Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Carroll County
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Eureka Springs is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and next Berryville one of two administrative seats of Carroll County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. In 2010 Eureka Springs had 2073 inhabitants.
Geography
Eureka Springs is located at 36 ° 24'04 " north latitude and 93 ° 44'17 " west longitude and extending over 18 km ². The city is located in the Ozarks, near the White River, a right tributary of the Mississippi River. The border with Missouri is located 14 km north; Oklahoma starts about 100 km west.
The city is the center of Cedar Township, but extends to a part also to the Winona Township.
Towns nearby Eureka Springs, Eagle Rock, Missouri (24,1 km to the north), Berryville (20,5 km east-southeast ) and Clantonville (26,3 km to the northwest ).
The nearest large towns are Arkansas ' capital Little Rock (293 km southeast), Tulsa, Oklahoma (238 miles west), Kansas City, Missouri ( 369 km north ), St. Louis ( 486 km northeast ) and Memphis, Tennessee ( 440 km east-southeast ).
Traffic
In the city of Eureka Springs off U.S. Highway 62 crosses the Arkansas State Route 23 All other roads are minor roads and urban roads.
With the Carroll County Airport is located 15.4 km east of Eureka Springs, a small airfield. The Branson Airport is 83.1 kilometers north-east. Other airports are in the surrounding area Little Rock (298 km south-east ), the Drake Field in Fayetteville ( 80.1 km southwest ) and Tulsa (232 miles west).
History
The Native Americans of the region knew about the healing properties of various sources on the territory of the present town of Eureka Springs.
Finds of old objects occupy in a cave that Spanish conquistadors were the first Europeans in the region.
Dr. Alvah Jackson, one of the early pioneers in the region is listed in later documents in 1856 as the " discoverer " of the healing springs. In a cave Jackson taught during the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier for a hospital.
The judge JB Sounders made from 1879 through the sources, the sources nationally known. On July 4, 1879 a large number people camped at the place and founded the settlement of Eureka Springs, which was raised one years later to the city.
In 1882 Eureka Springs got a connection to the railway network, which the number of guests allowed to rise further. As a result, a number of larger hotels were built, such as the 1886 Crescent Hotel and the 1905 Basin Park Hotel.
The Ozarka Water Company, which bottled spring water bottled and sold nationwide, was founded in 1905 in Eureka Springs. Under the brand name " Ozarka " Water is sold by today to Nestlé owned company in Arkansas and surrounding states even today.
1980 Thor Crown Chapel was built on the western outskirts of Eureka Springs.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Eureka Springs 2073 people in 1069 households. The population density was 115.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1069 households lived statistically 1.88 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 91.6 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 1.3 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 2.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 4.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
13.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.5 percent were 65 years or older. 53.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 23,938. The per capita income was $ 18,363. 24 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.