Morrilton, Arkansas Morrilton, Arkansas Location in Conway County and the state of Arkansas Location in Conway County and the state of Arkansas State Arkansas Morrilton is a town/city in Conway County, Arkansas, United States, less than 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Little Rock.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of Conway County. The populace was 6,767 at the 2010 census. The town/city was home to Harding College, now Harding University of Searcy, Arkansas, for about a decade in the 1920s and 1930s.
Morrilton is positioned in southern Conway County at 35 9 23 N 92 44 31 W (35.156373, -92.741944). It is bordered on the south by the Arkansas River.
Interstate 40 passes through the northern side of the city, dominant southeast 48 miles (77 km) to Little Rock and west 107 miles (172 km) to Fort Smith.
Route 64 (East and West Broadway Street) is the chief road through the town/city center, dominant east 6 miles (10 km) to Plumerville and northwest 13 miles (21 km) to Atkins.
Arkansas Highway 9 forms an easterly bypass of Morrilton and leads north 40 miles (64 km) to Clinton and south athwart the Arkansas River 13 miles (21 km) to Perryville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Morrilton has a total region of 9.2 square miles (23.7 km2), of which 8.7 square miles (22.6 km2) is territory and 0.39 square miles (1.0 km2), or 4.29%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $28,007, and the median income for a family was $36,432.
Morrilton High School and the South Conway County School District serve Morrilton as its enhance school system, where Sacred Heart Catholic School is private.
Morrilton is home to the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton.
Rick Beck (born 1956), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Conway and Perry counties since 2015, electrical engineer born in Little Rock and a former resident of Morrilton.
He is an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton. Close (1907-1980), Louisiana state representative, a Democrat, who also served as mayor of Alexandria from 1947 to 1953, was born at Robertsville near Morrilton, the son of the nation physician, Edgar Close. Nathan Green Gordon (1916 2008), sixth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and distinguished United States Navy aviator amid World War II; born in Morrilton Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973), governor of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971; lived at Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton Sue Scott (born 1954), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Rogers; attended the former Petit Jean Vocational Technical School in Morrilton Ryan Joyner (born 1995), future University of Central Arkansas Graduate, former Vice President of Operations for the Student Government Association of the University of Central Arkansas, Team Leader for the Student Orientation Staff of the University of Central Arkansas, Housing and Food Services Committee Chair for the University of Central Arkansas According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Morrilton has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "City of Morrilton Arkansas".
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