Bentonville, Arkansas
Bentonville, Arkansas Clockwise, from top: Downtown Bentonville, Benton County Courthouse, Sam Walton's initial Walton's Five and Dime store, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Confederate Soldier Monument Clockwise, from top: Downtown Bentonville, Benton County Courthouse, Sam Walton's initial Walton's Five and Dime store, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Confederate Soldier Monument Location in Benton County and the state of Arkansas Location in Benton County and the state of Arkansas Bentonville is the tenth-largest town/city in Arkansas and the governmental center of county of Benton County. The town/city is centrally positioned in the county with Rogers adjoining to the east.
The town/city is the command posts of Walmart, which is the world's biggest retailer. Originally titled Osage after the Osage Indians who hunted in the region when white pioneer first moved to the region in 1837, the improve was retitled to Bentonville in 1843 with respect to Missouri politician Thomas Hart Benton and was first incorporated on April 3, 1873. It is one of the four chief cities in the four-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is ranked 109th in terms of populace in the United States with 463,204 in 2010 as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau.
The Walmart Visitor Center is positioned on the Bentonville town square in Sam Walton's initial Walton's Five and Dime, and the business command posts includes fifteen buildings along Walton Boulevard (US 71 - B) in the part of the city.
Just north of downtown Bentonville is the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Founded by Alice Walton in 2011, this exhibition contains many masterpieces from all eras of American art, including many works from Walton's private collection. Across the square from the Walmart Visitor Center is the Benton County Courthouse, the center of the county government.
Bentonville High School is positioned just west of Interstate 49/US Route 71 in central Bentonville.
Welcome to Bentonville board put up at many entrances of the town/city The region now known as Bentonville's first known use by humans was as hunting grounds by the Osage Nation who lived in Missouri.
Upon establishment of Benton County on September 30, 1836, Osage was deemed a suitable site for the county seat, and the town square was established as the home of county government the following year.
Osage was retitled Bentonville with respect to Thomas Hart Benton, a senator from Missouri who firmly supported Arkansas statehood. The Osage postal service was established on December 31, 1836, and retitled Bentonville on January 3, 1843. The Terry Block Building is the southwest corner of the Bentonville Town Square.
Two years after Arkansas received statehood in 1836, thousands of Cherokee citizens from Georgia passed through Benton County as part of the Trail of Tears route to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
Although no Civil War battles were fought inside Bentonville, the town/city was occupied by both armies and saw almost all of its buildings burned, either by opposing armies or guerrilla outlaws.
The town/city began to rebuild about a decade after incorporation on April 3, 1873, with many of these Reconstruction Era buildings today serving as the earliest structures in Bentonville.
After the war, the region established a vibrant apple industry, with Benton County becoming the dominant apple producing county in the country in 1901.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 31.5 square miles (81.6 km2), of which 31.3 square miles (81.0 km2) is territory and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km2), or 0.67%, is water. The Fayetteville Springdale Rogers Metropolitan Area consists of three Arkansas counties: Benton, Madison, and Washington, and Mc - Donald County, Missouri.
The Metropolitan Travel Destination does not consist of the usual principal-city-with-suburbs morphology; instead Bentonville is bordered to the east by Rogers, the north by Bella Vista, and the west by Centerton.
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport is positioned to the southwest of Bentonville and is used to connect all of the northwest Arkansas region to the rest of the nation.
Climate data for Bentonville, Arkansas (1981 2010 normals) As of 2010 Bentonville had a populace of 35,301.
The town/city interval substantially in the 1990s; the 1990 populace was 11,257 and the town/city is expected to reach 50,000 citizens by the year 2030.
According to the US Census, Bentonville and encircling communities in Benton County is second in expansion for Arkansas and among the 100 fastest-growing counties in the United States. Bentonville is home to a momentous large Hispanic immigrant community, consisting of Mexicans and nationalities from Central America such as El Salvador and Honduras, came to find blue-collar jobs in the area's booming economy amid the 1990s and 2000s.
Bentonville is a prominent real estate destination for senior people and families with young kids for quite some time, due to relative affordability, lower crime rates for a town/city its size and a civil conservative culture known in Northwest Arkansas.
Bentonville and Benton County is said to have the most registered Republican voters of the state. 4 Bentonville School District 5 Benton County, Arkansas 6 City of Bentonville Although impacted by the Great Recession, NWA's economy fared better than most peer urbane areas, the state of Arkansas and the United States overall.
Bentonville's town/city hall is positioned at 117 W.
Central adjoining to the town square in Downtown Bentonville Bentonville has been home to Walmart since Sam Walton purchased a store on the town square in 1950 and retitled it Walton's 5 & 10.
The retailer continued a rapid growth, but Helen Walton wished to remain in Bentonville to raise the family, and thus by the time Walmart became the #1 Fortune 500 in 2002, it was still based in Bentonville.
The impact from the Walmart Home Office is multiplied by the over 1100 prospective Walmart vendors who have established revenue offices in the region. The large number of satellite offices for companies of almost every trade means a large number of transplants from around the United States can be found in Bentonville. This phenomenon impacts the culture of Bentonville in addition to the city's economy.
Bentonville's culture is a combination of a Southern city, small town, global company hub, and the encircling Northwest Arkansas metro.
Bentonville shares many of the characteristics generally given to Arkansas as a Southern state, yet it has also combined minor cultural influence from the Midwest and West.
Located firmly in the Mid-South, Bentonville's culture is distinct and differs from the Delta portion of the state.
Many of the city's first pioneer came from Upper South states like Kentucky North Carolina and Tennessee, who found the Ozarks familiar to the Appalachian Mountains back home. The uplands of Arkansas, including Northwest Arkansas, did not participate in large-scale plantation farming with slaves like the Arkansas delta, instead electing to settle in small clusters, relying largely on subsistence agriculture and hunting clean water the settlement patters common in the Midwest and Deep South.
Due to Walmart's eminence in the city, Bentonville is also an global focal point for retail suppliers and other supporting businesses.
According to the Bentonville-Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce, over 1,250 suppliers have offices in Northwest Arkansas in an attempt to secure or retain Walmart's business. Symbolic of Bentonville's complex culture was a cricket game played between Pepsi - Co and Walmart, spectated by their respective chief executives Indra Nooyi and Doug Mc - Millon, chronicled in a Wall Street Journal article describing the complex Bentonville culture. The game was played on a baseball field in Bentonville not well suited for typical cricket, so the players adapted new rules.
The town/city has a league with 18 squads and a host of fans, mostly derived from the thousands of Indian natives drawn to Bentonville by Walmart software and IT jobs.
From the Walmart Museum on the downtown square to the over a dozen buildings spread throughout the city, Walmart's Home Office has a existence throughout Bentonville.
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport has direct commercial flights from many large destination metros/cities not typical of airports its size due to the supplier community. Bentonville High School has programs to assist the sizeable transient student population, including global students, for those who have recently relocated to Bentonville.
Sam Walton's initial Walton's Five and Dime, now the Walmart Visitor's Center on Bentonville town square Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a $450,000,000 exhibition of American Art designed by architect Moshe Safdie positioned inside walking distance of downtown Bentonville. See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Arkansas Bentonville contains over 30 listings on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the official federal list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation.
The town/city contains two residentiary historic districts, the Third Street Historic District and West Central Avenue Historic District.
Residential listing elsewhere in the town/city include the Peel Mansion Museum, Stroud House and Col.
Also encompassed in the NRHP are historic enhance structures, such as the Benton County Courthouse, Benton County Jail, Bentonville High School, commercial structures such as the Benton County National Bank, Massey Hotel, Roy's Office Supply Building, and the Terry Block Building, and two cemeteries.
The Bentonville Parks and Recreation Department maintains eighteen parks and over 20 miles (32 km) of trails.
Over 300 acres (120 ha) of town/city parks throughout the town/city offer educational, recreational and outdoors opportunities to park visitors.
The biggest park surrounds Lake Bella Vista and includes a prominent perimeter public trail and disc golf course. Memorial park features the Melvin Ford Aquatic Center as well as baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball, skateboard, softball and soccer facilities. The four baseball fields at Merchants Baseball Park have hosted the Bentonville Youth Baseball League since its inception in 1954. Park Springs Park was created in the 1890s following the discernment of two springs with purported healing powers.
Trails in Bentonville vary from small public trails to long mountain bike trails to the county-wide Razorback Greenway depending upon topography, intended use and town/city planning.
The Northwest Arkansas Razorback Regional Greenway, a 36-mile (58 km) primarily off-road different use trail connecting the Northwest Arkansas region, runs through Bentonville near Bentonville High School, the Walmart Home Office, and Crystal Bridges on its way to Lake Bella Vista to the north.
The Crystal Bridges Trail is a 1 mile (1.6 km) trail between downtown Bentonville and the exhibition, assembled by the exhibition and donated to the city.
After passing by an overlook where trail users can view the exhibition from a bluff, the Crystal Bridges Trail joins to the exhibition's 3-mile (4.8 km) trail system. The town/city also has a several trails connecting chief streets, parks and neighborhoods throughout the city.
Bentonville City Hall at 117 W.
The mayor is propel by a citywide election to serve as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the town/city by presiding over all town/city council meetings, laws are enforced and taxpayer funds are spent prudently.
The town/city council is the unicameral legislative body of the city, consisting of eight members.
Public elementary and secondary education is provided by Bentonville Public Schools dominant to graduation at Bentonville High School or Bentonville West High School.
Bentonville is home to the Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC), a enhance two-year college that provides students undergraduate, vocational, longterm position and technical education courses.
Main Street, which provides inhabitants with access to print books, publications and multimedia content, as well as a satellite locale at the Bentonville Community Center in the southwestern section of the city.
Bentonville has one primary provider of enhance transportation, Ozark Regional Transit, which operates in Benton/Washington Counties and is a broad bus-based fixed-route county-wide transit system.
The City of Bentonville owns and operates a municipal water fitness that provides services to industrial, commercial and residentiary customers.
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