McCrory is a city in
Woodruff County,
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 ...
, United States. The population was 1,583 at the
2020 census.
The
McCrory Commercial Historic District, the
McCrory Waterworks, and the
Dr. John William Morris Clinic are all listed on the
National Register of Historic Places listings in Woodruff County, Arkansas.
History
The town began to get organized when word spread in 1886 that local land had been donated by one Wade McCrory to the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway for their projected route from
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...
to
Little Rock
Little Rock is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Arkansas, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 as of the 2020 census. The six-county Central Arkan ...
.
The first train actually arrived the next year, and the town was formally incorporated on January 30, 1890.
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Given that another railway called the Batesville and Brinkley Railroad had in the early 1880’s built two miles west of town, local McCrory businessmen in 1906 tried to leverage their railroad connections by creating a tramway running from McCrory directly to the Batesville & Brinkley, at a point originally known as Martin’s Junction, later Jelks, and finally becoming Patterson in 1919.][ The original plan was to run from McCrory north-northeast to the timber processing town of Beedeville, but this was quickly modified to include an extension west from McCrory to Jelks, replacing the tramway.][ Financial problems occurred almost immediately, but the line was extended about another 4 miles to around Odessa, Arkansas by November 1912, and about another three-and-a-half miles to a point known as Langley Junction by November 1913.][ This gave the railroad a final line of about eleven-and-a-half miles of track from Jelks to Langley Junction, which was still about three-and-a-half miles short of Beedeville.][ The railroad went bankrupt and was out of business by 1914, with the rails removed soon after.][
]
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,583 people, 741 households, and 500 families residing in the city.
Education
McCrory provides public education from the McCrory School District including the McCrory High School
McCrory High School is a secondary school in McCrory, Arkansas, United States. The school is the only secondary school serving grades 7 through 12 in the McCrory School District.
Academics
The assumed course of study follows the Smart Core cur ...
.
References
External links
City website
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Cities in Arkansas
Cities in Woodruff County, Arkansas