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Jonesboro (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County . In 2023, the city had an estimated population of 80,560, [ 4 ] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas .
Contents. Craighead County, Arkansas. Arkansas. (2020) Craighead County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 111,231. [ 1 ] The county has two county seats — Jonesboro and Lake City. [ 2 ] Craighead County is Arkansas's 58th county, formed on February 19, 1859, and named for state ...
The Jonesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – Craighead and Poinsett – in northeast Arkansas, anchored by the city of Jonesboro. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 121,026 (a July 1, 2012 estimate has placed the population at 124,042). [1]
A-State was founded as the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro in 1909 by the Arkansas Legislature as a regional agricultural training school.Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature from Sheridan (1905–1912), introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges, including ...
e. Crowley's Ridge (also Crowleys Ridge) is a geological formation that rises 250 to 550 feet (170 m) above the alluvial plain of the Mississippi embayment in a 150-mile (240 km) line from southeastern Missouri to the Mississippi River near Helena, Arkansas. It is the most prominent feature in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain between Cape ...
Arkansas and Pulaski: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd President of the United States: 63,661: 913.70 sq mi (2,366 km 2) Johnson County: 071: Clarksville: November 16, 1833: Pope County, and a small portion from Madison County (prior 1890) Benjamin Johnson (1784–1849), the first judge of the federal district court for Arkansas 26,129: 682 ...
Highway 141 (AR 141 and Hwy. 141) is designation for two north–south state highways in Northeast Arkansas. The longer segment was created in 1931 and extended throughout the mid-20th century to the current alignment connecting Jonesboro and points north. The Jonesboro segment was a former city street added to the state highway system in 1973.
GNIS feature ID. 2403895 [ 2 ] Website. bonoar.com. Bono is a city in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,131 at the 2010 census, [ 3 ] up from 1,512 in 2000. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bono's most prominent landmarks are the Bono Bridge and the Bono Cemetery.