El Dorado, Arkansas El Dorado, Arkansas Jefferson Street in downtown El Dorado's Union Square District Jefferson Street in downtown El Dorado's Union Square District Location in Union County and the state of Arkansas Location in Union County and the state of Arkansas El Dorado, Arkansas is positioned in Arkansas El Dorado, Arkansas - El Dorado, Arkansas Location in Union County and the state of Arkansas Body El Dorado City Council US 63.svg US 82.svg US 167.svg Arkansas 7.svg Arkansas 15.svg El Dorado is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Union County, Arkansas, USA. According to estimates, the 2012 census, the populace of the town/city is 18,491, which represents a diminish of 2.1 percent from the 2010 tabulation of 18,884. El Dorado is command posts of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission as well as Murphy Oil, Murphy USA, Deltic Timber Corporation, and the Lion Oil Refinery.
The town/city contains a improve college, South Arkansas Community College ("South - Ark"), a multi-cultural arts center: South Arkansas Arts Center (SAAC), an award-winning renovated downtown, and various sporting, shopping, and dining opportunities.
El Dorado is the population, cultural, and market seat of the county-wide area.
El Dorado is positioned about 100 miles (160 km) from the state capital of Little Rock.
4.1.3.1 El Dorado Promise 4.1.3.2 New El Dorado High School 5.4.1 El Dorado Golf and Country Club 5.4.2 El Dorado Racquet Club 6.1.1 South Arkansas Arts Center 6.3.1 El Dorado Conference Center El Dorado is positioned at 33 12 49 N 92 39 45 W (33.213521, -92.662553). in Union County, Arkansas in the southern part of the state.
Union County is the biggest county in the state of Arkansas and borders the state of Louisiana.
El Dorado is the biggest urban populace center in its region.
El Dorado is positioned in the West Gulf Coastal Plain: In Arkansas, the West Gulf Coastal Plain covers the southeastern and south central portions of the state along the border of Louisiana.
The lowest point in the state is found on the Ouachita River in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas. El Dorado is positioned about 28 miles (45 km) to the west of Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, the world's biggest green tree reservoir.
El Dorado is positioned in the humid subtropical zone (Koppen climate classification: Cfa). El Dorado is hot amid summer when temperatures tend to be in the 90's and cool amid winter when temperatures tend to be in the 50's.
The annual average rain at El Dorado is 54.11 inches.
Climate data for El Dorado El Dorado Chamber of Commerce building is positioned downtown.
Regions Bank in El Dorado El Dorado News-Times office El Dorado was an petroleum boom town in the 1920s.
El Dorado has two airports, one commercial and a small general aviation airport, both of which are owned by the city.
The South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field offers mostly private airplane , as well as commercial service via one airline carrier. El Dorado's second airport is positioned inside the town/city limits and closer to the downtown area.
The El Dorado Downtown Airport has flights in and out for small-town industries, including Fortune 500 petroleum and gas companies and those who own small private planes have the option to lease or own their own hangar.
El Dorado water is served locally by El Dorado Water Utilities, a private business categorized under Water and Sewage Companies-Utility.
Other utility companies serving El Dorado and encircling areas include Centerpoint Energy (natural gas), Southern Lp-Gas Inc (Liquid Gas), Bcs Inc (Commercial and Residential Bottled Gas, Metered Gas Service), Suddenlink Television (Cable TV, Internet and Phone), Verizon Wireless, AT&T (residential and wireless phone services), among others.
The town/city and encircling area is served by the Medical Center of South Arkansas, MCSA, accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, is a general acute-care hospital licensed by the Arkansas Department of Health.
The Cardiovascular Services Center, positioned on the ground of the Medical Center of South Arkansas, is a county-wide prestige in cardiovascular care, offering one of the biggest and most elected programs, from cardiac to interventional to surgical care.
Chaplaincy Services and Education at MCSA provides spiritual care, emotional support, and crisis ministry to Medical Center of South Arkansas patients, their families, and MCSA employees. More than 4,600 students attend the 9 El Dorado enhance schools in the El Dorado School District #15.
El Dorado High School (9-12) El Dorado Promise Starting with the class of 2007, The El Dorado Promise is a unique scholarship program established and funded by Murphy Oil Corporation.
The Promise provides graduates of El Dorado High School with a scholarship covering tuition and mandatory fees that can be used at any accredited two- or four-year enhance or private educational institution in the US.
New El Dorado High School Murphy Oil's $50 t to education in El Dorado set the wheels in motion for the new school.
Owner: El Dorado Public School District #15 South Arkansas Community College (South - Ark), is a enhance two-year institution providing educational programs, services, and resources for students.
West Side Baptist Church operates a PK-12 undertaking ground in El Dorado.
El Dorado Recreation Complex and Pavilion has a playground area, multiple baseball/softball facilities and two spacious pavilions.
It is home of the El Dorado High School Wildcat Baseball Field and Ladycat Softball Field.
The South Arkansas Arboretum is an arboretum and botanical garden owned by the small-town school fitness but directed as Arkansas's 50th state park by the South Arkansas Community College.
It is positioned next to the old El Dorado High School on Timberlane street and is open daily except for holidays.
Opened in 1965, the arboretum is Arkansas's only state park positioned inside a city.
El Dorado Golf and Country Club The 18-hole "El Dorado" course at the El Dorado Golf & Country Club facility features 6,449 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71.
Designed by Herman Hackbarth, the El Dorado golf course opened in 1925. El Dorado Racquet Club Memorial Stadium is a fully equipped 6,000-seat football stadium and track, and home of the El Dorado Wildcats.
South Arkansas Arts Center El Dorado has been a county-wide center for the performing arts for many years.
The South Arkansas Arts Center, or known locally as SAAC, is an autonomous community-supported nonprofit organization.
The mission of the South Arkansas Arts Center in serving the citizens of the bi-state region is to promote, bridge, facilitate and support the ideas and forms of creative appreciation, education, ability, confidence and cooperation for all age, cultural, civil and ethnic groups.
Rialto Theater hosts live music affairs in El Dorado.
El Dorado honors rockabilly music with this downtown exhibit near the courthouse.
The historic 1,830 seat El Dorado Municipal Auditorium is a multi-purpose auditorium facility with large lobby, grand hall seating, and multi-tiered sloping balcony.
For more than 50 years, Municipal Auditorium has been the mainstay of many musical acts, entertainment shows, school productions, dance recitals and is home to the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
Founded in 1956 as one of the first orchestras in Arkansas, a group of small-town music lovers formed the El Dorado Symphony and Choral Society.
Interest interval in the orchestra and its mission period to fulfill a county-wide part serving as the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
All played an integral part in providing South Arkansas access to high character creative music through extensive touring, recording, and improve education concerts.
The South Arkansas Symphony performs six to ten concerts per year.
This experienced orchestra also performs a several special affairs, such as educational performances and the improve concert that honors Martin Luther King. The South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra is the biggest performing arts organization in South Arkansas. El Dorado is the site for a several annual affairs.
Beginning on the first Saturday in May, the Mayhaw Festival is hosted by the South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society. The official event name is Bugs Bands & Bikes. It coincides with a crawfish boil, a "Battle of the Bands", a bike show/one day motorcycle rally, a motorcycle parade, pool tournament, and other activities.
During the first weekend of October, El Dorado jubilates the two-day Music - Fest, a Music Festival which takes up eight town/city blocks, features over 30 acts on five stages and was titled Arkansas Festival & Event Association 'Festival Of The Year' in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Past headliners have encompassed Toby Keith, the Charlie Daniels Band, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Tracy Lawrence, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Anderson, Eddie Money, Blues Traveler, Jack Ingram, Joe Nichols, Patrice Pike and Trout Fishing in America. El Dorado also hosts winter holiday affairs, including the Festival of Lights and the "largest Christmas parade in Arkansas".
El Dorado Conference Center New El Dorado Conference Center The building homes student services for South Arkansas Community College.
As the county seat, El Dorado quickly outgrew even its second courthouse (built on this site in 1848) in the 1920s due to the petroleum boom's voluminous deed and title transactions.
Headquarters positioned in downtown El Dorado El Dorado is home to one enhance airways broadcast and seven commercial airways broadcasts which are directed by two ownership groups, Noalmark Broadcasting Corporation, and El Dorado Broadcasting.
El Dorado Broadcasting owns: El Dorado is also the home of KAKV, 88.9 FM, an owned and directed partner of the K-LOVE radio network.
El Dorado broadcast outlets consist of three full-power tv stations; two commercial, and one public.
All three transmitters are positioned east of El Dorado, in Huttig, Arkansas.
While KTVE no longer considers El Dorado their major newsroom, the station is licensed to El Dorado by the FCC.
Additionally, over the air tv programming is also available from KETZ-DT, the AETN/PBS partner for El Dorado.
El Dorado is also served by stations broadcast from close-by Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana: El Dorado is also served by the El Dorado News-Times, one of the earliest newspapers in South Arkansas.
El Dorado News Times is a daily journal covering small-town news, sports, business, jobs, and improve affairs.
El Dorado News-Times is owned by the Walter E.
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