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Rogers is positioned in the northwest portion of the state in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Area, which is one of the quickest burgeoning areas in the country and is ranked 109th in terms of populace in the United States with 465,776 in 2010 as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau.
Frisco caboose at Centennial Park, Rogers Historical District downtown.
Rogers was titled after Captain Charles Warrington Rogers, who was vice-president and general manager of the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railway, also known as the Frisco. The town was established in 1881, the year the Frisco line arrived; it was at this time the region residents honored Captain Rogers by naming it for him.
Rogers was the locale of the first Wal-Mart store, whose corporate command posts is positioned in neighboring Bentonville, Arkansas.
In June 2007, Business - Week periodical ranked Rogers as 18th in its list of the 25 best affordable suburbs in the American South. And in 2010, CNN Money ranked Rogers # 10 on their list of 100 Best Places to Live.
The first retail company owned by the Stroud family was a store in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, which was co-owned by Allen Bryant Stroud (1831 1914) and his son Harlan Lafayette (H.L.) Stroud (1858 1950). That company was established before to 1879 and Allen Stroud also served as postmaster at Pea Ridge for a time. In 1884, H.L.
Stroud sold his interest in the Stroud store in Pea Ridge and purchased a dry goods store at the corner of First and Walnut Streets in Rogers which he titled Stroud's Mercantile.
Built the brick building at 114 116 West Walnut Street. Stroud's continued to be the dominant retail company in Rogers up into the 1960s, when in 1962 Sam Walton opened the first locale of what would turn into the retail enormous Walmart just seven blocks away. Walton's new store combined with the nationwide boss of retail centers from aged downtowns to malls and shopping centers slowly eroded Stroud's customer base, dominant the locally beloved retailer to permanently close in 1993 after 109 years in business.
In 1912 the town/city council formed a commission of small-town businessmen to facilitate the paving of downtown Rogers.
Rogers is positioned at 36 19 46 N 94 8 29 W (36.329388, 94.141372). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 33.6 square miles (87 km2), of which 33.5 square miles (87 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.15%) is water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Rogers has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Mercy Hospital at Rogers in Northwest Arkansas As of 2010 Rogers had a populace of 55,964.
Daisy Airgun Museum in downtown Rogers In addition to the Rogers Commercial Historic District, Rogers has various properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the earliest being the Pea Ridge National Military Park.
Since 2007, Rogers has hosted the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, a women's experienced golf tournament on the LPGA Tour.
Dock Wheeler Park in Rogers homes the biggest softball program in the state of Arkansas, while Foerester Park is home to the biggest soccer program in the state. Rogers has five large sports parks, 14 neighborhood parks along with a swimming pool, a skateboard and splash park, 26 athletic fields, an activeness center, a YMC, and two lakes, along with five golf courses and a trail fitness totaling over 23 miles (37 km).
Other recreational attractions in the encircling area includes Beaver Lake, Hobbs State Park Conservation Area and War Eagle Mill & Cavern to the east of Rogers, as well as historical Civil War battlefield, Pea Ridge National Military Park, about 10 miles outside of Rogers.
The mayor of Rogers since 2011 is Greg Hines. The previous mayor, Steve Womack, won election to the United States House of Representatives in 2010 for the seat vacated by John Boozman, now a U.S.
Rogers is home to a several enhance and private school districts and schools including: Rogers School District - In 2012, 2013, & 2014, both Rogers and Rogers Heritage high schools were recognized with Silver awards from U.S.
News & World Report Top 1,000 High Schools in America and were ranked among the top schools in the state. Additionally, for many years, Rogers High School has been ranked by Newsweek periodical among the top 1,300 schools in the country. Rogers High School (Home of the Mountaineers) was the first of the Rogers School District's three high schools, which also includes Rogers Heritage High School and Rogers New Technology High School. RHS and HHS, each with about 2,000 students, are in the state's biggest classification (7 - A).
Rogers Heritage High School (Home of the War Eagles) is Rogers' second high school that opened in August 2008. The two traditional Rogers high schools offer the same courses and athletic opportunities.
Rogers New Technology High School opened in 2013 and is part of the New Tech Network. Like more than 120 New Tech schools around the country, the Rogers school features an instructional approach centered on project-based learning and integrated technology in the classroom.
Arkansas Arts Academy High School is a enhance charter school supported by the Arkansas Arts Academy district.
Other close-by schools and campuses include the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), Northwest Arkansas Community College (Bentonville), and John Brown University (a Christian school in Siloam Springs).
See also: List of newspapers in Arkansas, List of airways broadcasts in Arkansas, and List of tv stations in Arkansas Rogers is served by the tv market based out of Fort Smith and Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The daily paper in Rogers is the Rogers Morning News, with a special "A section" dedicated to news just for Rogers and encircling cities.
The rest of the journal is the Northwest Arkansas version of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (the "B section" is the regular Democrat-Gazette "A section," complete with front page and masthead).
All commercial aviation, however, goes through the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA), positioned about 15 miles west of Rogers in Highfill, Arkansas.
1944), Arkansas state senator from Rogers; former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives Fay Boozman (1946 2005), a former GOP state senator and after that the director of the Arkansas Department of Health amid the administration of Governor Mike Huckabee, was also a resident of Rogers.
1936), the first Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate in the 20th century; the minister at the Southside Church of Christ in Rogers amid the 1970s.
Jana Della Rosa (born 1976), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton and Washington counties since 2015; homemaker in Rogers 1991), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton County since 2015 1962), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton and Washington counties since 2015; former resident of Rogers 1978), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Fort Smith; born in Rogers and graduated from Rogers High School 1941), Country singer born in Rogers 1954), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Rogers since 2013 Steve Womack, was mayor of Rogers before becoming U.S.
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