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


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

Arp has a population of 1402. 45.1% of Arp’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.9 are female. 51.4% of Arp is married and 66.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $81,206, and the average rent is $871. Household median income in Arp is $52,159, and the individual median income is $28,159. Arp’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.4%), Black(11.6%), Multiple(11.6%), Hispanic(9.1%), Native(1.4%).


The area where the town of Arp now sits was occupied by Caddoan peoples in pre-Columbian periods and was a part of the Treaty of Bowles Village in 1836 that granted Smith and Cherokee counties along with parts of Rusk, Gregg and Van Zandt counties to the Texas Cherokee and twelve associated tribes. The Cherokee War of 1839 forced the Native Americans out.


However, the area was again occupied by Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek Indians after 1845. The descendants of these people formed the Mount Tabor Indian Community and a number continue to reside in Smith and Rusk counties today. The settlement that would become Arp was called Bissa, from the Choctaw/Chickasaw word for blackberry, as early as the 1800s.


It was later called Jarvis Junction and then Strawberry, after the fruit that was grown in the area. It was finally renamed "Arp" for Bill Arp (pen name of Charles Henry Smith), a Georgia humorist who was nationally known in the late 19th century. Supposedly, the three-letter name was also chosen for its brevity, which allowed local strawberry producers to spend less time hand-marking their crates.


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