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We would like to provide the residents of  Texarkana  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Texarkana Home page. The Texarkana Home page provides as much information as possible on Texarkana. Knowing Texarkana’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Texarkana’s Home page, you will also find Texarkana’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Texarkana has a population of 29864. 47.7% of Texarkana’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 40.3% of Texarkana is married and 56.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $122,469, and the average rent is $747. Household median income in Texarkana is $41,873, and the individual median income is $23,620. Texarkana’s Ethnic is the following: White(58.6%), Black(35.1%), Hispanic(4.6%), Multiple(2.2%), Other(2.2%), Native(1.7%), Asian(0.1%), Pacific(0.1%).


Texarkana is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County, on the southwest border of the state. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 29,387. The city is located across the state line from its twin city of Texarkana, Texas. The city was founded at a railroad intersection on December 8, 1873, and was incorporated in Arkansas on August 10, 1880.


Texarkana and its Texas counterpart are the principal cities of the Texarkana metropolitan area, which in 2021 was ranked 289th in the United States with a population of 147,174, according to the United States Census Bureau. Within the Ark-La-Tex subregion of southwest Arkansas, Texarkana is located in the Piney Woods, an oak–hickory forest that dominates the flat Gulf Coastal Plain.


Texarkana's economy is based on agriculture. The city has long been a trading center, first located at the intersection of major railroads serving Texas, Arkansas and north into Missouri. Since then three major Interstate highways constructed crossroads here: Interstate 30 (I-30), I-49, and the future I-69.


Outdoor tourism, such as fishing at Lake Millwood and related activities, is important economically in the region. The Red River Army Depot & Tenants comprise the largest single employer in the city. The Texarkana Arkansas School District is the largest public school district on the Arkansas side. The city has a branch campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope (UACCH).


On the Texas side is located Texarkana College.


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