Nashville (Arkansas)
Howard County
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Nashville is the county seat of Howard County in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Covering an area of nearly 12 square kilometers, about 4,600 people live.
Nashville is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
History
The city was founded in 1873. Previously to 1835, the mine Creek Baptist Church was built on the present town area. In the following years, but especially since 1940, numerous settlers established the village streets and established a post office. First official name of the city was mine Creek, but she was also known as Hell's Valley or Pleasant Valley. As 1953 Michael Womack moved from Nashville in Tennessee in the place, he named it after his hometown.
1905 was relocated to Nashville the county seat of Centre Point. In 1922 the railway line was extended to include routes to Ashdown and Murfreesboro. Gained international recognition of the place in 1983, when an archeology student discovered a sauropod dinosaur tracks. On the whole path, which could be exposed, ultimately over 5000 different tracks could be identified, some of which have more than 100 million years old. The tracks were never excavated at full length, so that today are to be seen in museums only a few individual tracks.
Demography
In the United States Census 2000, the town had 4878 inhabitants in 1857 households and 1179 families. The population density was thus about 412 persons per square kilometer. 60 % of the urban population were white, 30.2 % black, 7% Hispanic or Latino, 5.3% Native American, 1.2 % Asian and Pacific Islanders at 0.1 %. 4.4% belonged to another ethnicity, 1% were from two or more ethnicities. The average age was 35 years, the per capita income in excess of 13,200 dollars.
Until the 2010 census, the population has declined slightly to 4627.
Education
In Nashville is an outdoor campus of Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas. The 2006 built to the west of the city campus is approximately 140,000 square meters, there seven teaching areas are offered.
Personalities
Boyd Anderson Tackett, a former MP in the House of Representatives of the United States, began his legal career including in Nashville and lived here, even after his retirement from politics.