Forrest City, Arkansas Forrest City, Arkansas Motto: One Forrest City, moving forward, one step at a time Francis County and the state of Arkansas Francis County and the state of Arkansas Forrest City is a town/city in St.
Francis County, Arkansas, United States, and the county seat. It was titled for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who used the locale as a campsite for a assembly crew completing a barns between Memphis and Little Rock, shortly after the Civil War.
Francis County, positioned in the east central part of Arkansas, was officially organized by the Arkansas Territorial Legislature in Little Rock.
Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest became interested in the region around Crowley's Ridge amid the Civil War.
Most inhabitants were calling the region "Forrest's Town," later to be known as Forrest City, incorporated May 11, 1870.
The governmental center of county was moved to a wooden structure in Forrest City in 1874, which burned shortly after that, again destroying county records.
In 1940, Forrest City was a stop for the Choctaw Rocket, a passenger train directed by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
Forrest City High School held its first integrated prom in 1988.
After school integration was ordered in the mid-1960s, Forrest City eliminated school-sponsored dances and civil activities.
Forrest City is positioned at 35 0 36 N 90 47 19 W (35.010131, -90.788716). Technically Forrest City is in northeast Arkansas using standard navigational methods..
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.3 square miles (42 km2), of which 16.2 square miles (42 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.37%) is water.
Forrest City is positioned on Crowley's Ridge, a geological phenomenon that rises above the flat Mississippi Delta terrain that surrounds it.
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,774 citizens , 4,581 homeholds, and 3,165 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $23,111, and the median income for a family was $27,432.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex, Forrest City is in Forrest City. The United States Postal Service operates the Forrest City Post Office. Woodruff Electric Cooperative, a non-profit non-urban electric utility cooperative, is headquartered in Forrest City.
The Forrest City Chamber of Commerce is positioned in the 100-year-old Becker House.
Forrest City had five sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places including: Forrest City High School (aka, "Old Central") Izard, 3rd Governor of the Nebraska Territory; moved to Forrest City.
Don Kessinger, born in Forrest City, experienced baseball player and manager. Albert King, blues artist who spent much of childhood and early experienced career in Forrest City.
Henry Loeb, mayor of Memphis, Tennessee; moved to Forrest City.
Cal Slayton, comic book artist; interval up in Forrest City.
Dwight Tosh, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Jonesboro; former Forrest City resident Air Force Major General and Chief of the National Guard Bureau; moved to Forrest City.
Marshall Wright, Forrest City lawyer and Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Monroe County and portions of St.
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