| Arkansas
The official state flag of
Arkansas was chosen in a design
contest in 1913. The diamond
shapes in the center represent
the diamond gemstone, because
Arkansas is the only state in
the USA where diamonds have
been found. The twenty-five
white stars around the diamond
mean that Arkansas was the twenty-fifth
state to join the Union. The
top of four stars in the center
represents that Arkansas was
a member of the Confederate
States during the Civil War.
The other three stars represent
Spain, France and the United
States, countries that had earlier
ruled the land that includes
Arkansas.
Originally part of the Louisiana
Purchase of 1803, Arkansas was
organized into a territory in
1819 with same northern, eastern
and southern borders it shares
today. Arkansas was admitted
to the United States in 1836
as the 25th state. The name
Arkansas is derived from a Quapaw
Indian word meaning "downstream
people".
Arkansas weather is pleasant
and usually never gets extremely
cold or hot. On average summer
highs are 80 degrees, with winters
lows average in the 40s. Rainfall
on average is near 50 inches
a year and snow does fall in
the northwest and west. The
growing season ranges from 180
days on the high plateau in
the northwest to 240 days in
the southeastern part of the
state.
The capital and largest city
is Little Rock. Arkansas is
bordered to the north by Missouri;
east by the Mississippi River,
which separates it from Mississippi
and Tennessee; south by Louisiana;
and west by Oklahoma and Texas.
Arkansas has approximately 9,750
miles of streams and 453,870
acres are lakes and is known
throughout the country for its
natural beauty, clear lakes
and streams and abundance of
natural wildlife. This is the
reason Arkansas is known as
"The Natural State".
The state produces all crops
normally grown in the temperate
zone. The major agriculture
in the state is poultry and
eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle,
cotton, rice, hogs, milk. The
industry food processing, electric
equipment, fabricated metal
products, machinery, paper products,
bromine, vanadium.
There are 75 Counties in the
State of Arkansas which vary
from the rich Delta farmlands
of the Mississippi River valley
to the rolling hills and gently
sloped mountains of the Ozarks
and Ouachitas:
Arkansas
Ashley
Baxter Benton Boone
Bradley Calhoun
Carroll Chicot
Clark Clay
Cleburne Cleveland Columbia
Conway Craighead
Crawford Crittenden
Cross Dallas Desha
Drew Faulkner Franklin
Fulton Garland
Grant Greene
Hempstead Hot
Spring Howard
Independence Izard Jackson
Jefferson Johnson
Lafayette Lawrence
Lee Lincoln
Little River
Logan Lonoke
Madison Marion
Miller Mississippi
Monroe Montgomery
Nevada Newton
Ouachita Perry Phillips
Pike Poinsett
Polk Pope Prairie
Pulaski Randolph
Saline Scott
Searcy Sebastian
Sevier Sharp
St. Francis Stone
Union Van Buren Washington
White Woodruff
Yell
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