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Nix Creek
Nix Creek is a creek in the Texarkana metropolitan area. The creek is mainly situated in Texarkana, Arkansas, but briefly crosses the border into Texarkana, Texas where it meets Days Creek alongside Swampoodle Creek. The creek passes under U.S. Route 82 U.S. Route 82 (US 82) is an east–west United States highway in the Southern United States. Created on July 1, 1931 across central Mississippi and southern Arkansas, US 82 eventually became a route extending from the White Sands of New .... References Rivers of Arkansas Rivers of Texas Miller County, Arkansas Bowie County, Texas {{Texas ...
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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 across the state line. The city was founded at a railroad intersection on December 8, 1873, and was incorporated in Arkansas on August 10, 1880. Texarkana and its Texas counterpart are the principal cities of the Texarkana metropolitan area, which in 2021 was ranked 289th in the United States with a population of 147,174, according to the United States Census Bureau. Within the Ark-La-Tex subregion of southwest Arkansas, Texarkana is located in the Piney Woods, an oak–hickory forest that dominates the flat Gulf Coastal Plain. Texarkana's economy is based on agriculture. The city has long been a trading center, first located at the intersection of major railroads serving Texas, Arkansas and north into Missouri. Since then three major Int ...
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Texarkana, Texas
Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately from Dallas, Texarkana is a twin cities, twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2020 census. The city and its Texarkana, Arkansas, Arkansas counterpart form the core of the Texarkana metropolitan area, Texarkana metropolitan statistical area, encompassing all of Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas. The two cities had a combined population of 65,580 in the 2020 decennial census, and the metropolitan area had a population of 149,482. History Railroads were quick to see the possibilities of connecting markets in this vast area. In the late 1850s, the builders of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad were pushing their line steadily south across Arkansas. By 1874, they crossed the Red River of the South, Red River and reached the Texas state line. Between February 16 and March 19, 1874, trains ran between the Texas ...
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Texarkana Metropolitan Area
The Texarkana metropolitan statistical area (MSA), as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is a two-county region anchored by the twin cities of Texarkana, Texas (population 37,333) and Texarkana, Arkansas (population 30,259), and encompassing surrounding communities in Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas. As of the 2016 census, the MSA had a population of 150,098. Texarkana is a subset of the broader Ark-La-Tex region. History Texarkana Texarkana was founded in 1873 on the junction of two railroads. The name is a portmanteau of Texas, Arkansas, and nearby Louisiana. One tradition tells of a Red River steamboat named ''The Texarkana'', c. 1860. Another story mentions a storekeeper named Swindle in Red Land, Louisiana who concocted a drink called "Texarkana Bitters". A third account states that Col. Gus Knobel, a railroad surveyor, coined the name. Local lore suggests that, before Texas's annexation by the US, lawlessness ruled in the a ...
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Days Creek (Arkansas)
Days Creek is a creek in the Texarkana metropolitan area. The creek forms in southern Texarkana, Texas when the Nix Creek and Swampoodle Creek meet, before flowing south where Wagner Creek meets the creek near the Arkansas border. The creek then passes into Arkansas flowing east where it meets Sulphur River The Sulphur River is a river in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas in the United States. It is a tributary of the Red River. Geography The Sulphur River begins at the confluence of its north and south forks forming (following earlier mean ... south-west of Fouke. References Rivers of Arkansas Rivers of Texas Miller County, Arkansas Bowie County, Texas {{Texas ...
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Swampoodle Creek
Swampoodle Creek is a creek in Bowie County, Texas. The creek rises in northern Texarkana and flows south, under several major highways including U.S. Route 82 and U.S. Route 67 before meeting Days Creek, alongside Nix Creek near the 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 ... border. References Rivers of Texas Bowie County, Texas {{Texas ...
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Rivers Of Arkansas
This article is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Arkansas. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Red River * Mississippi River ** Red River *** ''Black River (LA)'' **** ''Tensas River (LA)'' ***** Bayou Macon **** Ouachita River ***** Boeuf River ***** ''Bayou D'Arbonne (LA)'' ****** Cornie Bayou ***** Bayou Bartholomew ***** Saline River ****** Hurricane Creek ***** Moro Creek ***** Smackover Creek ***** Little Missouri River ****** Terre Noire Creek ****** Terre Rouge Creek ****** Antoine River ****** Hickory Creek ***** Caddo River *** ''Loggy Bayou (LA)'' **** ''Flat River (LA)'' ***** ''Red Chute Bayou (LA)'' ****** Bodcau Bayou and Creek **** Bayou Dorcheat *** Sulphur River *** McKinney Bayou *** Little River **** Saline River **** Cossatot River ***** Little Cossatot River **** Rolling Fork **** Mountain Fork Arkansas River * Mississippi River ** Ar ...
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Rivers Of Texas
The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers accounting for over of waterways. All of the state's waterways drain towards the Mississippi River, the Texas Gulf Coast, or the Rio Grande, with mouths located in seven major estuaries. Seasonal and restrictive waterways * Aransas River * Armand Bayou * Arroyo Colorado * Attoyac Bayou * Austin Bayou * Barton Creek *Bastrop Bayou * Bedias Creek * Beech Creek * Big Cow Creek * Big Cypress Bayou * Big Cypress Creek * Big Mineral Creek * Big Pine Creek * Big Sandy Creek * Bois D'Arc Creek * Buffalo Bayou *Caney Creek (Red River tributary) * Catfish Creek * Cedar Bayou * Chacon Creek * Cibolo Creek * Clear Creek * Coffee Mill Creek * Coleto Creek * Comal River * Buffalo Soldier Draw * Denton Creek * Dickinson Bayou * Double Bayou, East Fork ...
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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. Miller County is part of the Texarkana, TX-AR, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History When first formed, Miller County was Arkansas's sixth county, established on April 1, 1820, and named for James Miller (general), James Miller, the first governor of the Arkansas Territory. Additionally, Miller County was the first of the state's counties to be formed upon the creation of the Arkansas Territory. The first five — Arkansas County, Arkansas, Arkansas, Lawrence County, Arkansas, Lawrence, Clark County, Arkansas, Clark, Hempstead County, Arkansas, Hempstead and Pulaski County, Arkansas, Pulaski — were formed during Arkansas's days as part of the Missouri Territory. This county was abolished in 1838. During the Reconstruction era, it was o ...
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