List of Counties

List of Towns

Points of Interest

Capital: Little Rock

Largest city: Little Rock

Highest point: Mount Magazine

Lowest point: Ouachita River

Admission to Union: June 15, 1836 (25th)

Amtrak's Texas Eagle makes several stops in Arkansas daily on its run from Chicago to San Antonio and Los Angeles.

Wal-Mart, is headquartered in Bentonville

Visit Altus in Arkansas's wine country 

Six geographic regions: Ouachitas, Timberlands, Delta, River Valley, Central and Ozarks

It's finder's keepers at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. North America's only diamond mine open to the public.

Hot Springs National Park. People have used the hot springs here for more than two hundred years to treat illnesses and to relax.

Visitors are amused by some of Arkansas's colorful place names such as Hogeye, Greasy Corner, Ink, Snowball, Romance, Apt, and Smackover, others are attempting to learn and record how communities and landmarks received their identities.

Riddle’s Elephant Sanctuary near Greenbrier is the only internationally recognized sanctuary which accepts any elephant regardless of species, gender, or disposition.

The Arkansas-Texas border runs through the center of the U.S. Post Office Building at Texarkana. 

Tyson’s, Inc., headquartered in Springdale, is the world’s largest poultry producing plant. 

State of Arkansas

About Arkansas

The first European to reach Arkansas was the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto at the end of the 16th century. Arkansas is one of several U.S. states formed from the territory purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte in the Louisiana Purchase.

Hattie Caraway of Jonesboro became the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate

One of every five Confederate casualties at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee on April 6-7, 1862, was from Arkansas. 

Clinton Presidential Library is in Little Rock