Texarkana, Arkansas Texarkana, Texas Texarkana federal building, including the postal service and courthouse, straddling the Texas-Arkansas state line Texarkana federal building, including the postal service and courthouse, straddling the Texas-Arkansas state line Official seal of Texarkana, Texas Texarkana, Texas is positioned in the US Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Texas Municipal Auditorium is positioned in the City Hall complex in Texarkana, Arkansas.

The Texarkana Fire Department adjoins the Municipal Auditorium.

Highland Church of Christ at 1705 Highland Street in Texarkana, Arkansas Texarkana is the biggest city and the governmental center of county of Miller County, Arkansas, United States. Texarkana is a Twin town/city with Texarkana, Texas, along State Line Avenue.

According to the 2010 census, the populace of the town/city was 29,919, ranking it as the state's 12th biggest city, behind Hot Springs.

The city, along with its Texas counterpart, forms the central town/city of the Metropolitan Statistical Area, encompassing all of Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas.

The combined populace of the two Texarkana metros/cities was 66,330 at the 2010 census.

Texarkana, Arkansas, is positioned at 33 25 59 N 94 1 14 W (33.433075, -94.020514). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 41.9 square miles (108.4 km2).

According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Texarkana has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The Arkansas Department of Correction operates the Texarkana Regional Correction Center in Texarkana. Arkansas inhabitants whose permanent residence is inside the town/city limits of Texarkana, Arkansas are exempt from Arkansas individual income taxes. The Federal Courthouse (which also holds the city's only postal service) is positioned directly on the Arkansas-Texas state line and is the only federal office building to straddle a state line.

Texarkana Independent School District 795, Texarkana Arkansas School District 785, Arkansas 196.svg Arkansas Highway 196 Arkansas 151.svg Arkansas Highway 151 Arkansas 296.svg Arkansas Highway 296 Arkansas 237.svg Arkansas Highway 237 Texarkana Arkansas School District, which leads to graduating from Arkansas High School.

In 2012, Texarkana became home to a branch of the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (UAHT), a improve college based in Hope, Arkansas, and in 2015 UAHT began partnering with the University of Arkansas Little Rock, to offer bachelor's-degree programs through UALR Texarkana, based on the UAHT Texarkana campus.

Texarkana is referenced in the song "Cotton Fields" by the American folk and blues musician Lead Belly and later recorded by a several notable nation modern artists, including The Highwaymen, Buck Owens, The Beach Boys and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter), was born on a cotton plantation near Linden, Texas, about 40 miles southwest of Texarkana, and later worked on a plantation near De Kalb, Texas, about 35 miles west of Texarkana.

Brenda Lee's 1959 song "Let's Jump the Broomstick" references the town/city with the lyric "Goin' to Alabama back from Texarkana, Goin' all around the world".

Texarkana is one of the places visited by the red car in The Brave Little Toaster amid the song "Worthless" As the lead singer of the band is actually from Texarkana, this lyric is prominently autobiographical.

"Texarkana" is a 1991 song by R.E.M..

Other prominent music that name-check the town/city include "I've Been Everywhere" by Hank Snow, later veiled by Johnny Cash; "Texas Swing" by Clay Walker from his 2001 album Say No More; "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Crazy Elephant; "24 Hours at a Time" by the Marshall Tucker Band; "Texarkana Baby" by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, veiled by Tennessee Ernie Ford; and two music by Joe Ely, "Fingernails" and "I'm Gonna Strangle You Shorty." Jerry Reed's 1977 hit song "East Bound and Down" from the soundtrack refers to the town/city in the lyric "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarkana," regarding the lack of availability of Coors beer east of Texas at that time.

(In fact, Texarkana, Texas, is dry and the alcohol distributor is actually in Texarkana, Arkansas.) In Season 5, Episode 5 "Southbound and Down" of the FX TV show Archer, Archer and the crew from ISIS encounter a hostile biker gang in Texarkana while on their way to Austin, Texas.

In a 2013 episode of American Pickers on The History Channel, Frank and Mike visited a several spots in Texarkana.

In the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, centuries after a nuclear war that reduces world civilization to a second dark age, Texarkana rises as the capital of a burgeoning empire that expands athwart the former United States and becomes known as the Atlantic Confederacy.

Bogard, founder in 1924 of the American Baptist Association; while living in Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1914 he established The Baptist Commoner denominational newspaper, later in 1917 combined as The Baptist and Commoner Wayne Dowd, Arkansas State Senator and lawyer Prissy Hickerson, former member of Arkansas Highway Commission for which Loop 245 is titled "Hickerson Highway"; current member of Arkansas House of Representatives from Miller County Jimmy Hickey Jr., Arkansas state senator from District 11 in Miller, Lafayette, Little River, Hempstead, and Sevier counties; Texarkana businessman Lynn Lowe, farmer and former Arkansas Republican Party state chairman and 1978 gubernatorial nominee against Bill Clinto"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Texarkana city, Arkansas".

"Texarkana, Arkansas Koppen Climate Classification".

"Arkansas Department of Corrections".

"State of Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration Texarkana Exemption Letter" (PDF).

"History of Texarkana: Did You Know?".

Texarkana Arkansas School District.

"Biography of the Honorable Jimmy Hickey, Jr., Arkansas State Senator" (PDF).

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