

Oklahoma (one county)

* McCurtain

Texas (16 counties)

* Bowie * Camp *

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* Gregg * Harrison * Marion * Morris * Nacogdoches * Panola * Red River *

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* San Augustine * Shelby * Titus * Upshur Alternate definitions can include eight additional Texas counties ( Lamar,

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, Hopkins, Franklin,

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, and Angelina), include the Monroe, Louisiana metropolitan area and Ouachita Parish, Louisiana (which is considered part of the Ark-La-Miss region), exclude the counties encompassing the El Dorado, Arkansas micropolitan area, or exclude McCurtain County, Oklahoma. McCurtain County is usually included in the region's areal definition, primarily for media distribution purposes, even though the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation formally defines it as being part of its

tourism region. Another alternate definition is solely the vicinity of the Ark-La-Tex region's three principal cities, Shreveport, Longview, and Texarkana.

Climate

The Ark-La-Tex is situated in a

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(

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''Cfa'') typical of the Southeastern United States, albeit occasionally interrupted by intrusions of cold air during the winter months. Rainfall is abundant, with the normal annual precipitation averaging over in some areas (such as Shreveport), with monthly averages ranging from less than in August to more than in June. Portions of East Texas within the region receive more rainfall, , than the rest of the state. Due to the flat topography of some areas and the prominence of smaller waterways that are prone to backwater flooding from the Red River, communities occasionally experience severe flooding events. A notable occurrence of severe flooding occurred in March 2016, after torrential rains caused a rapid rise of many local waterways, displacing upwards of 3,500 people from their homes across Caddo and Bossier parishes and adjacent areas of Northwest Louisiana that lie along the Red River. Freezing rain and ice storms occasionally occur during the winter months. Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain,

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, damaging winds and

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es occur in the area during the spring and summer months, although severe weather can also occur during the winter months. The region is in the western section of the " Dixie Alley" tornado climatology region, where tornadogenesis is most often attributed by high precipitation supercell thunderstorms—within which tornadoes are often partially or fully wrapped in curtains of heavy rain, impairing them from being seen by storm spotters and chasers, law enforcement, and the public—due to an increase of moisture from proximity to the nearby

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. Some areas of the region, such as Bossier City, average a slightly above normal rate of tornadoes when compared to the national average. The winter months are normally mild; Shreveport, in particular, averages 35 days of freezing or below-freezing temperatures per year. Ice and sleet storms occasionally occur during this timeframe. The summer months are hot and humid, with high to very high relative average humidity, often as a result of moisture being advected from the Gulf of Mexico; in Shreveport, maximum temperatures exceed an average of 91 days per year. The

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(NWS) operates a Weather Forecast Office in Shreveport, which provides local weather forecasts and warnings, watches and advisories for hazardous weather conditions for 39 counties and parishes within the greater Ark-La-Tex region.

Communities

Largest cities

List of cities with over 3,500 people (in 2020):

Metropolitan and micropolitan areas

Metropolitan statistical areas

Micropolitan statistical areas

Culture

The culture of the Ark-La-Tex region, and especially its music, shows a mixture of influences from the related, but distinct, cultures of its surrounding states. The music of the area is marked by country and blues sounds typical of the music of the Southern United States, the Western music of Texas, and the well-documented music of

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and Acadiana in

. The area had a significant role in the development of country and rock-and-roll music, beginning in the 1940s. On March 1, 1948, Shreveport radio station KWKH launched a country music variety show called the ''Ark-La-Tex Jubilee'', followed a month later by the long-running and influential '' Louisiana Hayride'' program. ''Hayride'' director Horace Logan and regular performer Webb Pierce started a music publishing company called Ark-La-Tex Music. Drummer Brian Blade, a Shreveport native, included a song entitled "Ark.La.Tex." on his 2014 album ''Landmarks'', exploring the mixture of musical influences in his home region.

Education

Colleges and universities

The region contains Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, part of the University of Texas System, and

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, a public research university in Ruston, which are the largest public institutions of higher education in the Ark-La-Tex. Named after Stephen F. Austin, who led the second and most successful colonization of the region that would become the state of Texas through the migration of 300 families from other parts of the United States in 1825, the former of the two major universities was founded as a teachers' college in 1923 as a result of legislation authored by

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Wilfred Roy Cousins, Sr. Louisiana Tech opened in 1894 (as the Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana) to provide educational subjects pertaining to the arts and sciences for the development of an industrial economy in Louisiana post-

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. In the 1960s the school (then named Louisiana Polytechnic Institute) became desegregated, and allowed integrated classes with white and black students; after it achieved criteria of a

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under the leadership of President F. Jay Taylor, the university officially adopted its current name in 1970. Louisiana Tech also operates a satellite campus in Shreveport as well as classes at the Academic Success Center and Barksdale Air Force Base Instructional Site in Bossier City, and at the CenturyLink corporate headquarters in Monroe. Ruston is also home to a branch campus of Monroe-based

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. The Shreveport–Bossier City area is home to several colleges; among them, the

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-affiliated Centenary College of Louisiana (originally founded in the East Feliciana Parish town of Jackson in 1825, eventually relocating to Shreveport in 1908), Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary (founded in 1973), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport (opened in 1969 as the only

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in northern Louisiana) and one of the largest nursing schools in northern Louisiana, the Northwestern State University College of Nursing (opened in 1949) as well as satellite campuses of

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(opened as a two-year institution in 1967, and expanded into a four-year college in 1976),

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(opened in 1967 with a two-year

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program). Longview, Texas, is home to LeTourneau University, a private, four-year Christian university founded by R.G. LeTourneau in 1946, originally as LeTourneau Technical Institute. Inclusively, Tyler, Texas is also home to satellite higher education campuses through the University of Texas System by way of the

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(opened in 1971 as Tyler State College) and the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler (opened in 1947 as the East Texas Tuberculosis Sanitarium and chartered into The University of Texas System in 1977 by the system's Board of Regents) as well as one of two independent institutions, Tyler Junior College (opened in 1926). The Texarkana metropolitan area is home to Texas A&M University–Texarkana, a four-year satellite branch of the Texas A&M University System (founded as an upper-level extension college of East Texas State University in 1971), and Texarkana College (a public

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formed in 1927 as a branch of the Texarkana Independent School District and separated into an independent institution via a public vote in 1941). Arkadelphia is home to two

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institutions:

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(founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College), which is the only member of the

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based in Arkansas and announced plans to join the

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in October 2019, and Ouachita Baptist University, a private,

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college affiliated with the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (opened in 1886). The area also houses several historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). The largest of these, Grambling State University, located in the namesake Lincoln Parish town of Grambling ( west of the Louisiana Tech University campus), was founded in 1901 as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School. The university was created out of the desire of African-American farmers in rural areas of northern Louisiana to educate other black residents in that section of the state; it moved to its present location in 1905 (as the North Louisiana Agricultural and Industrial School) and became a state

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(renamed the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute) by 1928, when it began offering two-year professional certificates and diplomas to graduates. Grambling received accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 1949. Other HBCUs in the region include Texas College in Tyler (opened in 1894), Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins (a

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-based HBCU founded in 1912), and Wiley College in Marshall (a private liberal arts college founded in 1873 by

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Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, which is one of the oldest predominantly black colleges west of the Mississippi River).

Media

Newspapers

* '' Athens Daily Review'' – Athens (Daily, except Sundays and Mondays) * '' Bossier Press-Tribune'' – Bossier City (Bi-weekly) * ''Coushatta Citizen'' - Coushatta (Daily/Morning) * '' The Daily Sentinel'' – Nacogdoches (Daily/Morning) * '' Longview News-Journal'' – Longview (Daily) * '' Lufkin Daily News'' – Lufkin (Daily) * '' Marshall News Messenger'' – Marshall (Daily/Morning) * ''McCurtain County Gazette'' – Idabel (Daily/Morning) * ''Natchitoches Times'' – Natchitoches (Daily/Morning) * '' Ruston Daily Leader'' – Ruston (Daily, except Saturdays) * '' Texarkana Gazette'' – Texarkana, AR (Daily/Morning) * ''

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'' – Shreveport (Daily/Morning) * '' Tyler Morning Telegraph'' – Tyler (Daily/Morning)

TV

Shreveport/Texarkana (Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas)

* KTAL-TV (channel 6) – Texarkana/Shreveport/Marshall ( NBC affiliate) * KMSS-TV (channel 33) – Shreveport/Texarkana ( Fox affiliate) * KSHV-TV (channel 45) – Shreveport/Texarkana (

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affiliate) * KPXJ (channel 21) – Minden/Shreveport/Texarkana ( CW affiliate) * KSLA (channel 12) – Shreveport/Texarkana/Bossier City/Marshall/Natchitoches ( CBS affiliate) *

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(channel 3) – Shreveport/Texarkana ( ABC affiliate) * KLTS (channel 24) – Shreveport ( PBS member station; Louisiana Public Broadcasting

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) * KETG (channel 9) – Arkadelphia (PBS member station; Arkansas PBS satellite)

El Dorado/Monroe (South Central Arkansas and North Central Louisiana)

* KTVE (channel 10) – El Dorado/ Monroe/ Ruston (NBC affiliate)

Tyler/Lufkin (East Texas)

* KLTV (channel 7) – Tyler/Longview (ABC affiliate) * KYTX (channel 19) – Nacogdoches/Lufkin/Tyler/Longview/Jacksonville (CBS affiliate) * KFXK (channel 51) – Longview/Tyler (Fox affiliate) * KCEB (channel 54) – Longview/Tyler ( beIN Sports Xtra Español affiliate) * KETK-TV (channel 56) – Jacksonville/Tyler/Longview (NBC affiliate) * KTRE (channel 9) – Lufkin/Nacogdoches (ABC affiliate; semi-satellite of KLTV)

Radio

AM stations

=Arkansas

= * KVRC (1240; "Fox Sports Arkansas") – Arkadelphia (Sports/Fox Sports Radio) * KDMS (1290) – El Dorado (Gospel) * KELD (1400; "The Fan") – El Dorado (Sports/Fox Sports Radio)

=Louisiana

= *

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(710) / K2689GO (101.7 FM, repeater; "KEEL 101.7 FM & 710 AM") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Texarkana/Marshall/Natchitoches (News/talk) * KRRP (950; "Praise 950") – Coushatta/Natchitoches (

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) * KOKA (980) – Shreveport/Bossier City (

) * KBCL (1070; "Praise 1070") – Bossier City/Shreveport (Christian talk) * KWKH (1130; "1130 The Tiger") – Shreveport/Bossier City (Sports radio/Fox Sports Radio) * KASO (1240) – Minden/Shreveport/Bossier City (Classic hits) * KSYB (1300; "1300 AM KSYB") – Shreveport/Bossier City (Gospel) * KNCB (1320) / K281CY (104.1; "ESPN Shreveport") – Vivian/Shreveport/Bossier City (

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) * KRMD (1340; "The Ticket") – Shreveport/Bossier City / K264AS (100.7 FM, repeater) – Mooringsport (Sports talk) * KNOC (1450) / K240EY (95.9; "95.9 Kix Country") – Natchitoches (Classic country) * KTKC (1460 AM; "Red de Radio Amistad") – Springhill (Spanish Christian) * KIOU (1480) – Shreveport/Bossier City (Christian radio) * KRUS (1490) / K242DA (96.3; "Hitz 96.3") – Ruston-Grambling ( Urban contemporary)

=Texas

= * KTBB (600) – Tyler/Longview / KTBB-FM (97.5) – Troup ( News/talk) * KCMC (740) / K300DW (107.9 FM, repeater; "107.9 The Fan") – Texarkana, TX (

/ CBS Sports Radio) * KSFA (860; "News Talk 860") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (News/talk) * KTFS (940) / K290CP (105.9 FM, repeater) – Texarkana, TX (Gospel) * KSST (1230 AM) – Sulphur Springs (Oldies) * KDOK (1240; "All Hit Radio K-DOK") – Kilgore/Longview/Marshall ( Classic Hits) * KZHN (1250; "1250 The Texan") – Paris (Classic country) * KSML (1260; "NBC Sports Radio 1260") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Sports/ NBC Sports Radio) * KIVY (1290) – Crockett/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches ( Adult standards) * KGLD (1330 AM; "The Light") – Tyler/Longview (

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) * KRBA (1340 AM) – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (News/talk/variety) * KHDY (1350; "K-Car") – Clarksville (Classic Country) * KFRO (1370) – Longview/Marshall (Talk) * KKTK (1400) / K246CR (97.1 FM, repeater; "Fox Sports 1400 AM") – Texarkana, TX (Sports/

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) *

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(1430) – Gladewater/Longview/Marshall ( Black gospel) * KMHT (1450; "ESPN Radio 1450") – Marshall/Longview (Sports/

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) * KWRD (1470) / K253CE (98.5; "1470 AM / 98.5 FM KWRD") – Henderson/Longview/Marshall (

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) * KPLT (1490; "Classic Country KPLT") – Paris (Classic country) * KYZS (1490) / K239CB (95.7, repeater; "ESPN East Texas 95.7") – Tyler (Sports/ESPN Radio)

=Oklahoma

= * KBEL (1240; "Talk 1240") – Idabel (News/talk)

FM stations

=Arkansas

= * KBSA (90.9; "Red River Radio") – El Dorado (NPR/Public Radio International) * KAGL (93.3; "The Eagle") – El Dorado (Classic rock) * KMJI (93.3; "Majic 93-3") – Ashdown/Texarkana, AR ( Urban Contemporary) * KMRX (96.1; "Big 96.1") – El Dorado (Classic hits) * KMLK (98.7; "The Heart and Soul 98.7") – El Dorado (Urban Adult Contemporary) * KDEL-FM (100.9; "Fox Sports Arkansas") – Arkadelphia (Sports/Fox Sports Radio) * KIXB (103.3; "KIX 103") – El Dorado (Country) * KPGG (103.9) – Ashdown/Texarkana, AR / KHDY-FM (98.5 FM; "98.5 & 103.9 The Pig") – Clarksville (Classic country) * KTOY (104.7; "Jammin 104.7") – Texarkana, AR (Urban Adult Contemporary) * KYGL (106.3; "Eagle 106.3") – Texarkana, AR (

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) * KTFS-FM (107.1; "News Talk 107.1 KTFS") – Texarkana, AR (News/talk)

=Louisiana

= * KVSE (89.1; "Miracle 89.1") – Blanchard/Shreveport/Bossier City (Contemporary Christian) * KLPI (89.1) – Ruston (College-leading Alternative rock) * KBIO (89.7; " Radio Maria") – Natchitoches (Christian radio) * KDAQ (89.9; "Red River Radio") – Shreveport (NPR/Public Radio International) * KNWD (91.7; "The Demon") – Natchitoches (College-leading

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) * KVCL-FM (92.1) - Winnfield (

) * KJVC (92.7) – Mansfield (Classic Country) * KXKS-FM (93.7; "Kiss Country") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Minden/Marshall (

) * KRUF (94.5; "K94.5") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden ( Top 40 CHR) * KSBH (94.9; "94.9 The River") – Coushatta/Natchitoches (

) * KLKL (95.7; "The River 95.7") – Minden/Shreveport/Bossier City (Classic hits) * KVKI-FM (96.5) – Shreveport/Bossier City (Adult contemporary) * KQHN (97.3; "Q 97.3") – Waskom/Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Hot Adult Contemporary) * KDBH-FM (97.5; "Country Legends 97.5") – Natchitoches/Coushatta (Classic Country) * KTAL-FM (98.1; "98 Rocks") – Texarkana/Shreveport/Bossier City (

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) * KPCH (99.3; "The Peach 99.3") – Ruston (Classic hits) * KMJJ-FM (99.7) – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Urban Contemporary) * KZBL (100.7) – Natchitoches (Oldies) * KBNF-LP (101.3) – Ruston (High school-leading '80s Classic hits) * KDKS-FM (102.1; "KDKS Hot 102 Jams") – Blanchard/Shreveport/Bossier City (Urban adult contemporary) * KVMA-FM (102.9; "Magic 102.9") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (

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/ R&B

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-leaning Urban Adult Contemporary) * KBTT (103.7; "Tha Beat") - Haughton/Shreveport/Bossier City ( Mainstream Urban) * KNCB-FM (105.3; "Hot Country 105.3") – Vivian (

) * KWLV (107.1) - Many/Natchitoches/Mansfield (

) * KXKZ (107.5; "Z107.5") – Ruston/Natchitoches/Winnfield (

)

=Texas

= * KLDN (88.9; "Red River Radio") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches ( NPR/

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) * KVNE (89.5) / KGLY (91.3; "Encouragement FM") – Tyler/Longview ( Contemporary Christian) * KAXM (90.1; "Your East Texas Alternative") – Nacodgdoches/Lufkin ( College radio) * KSWP (90.9) – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Contemporary Christian) * KBWC (91.1) – Marshall/Longview (College-leading Urban contemporary) * KTXK (91.5) – Texarkana, TX (NPR) * KAVX (91.9) – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches ( Christian talk) * KRWR (92.1; "92.1 The Team FM") – Tyler/Longview (Sports/Fox Sports Radio) * KDPM (92.3) – Marshall/Longview ( silent) * KXXE (92.5) – San Augustine/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Country) * KTYL-FM (93.1; "Mix 93.1") – Tyler/Longview (

Hot Adult Contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

) * KOYN (93.9) – Paris (Country) * KTRG (94.1; "ESPN Texarkana") – Hooks/Texarkana, TX (Sports) * KVLL (94.7; "My 94.7") – Wells/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (

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) * KEWL (95.1; "The Rewind on 95.1") – New Boston/Texarkana, TX ( Classic hits) * KAFX-FM (95.5; "KFOX 95.5") – Diboll/Lufkin (Top 40 CHR) * KITX (95.5; "K 95.5") – Paris (Country) * KPWW (95.9; "Power 95-9") – Hooks/Texarkana, TX (Top 40 CHR) * KSCH (95.9 FM) – Sulphur Springs / KSCN (96.9 FM, repeater) – Pittsburg (Country) * KKTX-FM (96.1; "Classic Rock 96.1") – Kilgore/Tyler/Longview/Marshall (

) * KOYE (96.7; "La Invasora 96.7") – Frankston/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (

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) * KLVH (97.1; " K-Love") –

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/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Contemporary Christian) * KGFZ (97.7; "Z-97.7") – Burke/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Urban contemporary) * KALK (97.7 FM; "K-Lake 97.7") – Winfield/Paris (Classic hits) * KLOW (98.9 FM; "Trumpet Radio 98.9") – Reno/Paris (Contemporary Christian) * KTUX (98.9; "Highway 98.9") – Carthage/Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall (Classic Rock) * KAPW (99.3; "Mega 99.3") – White Oak/Longview/Marshall (Regional Mexican) * KNRB (100.1) – Atlanta (Contemporary Christian) * KRMD-FM (101.1) – Oil City/Shreveport/Bossier City (

) * KYBI (100.1; "Y100") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Country) * KTYK (100.7; "Red River Radio") – Overton/Tyler/Longview (NPR/Public Radio International) * KNUE (101.5) – Tyler (Spanish Christian) * KBYB (101.7) – Hope / K257FY (99.3, repeater; "101.7 Hot FM") – Texarkana, TX (Country) * KBUS (101.9; "101.9 The Bus") – Paris (Classic rock) * KSML-FM (101.9; "Super Mix 101.9") – Huntington/Lufkin (Regional Mexican) * KLFZ (102.3; "Fun Radio") – Jacksonville/Tyler/Longview (Top 40) * KKYR-FM (102.5; "Kicker 102.5") – Texarkana, TX (Country) * KBLZ (102.7; "The Blaze") – Winona/Tyler (Urban Contemporary) * KJCS (103.3; "103 The Bull") – Nacodgdoches/Lufkin (Classic country) * KZRB (103.5) – New Boston/Texarkana, TX (Urban Contemporary) * KMHT-FM (103.9; "103.9 Classic Country") – Marshall/Longview (Classic country) * KKUS (104.1; "The Ranch") – Tyler/Longview (Classic country) * KFYN-FM (104.3; "The River") –

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(Traditional/ Red Dirt Country) * KYKS (105.1; "Kicks 105") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Country) * KYKX (105.7) – Longview/Tyler (Country) * KOOI (106.5; "Jack 106.5") – Jacksonville/Tyler/Longview ( Variety hits) * KISX (107.3; "Hot1073Jamz") –

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/Tyler (Urban Adult Contemporary) * KPLT-FM (107.7 FM; "Mix 107.7") – Paris (

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) * KTBQ (107.7; "Q107") – Nacodgdoches/Lufkin (Classic rock)

=Oklahoma

= * KBWW (88.3; "The Gospel Station") – Broken Bow ( Southern Gospel) * KYHD (94.7; "HD 94.7") – Valliant (News/talk) * KBEL-FM (96.7) – Idabel (Country) * KQIB (102.9; "Q102.9") – Idabel (Hot Adult Contemporary) * KIBE (104.9; "Mountaineer Radio") – Broken Bow ( Variety) * KKBI (106.1; "Best Country 106") – Broken Bow (Country music)

Transportation

Airports

Shreveport Regional Airport (

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: SHV;

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: KSHV), located off Hollywood Avenue in southwestern Shreveport, is the region's primary commercial airport. Established in 1952, Shreveport Regional is served by Allegiant Air (with flights to McCarran International Airport in

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and Orlando Sanford International Airport),

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(to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport),

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(to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport), GLO Airlines (to

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), and

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(as United Express, to

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and Denver International Airport). Shreveport Downtown Airport (IATA: DTN; ICAO: KDTN), built in 1931 and located north of downtown Shreveport along the Red River, is the city's

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airport and also serves as a reliever airport for Shreveport Regional Airport, itself built to replace the Downtown Airport as Shreveport's main commercial airport due to the limited growth that could be made to that facility due to its close proximity of the Red River. General and limited commercial aviation is additionally available at several smaller airfields in the Ark-La-Tex; Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (IATA: TYR; ICAO: KTYR), a city-owned public use airport in Tyler; offers service to and from Dallas/Fort Worth International and, on a seasonal basis, Denver International, respectively, via American Eagle and Frontier Airlines. East Texas Regional Airport (IATA: GGG; ICAO: KGGG), located south of Longview, is used for general aviation and military training but also provides connector service to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport via

and American Eagle. Texarkana Regional Airport (IATA: TXK; ICAO: KTXK), a city-owned public use facility located northeast of Texarkana, Arkansas's

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, mainly provides

travel but is also served by American Eagle. Exclusively general aviation service is provided by Angelina County Airport (IATA: LFK; ICAO: KLFK), located southwest of downtown Lufkin; A.L. Mangham Jr. Regional Airport (IATA: OCH; ICAO: KOCH), located outside Loop 224 northwest of TX State Highway 7; and Natchitoches Regional Airport (ICAO: KIER), located south of downtown Natchitoches.

Major highways

The Ark-La-Tex is an integral point on the United States Interstate Network, with three major interstate highways— Interstate 20, Interstate 30, and

Interstate 49 Interstate 49 (I-49) is a north–south Interstate Highway with multiple segments. The original portion is entirely within Louisiana with an additional signed portion extending from Interstate 220 (Louisiana), I-220 in Shreveport, Louisian ...

—servicing the region, connecting five of the region's largest cities, Tyler, Longview, Marshall, Shreveport and Bossier City. Interstates 20 and 49—the latter of which has its northern terminus at the intersection of the former of the two Interstates—bisect Shreveport, intersecting with I-220 and LA Highway 3132 (which both serve as bypass routes connecting the northern and southern parts of Shreveport) on the city's west side, with U.S. 171 in downtown Shreveport, and with I-220 in central Bossier Parish (north of Barksdale Air Force Base, at which point it begins sharing an overlap with U.S. 71 as it traverses eastward towards Monroe). The region is a point within the planned extension of the otherwise presently disjointed Interstate 69. A branch of the Interstate ( I-369) presently runs north on U.S. 59 within Texas from Tenaha to Texarkana, where the span will eventually connect to Interstates 30 and 49. In response to widespread opposition from environmental groups and property rights activists, the

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(TxDOT) announced in June 2008 that it would complete I-69 through upgrades to the existing spans of U.S. 59, U.S. 77 and U.S. 281 to Interstate standards through rural areas, with bypasses around urban centers along the route, which will be financed through private sector investment. An approximately portion of the I-69 extension to extend from south of

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, to the Louisiana/Texas state line will be built as a new-terrain route that parallels existing U.S. and state highways in some areas. One of the current segments, SIU 16, covers areas of East Texas to the northeast of Nacogdoches, extending until it terminates at U.S. 171 near Stonewall. Another segment, SIU 15, continues over the southern and eastern sections of Shreveport, crossing I-49 and ending at I-20 near Haughton. The third existing segment, SIU 14, extends northeast from I-20 to US 82 near El Dorado, Arkansas.

Interstates

* Interstate 20 * Interstate 30 *

* Interstate 69 (Future) * Interstate 220 (Louisiana) * Interstate 369 (Texas)

U.S. Routes

* U.S. Route 59 * U.S. Route 63 *

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* U.S. Route 69 * U.S. Route 70 * U.S. Route 71 * U.S. Route 79 ** U.S. Route 79 Business * U.S. Route 80 * U.S. Route 82 ** U.S. Route 82 Business * U.S. Route 84 * U.S. Route 167 * U.S. Route 171 * U.S. Route 175 * U.S. Route 259 * U.S. Route 270 * U.S. Route 271 ** U.S. Route 271 Business * U.S. Route 278 * U.S. Route 287 * U.S. Route 371

Texas highways

=State highways

River transportation

River transportation is available through two inland multi-modal transportation and distribution centers along the Red River: the Port of Caddo-Bossier, located at the head of navigation on the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway ( south of Shreveport on LA Highway 1), and the Natchitoches Parish Port, located on Louisiana Highways 6 and 486 (U.S. 71/U.S. 84) in Campti, Louisiana on the only slack water port on the Red River. The Port of Caddo-Bossier began loading its first cargo in 1995, and has () received more than nine million tons of barge freight and over eight million tons of rail freight. The port—which houses more than 17 freight and shipping companies—links the Ark-La-Tex to domestic and international markets via the

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, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Bossier City hosts three riverboat casino gambling resorts along the east bank of the Red River: Margaritaville Resort Casino, Horseshoe Bossier City, and Boomtown Bossier City.

Notable people

* David Abner * Trace Adkins * Duane Allen *

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* Oscar P. Austin * Donna Axum * Sylura Barron * Buster Benton * Raymond Berry * Brian Blade * Dan Blocker * Terry Bradshaw * Lou Brock * Kix Brooks * Willie Brown * Dez Bryant * Jerry Bywaters * Earl Campbell *

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* Burrell Cannon * Claire Lee Chennault * William Childress * John Chisum * Kate Chopin *

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* Johnnie L. Cochran *

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* Gary B.B. Coleman * Barbara Smith Conrad *

Floyd Cramer Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American pianist who became famous for his use of melodic "whole-step" attacks. He was inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His signatur ...

* David Crowder * Bruce M. Davis * Jimmie Davis * Clint Dempsey * Chi Chi DeVayne * Sandy Duncan * James Farmer * Kelli Finglass *

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* Lefty Frizzell * Dannie Flesher * Lane Frost * Euell Gibbons * Johnny Gimble * Kevin Griffin * John Wesley Hardin * Cas Haley * Robert Harling * Charlaine Harris * James Pinckney Henderson * Don Henley *

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* James Stephen "Big Jim" Hogg * William H. Holland *

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* Mike Huckabee * William Humphrey * Lamar Hunt * Alphonso Jackson * Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson * Scott Joplin * Henderson Jordan * Mitchell Kendall * Freddie King * Ben Kweller * Alan Ladd *

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* Joe R. Lansdale *

Tracy Lawrence Tracy Lee Lawrence (born January 27, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Atlanta, Texas, and raised in Foreman, Arkansas, Lawrence began performing at age 15 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 19 ...

* Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter * Opal Lee *

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* Shannon Leto * Marguerite Littman * Horace Logan * Joshua Logan * Huey Long * Patrick Mahomes * Jeff Mangum * Johnny Mathis * Robert N. McClelland * Sarah McClendon * Matthew McConaughey * William Johnson McDonald * Neal McCoy * Don Meredith * Mary Miles Minter * Craig Monroe * Bill Moyers * Kacey Musgraves * Margie Neal * Huey P. Newton *

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* John Osteen * Wright Patman * Ross Perot * Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim * Anita Pointer * Parker Posey * Ray Price * Kevin Rahm * Homer P. Rainey *

Collin Raye Floyd Elliot Wray (born August 22, 1960), known professionally as Collin Raye and previously as Bubba Wray, is an American country music singer. He initially recorded as a member of the band The Wrays between 1983 and 1987. He made his solo debut ...

* Jim Reeves * Tex Ritter * Phil Robertson * Eddie Robinson *

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* Billy Sims * Shangela * Kenny Wayne Shepherd * Allan Shivers * Tommie Smith * Sissy Spacek * Gene Stallings * Hal Sutton * Bettye Swann * B. J. Thomas *

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* J.D. Tippet * David Toms * Jeremiah Trotter * Tommy Tuberville * Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker * Walter Prescott Webb * Forest Whitaker * Hank Williams, Jr. * John Edward Williams * Richard Williams * Romeo M. Williams * Victoria Williams * Wallace Willis * Dooley Wilson * Lee Ann Womack * Andrea Yates * Faron Young

Notes

References

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Etymology

Geography

Definition

Louisiana (13 parishes)

Arkansas (10 counties)

Oklahoma (one county)

Texas (16 counties)

Climate

Communities

Largest cities

Metropolitan and micropolitan areas

Metropolitan statistical areas

Micropolitan statistical areas

Culture

Education

Colleges and universities

Media

Newspapers

TV

Shreveport/Texarkana (Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas)

El Dorado/Monroe (South Central Arkansas and North Central Louisiana)

Tyler/Lufkin (East Texas)

Radio

AM stations

=Arkansas

=Louisiana

=Texas

=Oklahoma

FM stations

=Arkansas

=Louisiana

=Texas

=Oklahoma

Transportation

Airports

Major highways

Interstates

U.S. Routes

Texas highways

=State highways

=State highway loops

Louisiana state highways

Arkansas state highways

Oklahoma state highways

River transportation

Notable people

Notes

References