Jacksonville, Arkansas Jacksonville, Arkansas Official seal of Jacksonville, Arkansas Location of Jacksonville in Arkansas Location of Jacksonville in Arkansas Jacksonville, Arkansas is positioned in the US Jacksonville, Arkansas - Jacksonville, Arkansas Jacksonville is a town/city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, and a suburb of Little Rock.

As of the 2010 census, the populace of the town/city was 28,364. It is part of the Little Rock North Little Rock Conway Metropolitan Travel Destination with 729,135 citizens as of 2014.

In 1941, assembly began on the Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP), which served as the major facility for the evolution of fuses and detonators for World War II. Following the war, AOP ceased operations and the territory was sold for commercial interests, including the evolution of the Little Rock Air Force Base in 1955.

Today, portions of AOP still remain, including the Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Jacksonville Museum of Military History.

Even with Pulaski County being an Arkansas county that is not a "dry" county, as it allows the revenue of beer and liquor, the municipal limits of Jacksonville are "moist", as it does not allow the revenue of alcohol in stores, but allows the sale of alcohol in some restaurants with special permits.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 28.2 square miles (73.1 km2), of which 28.1 square miles (72.8 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km2), or 0.42%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.0% under the age of 18, 12.8% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 17.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.3% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,460, and the median income for a family was $40,381.

According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Jacksonville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Since 1927, Jacksonville had been part of the Pulaski County Special School District, one of the biggest school districts in Arkansas.

In the years dominant up to September, 2008, parts of the Jacksonville improve expressed a desire to split from the PCSSD.

This measure was allowed by the board of the PCSSD amid that month, clearing the way, legally, for the formation of what would turn into Jacksonville North Pulaski School District.

In a response to a petition signed by more than 2,000 voters, the Arkansas Board of Education ordered an election to carve a new school precinct out of the existing Pulaski County Special School District. Jacksonville voters allowed of the separation on September 16, 2014 with a vote of 3,672 for and 202 against (95% to 5%). According to JNPSD officials, the precinct would be administered by the Pulaski County Special School District until its final detachment, which became effective July 1, 2016. The precinct consists of seven elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The schools include Jacksonville High School, Jacksonville Middle School, Bayou Meto Elementary School, Arnold Drive Elementary School, Tolleson Elementary School, Dupree Elementary School, Pinewood Elementary School and Taylor Elementary School.

In addition, Arkansas State University-Beebe maintains a degree center at Little Rock Air Force Base for post-secondary education.

The Central Arkansas Library System includes the Esther Dewitt Nixon Library in Jacksonville.

Homer Martin Adkins, governor of Arkansas from 1941 to 1945, was born in Jacksonville in 1890.

Bob Johnson, Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Jacksonville since 2015; former Pulaski County justice of the peace Jennifer Marie Seaton-Rambo, formerly, Jennifer Rambo, a Jacksonville native, and her wife Kristin Jean Seaton-Rambo made Arkansas history when they courageously became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in the State of Arkansas, as well as what is known-as, The Bible Belt, on May 10, 2014.

"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Jacksonville city, Arkansas".

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Climate Summary for Jacksonville, Arkansas "Unofficial Results Show Favor for Starting Jacksonville School District".

Jacksonville North Pulaski School District.

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