Arkansas Timberlands

The Arkansas Timberlands, sometimes also called Southern Arkansas or Southwestern Arkansas, is a region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It can be roughly defined by Sevier County in the northwest, a portion of Jefferson County in the northeast, Ashley County in the southeast, and Miller County in the southwest. Some notable towns there include Star City, Monticello, Crossett, El Dorado, Bearden, Camden, Magnolia, Hope, and Texarkana. Dense pine and cypress forests covered the hilly terrain and lined the numerous rivers of the Timberlands until modern settlement created a significant logging industry and subsequent clearance agriculture which provided the basis of the local economy until the discovery of petroleum. Local tourism is largely based on the popularity of deer hunting and bass fishing. Attractions there include Marks' Mills Battleground Historical Monument, Jenkins' Ferry Battleground Historical Monument, Overflow National Wildlife Refuge, Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, South Arkansas Arboretum, Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources, White Oak Lake State Park, Poison Spring State Park, Millwood State Park, and Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge. The Arkansas Timberlands was the birthplace of former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Counties of the Arkansas Timberlands:

Ashley County

Bradley County

Calhoun County

Cleveland County

Columbia County

Dallas County

Drew County

Grant County

Hempstead County

Howard County

Jefferson County

Lafayette County

Lincoln County

Little River County

Miller County

Nevada County

Ouachita County

Pike County

Sevier County

Union County

State of Arkansas

Little Rock (capital)

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Regions	Arkansas River Valley Ark‑La‑Tex Bayou Bartholomew Central Arkansas Crowley's Ridge Four State Area Delta Mississippi Alluvial Plain New Madrid Seismic Zone Northwest Arkansas Osage Plains Ouachita Mountains Ozarks Piney Woods South Arkansas Timberlands Western Arkansas

Metros	Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Fayetteville‑Springdale‑Rogers Fort Smith Texarkana Jonesboro Pine Bluff Hot Springs

Largest cities	Little Rock Fort Smith Fayetteville Springdale Jonesboro North Little Rock Conway Rogers Pine Bluff Bentonville Hot Springs Benton Texarkana Sherwood Jacksonville Russellville Bella Vista West Memphis Paragould Cabot

Counties	Arkansas Ashley Baxter Benton Boone Bradley Calhoun Carroll Chicot Clark Clay Cleburne Cleveland Columbia Conway Craighead Crawford Crittenden Cross Dallas Desha Drew Faulkner Franklin Fulton Garland Grant Greene Hempstead Hot Spring Howard Independence Izard Jackson Jefferson Johnson Lafayette Lawrence Lee Lincoln Little River Logan Lonoke Madison Marion Miller Mississippi Monroe Montgomery Nevada Newton Ouachita Perry Phillips Pike Poinsett Polk Pope Prairie Pulaski Randolph Saline Scott Searcy Sebastian Sevier Sharp St. Francis Stone Union Van Buren Washington White Woodruff Yell

Famous quotes containing the word arkansas:

“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)