Ashdown (Arkansas)

Little River County

05-02380

Ashdown is a small town and the county seat ( county seat ) of the Little River counties in Arkansas. The total area of the village is 18.5 km ². In an estimate made in 2007, the city had 4,446 inhabitants.

Ashdown is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

Demography

In the 2000 census, the town had 4,781 inhabitants, distributed among 1,880 households and 1,287 families. The population density was 259.6 inhabitants thus / km ². 62.85 % of the population were white, 34.09 % African American. In 32.5 % of households were living children under 18 years. The average income was 26,754 dollars per household, with 18.9 % of the population were below the poverty line.

History

The Little River County was from areas of Sevier and Hempstead counties founded in 1867. 1906, the administrative center of the county of Foreman was moved to Ashdown. In 1907, a new courthouse. 1912 gabes a railway connection. This was followed Eletrizität and telephone. Ashdon suffered from the Great Depression and many farmers sold perforce in the 1930s their country.