Beebe, Arkansas Beebe, Arkansas Flag of Beebe, Arkansas Flag Official seal of Beebe, Arkansas Location in White County and the state of Arkansas Location in White County and the state of Arkansas Beebe, Arkansas is a town/city in White County, Arkansas, United States.

The town/city is home to a branch ground of Jonesboro-based Arkansas State University.

It was titled for Roswell Beebe, a barns executive responsible for bringing the rail line that runs through the city.

Beebe High School The city's education corridor is among the most prominent aspects in Beebe, with the city's enhance schools grouped in an extensive ground situated athwart the street from Arkansas State University Beebe.

The enhance school precinct interval in 2004 when schools from close-by Mc - Rae were merged into the district, which today serves most of southwestern and south-central White County proceeding westward to El Paso, eastward to Garner, and to other communities in between.

Beebe's precinct also includes the command posts of a four-county educational service cooperative titled for noted former U.S.

Public education is supported by the Beebe School District consisting of: Beebe High School (9-12) Beebe Junior High School (7-8) Beebe Middle School (5-6) Beebe Elementary School (1-4) Beebe Early Childhood School (KG-1) Founded as the Junior Agricultural School of Central Arkansas in 1927, Arkansas State University Beebe's ground has evolved and grown to turn into a center for long-distance learning and technical trade programs in central Arkansas.

The school has been affiliated with the Arkansas State University System since 1955.

State Hall, the campus' administration building constructed in 1949, is among both the earliest buildings on the ground and in Beebe's educational community.

US 64 joins Beebe with the burgeoning city of Conway, positioned 35 miles (56 km) west of Beebe.

Route 67 - B starts from just east of US 67/US 167 at Exit 28 and goes east into downtown Beebe and then north from downtown Beebe back to US 64/US 67/US 167 as it is a concurrent highway with Arkansas Highway 31 (North Main Street).

Beebe is also served by Arkansas Highway 367 (De - Witt Henry Drive), which is a former alignment of US 67 before to the building of the US 67/US 167 freeway.

Just outside the town/city limits of Beebe, the non-urban areas are served by Highway 321, Highway 267, and Highway 13.

Just like many suburbs in central and north central Arkansas, Beebe was formed near a barns and the Union Pacific barns tracks traverse through the south and east portions of town.

The town/city of Searcy has the nearest airport, as the Searcy Regional Airport is positioned 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Beebe.

Passenger service is available at Clinton National Airport, approximately 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Beebe on the east side of the town/city of Little Rock.

Beebe made global news in early January 2011 following the death of more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds and European starlings over the community.

Further investigation revealed the birds fell over a one-mile (1.6 km) region of Beebe, with no other dead birds found outside that concentrated zone.

The birds were sent to laboratories in Georgia and Wisconsin for necropsies and to determine the cause of death. On January 5, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission confirmed that the incident was caused by a resident setting off professional-grade fireworks, startling the birds into a panic flight. On New Year's Eve 2011, a several hours before entering into 2012, blackbirds again were reported to be falling to the ground in Beebe.

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