Western Arkansas

Western Arkansas is a region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It can be roughly defined by Crawford County in the northwest, Van Buren County in the northeast, Dallas County in the southeast, and Sevier County in the southwest. Some notable towns there include Fort Smith, Van Buren, Clarksville, Russellville, Morrilton, Hot Springs, Malvern, Arkadelphia, De Queen, and Mena. Much of the mountainous ecosystem in Western Arkansas is protected by the Ouachita National Forest. Local river tourism offers rafting, canoeing, and fishing while lakes formed by dammed rivers include Lake Ouachita, Lake Hamilton, Lake Catherine, DeGray Lake, Lake Greeson, and Dierks Lake. Western Arkansas was the childhood home of former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Counties of Western Arkansas:

Clark County

Conway County

Crawford County

Dallas County

Franklin County

Garland County

Hot Spring County

Howard County

Johnson County

Logan County

Montgomery County

Perry County

Pike County

Polk County

Pope County

Saline County

Scott County

Sebastian County

Sevier County

Van Buren County

Yell County

State of Arkansas
Little Rock (capital)
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Famous quotes containing the words western and/or arkansas:

    “It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “...I am who I am because I’m a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it—only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.”
    —Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)