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Little Rock, Arkansas

Final updated May 04, 2022

Majuscule city of Arkansas, United States

Land upper-case letter city in Arkansas, United States

Little Rock, Arkansas
State capital city
City of Little Rock
Clockwise from top: Fiddling Rock skyline, Arkansas Razorbacks football in War Memorial Stadium, the Arkansas State Capitol, River Market place District, Petty Stone Central High School, and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library
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Nickname(due south): The Stone, Stone Town, LR
Location inside Pulaski County
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Coordinates: 34°44′10″Due north 92°19′52″Due west  /  34.73611°Northward 92.33111°West  / 34.73611; -92.33111 Coordinates: 34°44′ten″N 92°xix′52″W  /  34.73611°N 92.33111°W  / 34.73611; -92.33111
Country	U.s.
State	Arkansas
County	Pulaski
Township	Large Rock
Founded	June one, 1821
Incorporated (town)	November 7, 1831
Incorporated (city)	November 2, 1835
Named for	French: La Petite Roche (The "Footling Rock")
Government
•Blazon	Council-manager
• Mayor	Frank Scott Jr. (D)
• Quango	Little Stone Board of Directors
Area [1]
• Land majuscule city	123.00sqmi (318.58km2)
•Land	120.05sqmi (310.92km2)
•Water	2.96sqmi (7.66km2)
•Metro	four,090.34sqmi (10,593.94kmii)
Elevation	335ft (102m)
Population (2020)
• Country capital letter city	202,591
•Rank	US: 126th
•Density	1,687.60/sqmi (651.58/kmtwo)
• Urban	431,388 (US: 89th)
• Metro	738,344 (US: 80th)
Demonym(s)	Little Rocker
Time zone	UTC−06:00 (CST)
•Summer (DST)	UTC−05:00 (CDT)
Zilch lawmaking(s)	72201-72207, 72209-72212, 72214-72217, 72219, 72221-72223, 72225, 72227, 72231, 72255, 72260, 72295
Area code(s)	501
FIPS code	05-41000
GNIS characteristic ID	83350
Major airport	Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (LIT)
Interstate Highways	I-thirty, I-40, I-430, I-440, I-530, I-630
Other major highways	US65, U.s.a.67, Uslxx, Us167, AR107
Website	www.littlerock.gov

Lilliputian Rock is the capital letter and most populous urban center of the U.South. country of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 in 2020 co-ordinate to the The states Census Bureau. As the county seat of Pulaski Canton, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the southward bank of the Arkansas River close to the state'southward geographic center. The metropolis derived its name from a rock germination along the river, named the "Piffling Rock" (French: La Petite Roche) past the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Picayune Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821. The 6-county Trivial Rock–Due north Little Rock–Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Expanse (MSA) is ranked 78th in terms of population in the U.s. with 738,344 residents co-ordinate to the 2017 estimate by the United States Demography Agency. ^{[ii] [3]}

• Etymology
• History
• Geography
• Neighborhoods
• Metropolitan surface area
• Climate
• Demographics
• 2020 census
• 2005-2007 ACS
• 2010 census
• Crime
• Economy
• Arts and culture
• Museums
• Theatre
• Regime
• Pedagogy
• Colleges and universities
• Secondary schools
• Public libraries
• Notable places
• Sports
• Media
• Print
• Television receiver
• Infrastructure
• Healthcare
• Transportation
• Notable people
• Sis cities
• See also
• Notes
• References
• Further reading
• External links

Fiddling Rock is a cultural, economical, government, and transportation eye within Arkansas and the South. Several cultural institutions are in Little Rock, such as the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the Mosaic Templars Cultural Middle, in add-on to hiking, boating, and other outdoor recreational opportunities. Fiddling Stone'due south history is bachelor through history museums, celebrated districts or neighborhoods of Fiddling Stone like the Quapaw Quarter, and celebrated sites such as Piffling Rock Central High Schoolhouse. The metropolis is the headquarters of Dillard'due south, Windstream Communications, Acxiom, Stephens Inc., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Heifer International, Winrock International, the Clinton Foundation, and the Rose Law Firm. Other corporations, such as Amazon, Dassault Falcon Jet, LM Air current Power, Simmons Bank, Euronet Worldwide, AT&T, and Entergy take large operations in the urban center. State government is a large employer, with many offices downtown. Ii major Interstate highways, Interstate thirty and Interstate twoscore, meet in Little Rock, with the Port of Little Rock serving as a shipping hub.

Etymology

Little Rock derives its proper name from a pocket-sized rock formation on the due south banking company of the Arkansas River called the "Picayune Stone" (French: La Petite Roche). The Fiddling Rock was used past early river traffic as a landmark and became a well-known river crossing. The Petty Rock is across the river from The Big Rock, a large bluff at the edge of the river, which was once used every bit a rock quarry. ^[4]

History

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Archeological artifacts provide evidence of Native Americans inhabiting Primal Arkansas for thousands of years earlier Europeans arrived. The early on inhabitants may have been the Folsom people, Bluff Dwellers, and Mississippian culture peoples who built earthwork mounds recorded in 1541 by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Historical tribes of the expanse were the Caddo, Quapaw, Osage, Choctaw, and Cherokee.

Footling Rock was named for a rock outcropping on the bank of the Arkansas River used past early travelers every bit a landmark. ^[5] It was named in 1722 by French explorer and trader Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, marked the transition from the apartment Mississippi Delta region to the Ouachita Mountain foothills. Travelers referred to the area as the "Little Rock". Though there was an attempt to officially name the city "Arkopolis" upon its founding in the 1820s, and that name did appear on a few maps made by the US Geological Survey, the name Petty Rock is eventually what stuck. ^{[6] [seven] [8]}

The skyline of Little Rock, viewed from the due north bank of the Arkansas River

Geography

Little Rock is located at 34°44′x″N 92°19′52″West  /  34.73611°North 92.33111°W  / 34.73611; -92.33111 (34.736009, −92.331122). ^[9]

Satellite photograph of Little Rock in 2020

According to the United States Census Bureau, the urban center has a total surface area of 116.8 foursquare miles (303 km ^two ), of which 116.2 square miles (301 km ² ) is land and 0.6 square miles (i.six km ^two ) (0.52%) is water.

Little Rock is on the south depository financial institution of the Arkansas River in Central Arkansas. Fourche Creek and Rock Creek run through the city, and menstruum into the river. The western part of the city is in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Northwest of the urban center limits are Pinnacle Mount and Lake Maumelle, which provides Fiddling Rock's drinking water.

The city of North Piddling Rock is simply across the river from Little Stone, but it is a divide city. Due north Little Rock was in one case the 8th ward of Little Rock. An Arkansas Supreme Courtroom determination on Feb half dozen, 1904, allowed the ward to merge with the neighboring town of Due north Picayune Rock. The merged town quickly renamed itself Argenta (the local name for the former 8th Ward), but returned to its original name in October 1917. ^[x]

Neighborhoods

Hillary Rodham and Neb Clinton lived in this 980 square pes (91 m ) house in the Hillcrest neighborhood of Piffling Rock from 1977 to 1979 while he was Arkansas Attorney Full general.

• Applegate
• Birchwood
• Breckenridge
• Briarwood
• Broadmoor
• Bryce's Creek
• Capitol-Main Historic Commune
• Capitol View/Stifft'due south Station
• Central High School Historic District
• Chenal Valley
• Cloverdale
• Colony West
• Downtown
• Echo Valley
• E End
• Fair Park
• Geyer Springs
• Governor'south Mansion
• Granite Mount
• Gum Springs
• Hanger Loma
• Hall High
• The Heights
• Highland Park
• Hillcrest
• John Barrow
• Leawood
• Mabelvale
• MacArthur Park
• Marshall Foursquare
• Otter Creek
• Pankey
• Paul Laurence Dunbar School
• Pinnacle Valley
• Pleasant Valley
• Pulaski Heights
• Quapaw Quarter
• Riverdale
• Robinwood
• Rosedale
• Scott Street
• St. Charles
• Due south End
• South Main Street (apartments)
• Southward Main Street (residential)
• South Little Rock
• Southwest Trivial Rock
• Stagecoach
• Sturbridge
• University Park
• Walton Heights
• Wakefield
• Westward End
• Woodlands Edge

Metropolitan area

The 2017 U.S. Census population estimate for the Lilliputian Rock-North Lilliputian Rock-Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area was 738,344. The MSA covers the post-obit counties: Pulaski, Faulkner, Grant, Lonoke, Perry, and Saline. The largest cities are Petty Rock, Northward Little Stone, Conway, Jacksonville, Benton, Sherwood, Cabot, Maumelle, and Bryant.

Climate

Little Stone lies in the boiling subtropical climate zone (Cfa), with hot, humid summers and cool winters with usually fiddling snow. It has experienced temperatures every bit depression equally −12 °F (−24 °C), which was recorded on February 12, 1899, and equally high as 114 °F (46 °C), which was recorded on August 3, 2011. ^[12]

Climate data for Piddling Stone (Picayune Rock Nat'l Airport), 1991−2020 normals, [lower-blastoff 1] extremes 1875−nowadays [lower-alpha 2]
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Yr
Record high °F (°C)	83 (28)	87 (31)	91 (33)	95 (35)	98 (37)	107 (42)	112 (44)	114 (46)	106 (41)	98 (37)	86 (30)	81 (27)	114 (46)
Mean maximum °F (°C)	72 (22)	76 (24)	82 (28)	86 (30)	91 (33)	96 (36)	100 (38)	101 (38)	96 (36)	89 (32)	eighty (27)	73 (23)	102 (39)
Average loftier °F (°C)	50.5 (10.3)	55.2 (12.9)	63.7 (17.half dozen)	72.eight (22.7)	80.5 (26.9)	88.2 (31.two)	91.seven (33.2)	91.v (33.i)	85.1 (29.5)	74.ii (23.iv)	61.9 (xvi.6)	52.vi (eleven.4)	72.3 (22.4)
Daily hateful °F (°C)	40.7 (4.8)	44.7 (vii.1)	52.seven (11.5)	61.4 (16.3)	69.nine (21.i)	78.0 (25.6)	81.4 (27.4)	80.8 (27.1)	74.0 (23.iii)	62.6 (17.0)	51.1 (ten.6)	43.0 (6.one)	61.seven (16.5)
Average depression °F (°C)	30.ix (−0.6)	34.2 (one.2)	41.eight (5.iv)	50.ane (10.1)	59.3 (15.2)	67.7 (19.eight)	71.2 (21.8)	70.1 (21.2)	62.9 (17.2)	50.ix (x.5)	twoscore.2 (4.half-dozen)	33.iii (0.seven)	51.0 (10.6)
Mean minimum °F (°C)	sixteen (−ix)	21 (−6)	27 (−3)	37 (3)	47 (viii)	threescore (16)	66 (19)	64 (18)	fifty (ten)	37 (3)	26 (−3)	20 (−7)	fourteen (−10)
Tape depression °F (°C)	−8 (−22)	−12 (−24)	11 (−12)	28 (−2)	38 (3)	46 (viii)	54 (12)	52 (11)	37 (3)	27 (−3)	x (−12)	−1 (−18)	−12 (−24)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	three.l (89)	3.97 (101)	iv.96 (126)	v.59 (142)	five.08 (129)	3.55 (90)	3.33 (85)	3.16 (80)	3.01 (76)	4.47 (114)	4.72 (120)	5.08 (129)	50.42 (1,281)
Average snowfall inches (cm)	1.ane (2.8)	i.6 (4.i)	0.v (ane.iii)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.six (ane.5)	3.8 (9.7)
Average atmospheric precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)	9.2	nine.3	x.5	nine.4	10.nine	eight.0	viii.7	seven.2	6.6	8.1	8.5	9.5	105.9
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in)	0.five	0.9	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.3	ii.ii
Mean monthly sunshine hours	180.ix	188.two	244.5	276.7	325.3	346.two	351.0	323.0	271.9	251.0	176.ix	166.two	iii,101.eight
Percent possible sunshine	58	62	66	71	75	lxxx	fourscore	78	73	72	57	54	lxx
Source: NOAA (dominicus 1961−1990 at Northward Little Rock Airport) [13] [14] [fifteen] [16]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1850	2,167		—
1860	3,727		72.0%
1870	12,380		232.2%
1880	13,138		half-dozen.1%
1890	25,874		96.ix%
1900	38,307		48.i%
1910	45,941		19.9%
1920	65,142		41.8%
1930	81,679		25.four%
1940	88,039		7.8%
1950	102,213		16.1%
1960	107,813		v.5%
1970	132,483		22.nine%
1980	159,151		20.ane%
1990	175,795		10.5%
2000	183,133		4.2%
2010	193,524		5.7%
2020	202,591		4.7%
U.S. Decennial Census [17]

2020 demography

Piffling Rock Racial Limerick ^[18]

Race	Num.	Perc.
White	85,401	42.15%
Black or African American	81,339	40.xv%
Native American	497	0.25%
Asian	seven,099	3.5%
Pacific Islander	69	0.03%
Other/Mixed	7,719	iii.81%
Hispanic or Latino	20,467	10.one%

As of the 2020 The states Demography, there were 202,591 people, 80,063 households, and 45,577 families residing in the city.

2005-2007 ACS

As of the 2005–2007 American Community Survey conducted past the U.S. Demography Bureau, White Americans fabricated upward 52.7% of Little Rock's population; of which 49.4% were non-Hispanic Whites, down from 74.1% in 1970. ^[19] Blacks or African Americans made upwardly 42.1% of Picayune Rock'due south population, with 42.0% beingness non-Hispanic blacks. American Indians made up 0.4% of Trivial Rock's population while Asian Americans made up 2.i% of the city's population. Pacific Islander Americans made upward less than 0.ane% of the metropolis's population. Individuals from some other race made up 1.ii% of the metropolis'due south population; of which 0.2% were non-Hispanic. Individuals from two or more races made upward one.4% of the city'southward population; of which one.1% were non-Hispanic. In addition, Hispanics and Latinos made up 4.7% of Little Rock's population.

Map of racial distribution in Little Rock, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White , Black , Asian , Hispanic or Other (yellowish)

2010 census

Every bit of the 2010 census, there were 193,524 people, 82,018 households, and 47,799 families residing in the city. The population density was i,576.0 people per square mile (608.5/km^two). At that place were 91,288 housing units at an average density of 769.1 per foursquare mile (296.95/km^two). The racial makeup of the city was 48.9% White, 42.3% Black, 0.4% Native American, 2.vii% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 3.9% from other races, and 1.7% from two or more than races. 6.eight% of the population is Hispanic or Latino.

In that location were 82,018 households, of which 30.5% had children nether the age of 18 living with them, 36.6% were married couples living together, 17.five% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.seven% were non-families. 34.viii% of all households were made up of individuals, and viii.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of historic period or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the boilerplate family unit size was three.00.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.seven% under the historic period of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 31.7% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of historic period or older. The median historic period was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $37,572, and the median income for a family was $47,446. Males had a median income of $35,689 versus $26,802 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,209 ^{[ citation needed ]} . 14.3% of the population is below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 20.ix% of those under the age of 18 and nine.0% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

Crime

In the late 1980s, Little Rock experienced a 51% increase in murder arrests of children under 17, and a twoscore% increment among 18- to 24-year-olds. From 1988 to 1992, murder arrests of youths nether xviii increased by 256%. ^[xx] By the end of 1992, Lilliputian Rock reached a record of 61 homicides, ^[21] but in 1993 surpassed it with 76. ^[22] It was one of the highest per-capita homicide rates in the state, placing Little Rock fifth in Money Magazine's 1994 listing of near dangerous cities. ^[20] In July 2017, a shootout occurred at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub in downtown Little Rock. Although in that location were no deaths, 20-eight people were injured and one hospitalized.

Economy

Downtown Little Stone

Dillard's Section Stores, Windstream Communications and Acxiom, Simmons Bank, Bank of the Ozarks, Rose Police Business firm, Cardinal Flight Service and large brokerage Stephens Inc. are headquartered in Little Rock. Large companies headquartered in other cities but with a large presence in Fiddling Rock are Dassault Falcon Jet virtually Footling Rock National Airport in the eastern part of the city, Allegiance National Information Services in northwestern Little Rock, and Welspun Corp in Southeast Little Rock. Niggling Rock and its surroundings are the headquarters for some of the world's largest nonprofit organizations, such as Winrock International, Heifer International, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Clinton Foundation, Lions Globe Services for the Blind, Clinton Presidential Center, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, FamilyLife, Audubon Arkansas, and The Nature Conservancy. Associations, such as the American Taekwondo Association, Arkansas Hospital Association, and the Quapaw Quarter Association. Arkansas Bluish Cross Blue Shield Association, Baptist Health Medical Centre, Entergy, Dassault Falcon Jet, Siemens, AT&T Mobility, Kroger, Euronet Worldwide, 50'Oréal, Timex, and UAMS are employers throughout Fiddling Stone. One of the largest public employers in the land with over 10,552 employees, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its healthcare partners—Arkansas Children's Hospital and the Key Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System—have a total economic bear on in Arkansas of about $5 billion per twelvemonth. UAMS receives less than 11% of its funding from the country. Its operation is funded by payments for clinical services (64%), grants and contracts (xviii%), philanthropy and other (5%), and tuition and fees (2%). The Petty Stone port is an intermodal river port with a large industrial business concern complex. It is designated every bit Foreign Trade Zone fourteen. International corporations such every bit Danish manufacturer LM Glasfiber accept established new facilities next to the port.

Along with Louisville and Memphis, Little Rock has a co-operative of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. ^[23]

Arts and culture

Cultural sites in Lilliputian Rock include the following.

• Arkansas Arboretum – at Acme Mountain, it has a trail with flora and tree plantings.
• Arkansas Arts Center – The state's largest art museum, containing drawings, collections, children'southward theater productions, works past Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and others in eight art galleries, a museum school, souvenir store and restaurant.
• Customs Theatre of Piddling Rock – Founded in 1956, it is the area's oldest performance art visitor. ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Arkansas Repertory Theatre – The state's largest professional person, not-for-profit theatre company, in its 34th flavor. "The Rep" produces works such equally gimmicky comedies, dramas, world premiers, and dramatic literature.
• Arkansas Symphony Orchestra ^[24] – In its 41st season, the orchestra performs over 30 concerts a yr and many events. ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Heifer International – Headquarters of the global hunger and poverty relief system, side by side to the Clinton Presidential Eye
• Quapaw Quarter – Beginning of the 20th century Little Rock consists of three National Register celebrated districts with at least a hundred buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Robinson Center Music Hall – The master functioning centre of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
• Wildwood Park for the Arts – The largest park dedicated to the performing arts in the South. It features seasonal festivals and cultural events.

Museums

William J. Clinton Presidential Library, in downtown Lilliputian Rock

• The Arkansas Arts Center, the state's largest cultural establishment, is a museum of fine art and an active middle for the visual and performing arts.
• The Museum of Discovery features hands-on exhibits in the fields of science, history and technology.
• The William J. Clinton Presidential Center includes the Clinton presidential library and the offices of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Schoolhouse of Public Service. The Library facility, designed past architect James Polshek, cantilevers over the Arkansas River, echoing Clinton's entrada promise of "building a bridge to the 21st century". The archives and library take 2 million photographs, eighty million pages of documents, 21 meg e-mail messages, and nearly eighty,000 artifacts from the Clinton presidency. The museum within the library showcases artifacts from Clinton's term and has a total-scale replica of the Clinton-era Oval Office. Opened on Nov xviii, 2004, the Clinton Presidential Eye cost $165 meg to construct and covers 150,000 square anxiety (14,000 m^two) within a 28-acre (113,000 m²) park.
• The Historic Arkansas Museum is a regional history museum focusing primarily on the frontier time period.
• The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History opened in 2001, the final remaining structure of the original Little Rock Arsenal and one of the oldest buildings in central Arkansas, it was the birthplace of General Douglas MacArthur who went on to be the supreme commander of United states of america forces in the South Pacific during World State of war II.
• The Quondam Land House Museum is a former state capitol building now home to a history museum focusing on Arkansas'southward contempo history.
• The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center is a nationally accredited, state-funded museum and cultural center focusing on African American history and culture in Arkansas.
• The ESSE Purse Museum illustrates the stories of American women'southward lives during the 1900s through their handbags and the day-to-mean solar day items carried in them

Theatre

Founded in 1976, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre is the state'south largest nonprofit professional person theatre company. A member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT D), The Rep has produced more than 300 productions, such as xl world premieres, in its building in downtown Little Stone. Producing Artistic Director John Miller-Stephany leads a resident staff of designers, technicians and administrators in eight to x productions for an almanac audition in excess of 70,000 for MainStage productions, educational programming and touring. The Rep produces works from contemporary comedies and dramas to world premiers and the classics of dramatic literature.

Outside mag named Trivial Rock one of its 2019 All-time Places to Alive. ^[25] Dozens of parks such as Pinnacle Mount Country Park are in Little Rock.

Government

The Pulaski County Courthouse is in Little Rock

The metropolis has operated nether the city manager form of government since November 1957. In 1993, voters approved changes from 7 at-large city directors (who rated the position of mayor among themselves) to a popularly elected mayor, 7 ward directors and three at-large directors. The position of mayor remained a function-time position until August 2007. At that point, voters approved making the mayor'due south position a full-time position with veto power, while a vice mayor is selected by and among members of the city board. The current mayor, elected in November 2018, is Frank Scott Jr., a erstwhile assistant banking company executive, pastor and land highway commissioner. The city managing director is Bruce T. Moore, the longest-serving city manager in Little Stone history. ^[26] The city employs over 2,500 people in 14 different departments, including the police force department, the burn department, parks and recreation, and the zoo.

Most Pulaski County government offices are in Piddling Rock, including the Quorum, Circuit, Commune, and Juvenile Courts; and the Assessor, County Judge, County Chaser, and Public Defender's offices.

Both the Usa District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Excursion have judicial facilities in Piddling Rock. The urban center is served by the Picayune Rock Police Section.

Pedagogy

Colleges and universities

Petty Rock is dwelling house to two universities that are part of the University of Arkansas Organization: the campuses of the Academy of Arkansas at Little Stone and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are in the city. UAMS is Arkansas'south largest basic and applied research institution, with programs in multiple myeloma, aging, and other areas. ^{[ citation needed ]} A pair of smaller, historically black colleges, Arkansas Baptist College and Philander Smith College, affiliated with the United Methodist Church building, are likewise in Little Stone. Located in downtown is the Clinton School of Public Service, a branch of the University of Arkansas Organisation, which offers master's degrees in public service. Pulaski Technical Higher has two locations in Little Rock. The Pulaski Technical College Lilliputian Rock-Due south site houses programs in automotive applied science, collision repair technology, commercial driver grooming, diesel technology, small engine repair engineering science and motorcycle/all-terrain vehicle repair technology. The Pulaski Technical College Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute and The Finish Line Cafe are also in Little Rock-Southward. There is a Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock associated with the American Baptist Clan. The school began as Missionary Baptist College in Sheridan in Grant County.

Secondary schools

Public schools

President Bill Clinton led celebrations of the 40th anniversary of desegregation at Little Stone Central High School.

Picayune Rock is habitation to both the Arkansas School for the Blind (ASB) and the Arkansas School for the Deaf (ASD), which are land-run schools operated past the Board of Trustees of the ASB–ASD. In addition, eStem Public Lease High School and LISA Academy provide tuition-free public education every bit charter schools.

The Little Stone School Commune (LRSD) operates the metropolis'southward comprehensive public school arrangement. As of 2012 ^[update] , the district has 64 schools with more schools existence built. As of the 2009–2010 schoolhouse year, the district's enrollment is 25,685. It has 5 high schools, 8 middle schools, 31 elementary schools, 1 early on childhood (pre-kindergarten) centre, ii alternative schools, 1 developed education center, 1 accelerated learning center, 1 career-technical center, and almost 3,800 employees.

LRSD public high schools include:

• Hall High School
• J. A. Off-white Scientific discipline and Engineering Systems Magnet Loftier School
• Fiddling Rock Central High School
• McClellan Magnet High School
• Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School
• Fiddling Rock Southwest Magnet High School

The Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) serves parts of Piffling Rock. PCSSD high schools are in the metropolis such equally:

• Mills Academy Studies High School
• Joe T. Robinson High School

Private schools

Various private schools are in Little Rock, such equally:

• Arkansas Baptist Schoolhouse System
• Fundamental Arkansas Christian Schools
• Christ Picayune Rock School
• Episcopal Collegiate Schoolhouse
• Little Stone Catholic High School
• Petty Rock Christian Academy
• Mount Saint Mary Academy
• Pulaski Academy

Little Stone'southward Cosmic high schoolhouse for African-Americans, St. Bartholomew High Schoolhouse, closed in 1964. The Catholic form schoolhouse St. Bartholomew Schoolhouse, likewise established for African-Americans, closed in 1974. ^[27] The Our Lady of Good Counsel Schoolhouse closed in 2006. ^[28]

Public libraries

The Central Arkansas Library System comprises the master edifice downtown and numerous branches throughout the urban center, Jacksonville, Maumelle, Perryville, Sherwood and Wrightsville. The Pulaski County Constabulary Library is at the William H. Bowen School of Law.

Notable places

• American Taekwondo Association Earth Headquarters. The American Taekwondo Association [ATA] is based in Little Rock where it hosts the World Taekwondo Championships each summer. The ATA World Headquarters is likewise headquarters for all of the Songahm Taekwondo organizations such every bit the American Taekwondo Association, the Songahm Taekwondo Federation and the World Traditional Taekwondo Wedlock. These combined organizations take millions of members in the US and worldwide. ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Arkansas River Trail
• Arkansas State Capitol – a neo-classical construction with many restored interior spaces, synthetic from 1899 to 1915.
• Large Dam Bridge – The longest pedestrian/wheel bridge in North America never been used by cars or trucks.
• Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Andrew (1878-1881)
• Clinton Presidential Library
• Heifer International
• Trivial Rock Marathon
• Niggling Stone Zoo – Consists of at least 725 animals and over 200 species.
• Pinnacle Mountain State Park
• Willow Springs H2o Park – one of the first h2o theme parks in the U.Due south. built in 1928.
• A poster traced back to the Cicada 3301 mystery was discovered in downtown Niggling Rock. ^[29]
• River Marketplace District (Little Rock, Arkansas)- A downtown entertainment district in historic buildings forth President Clinton Boulevard.

Sports

Society	League	Venue	Established	Championships
Arkansas Travelers	Texas League	Dickey-Stephens Park	1963 (played as the Little Stone Travelers from 1887-1961)	7
Lilliputian Rock Rangers	USL League Two	War Memorial Stadium	2016	0
Little Rock Trojans	NCAA Sectionalization I (Sun Belt Briefing)	Jack Stephens Middle and Gary Hogan Field	1927	3

Dickey Stephens Park

Little Rock is home to the Arkansas Travelers. They are the AA professional Pocket-sized League Baseball game affiliate of the Seattle Mariners in the Texas League. The Travelers played their final game in Little Rock at Ray Winder Field on September 3, 2006, and moved into Dickey-Stephens Park in nearby Northward Piddling Rock in April 2007.

The Trivial Stone Rangers soccer social club of the National Premier Soccer League played their inaugural seasons in 2016 & 2017 for the men's and women'due south teams respectively. Home games are played at State of war Memorial Stadium.

Little Stone was also abode to the Arkansas Twisters (afterwards Arkansas Diamonds) of Arena Football 2 and Indoor Football League and the Arkansas RimRockers of the American Basketball Association and NBA Development League. Both of these teams played at Verizon Arena in Due north Little Rock.

The metropolis is also home to the Niggling Rock Trojans, the athletic plan of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The majority of the school's athletic teams are housed in the Jack Stephens Middle, which opened in 2005. The Trojans play in the Sun Chugalug Briefing, where the Arkansas State Red Wolves are their chief rival.

Lilliputian Rock'due south War Memorial Stadium hosts at least one University of Arkansas Razorback football game each twelvemonth. The stadium is known for being in the middle of a golf class. Each fall, the city closes the golf grade on Razorback football game weekends to allow the estimated 80,000 people who nourish accept function in tailgating activities. State of war Memorial too hosts the Arkansas Loftier School football state championships, and starting in the autumn of 2006 hosts ane game apiece for the University of Central Arkansas and the Academy of Arkansas at Pino Barefaced. Arkansas Country Academy likewise plays at the stadium from time to fourth dimension.

Lilliputian Rock was a host of the Outset and Second Rounds of the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Information technology has as well been a host of the SEC Women'southward Basketball game Tournament.

The now defunct Arkansas RiverBlades and Arkansas GlacierCats, both minor-league hockey teams, were in the Little Rock area. The GlacierCats of the at present defunct Western Professional Hockey League (WPHL) played in Niggling Rock at Barton Coliseum while the RiverBlades of the ECHL played at the Verizon Arena.

Fiddling Stone is dwelling house to the Grande Maumelle Sailing Club. Established in 1959, the gild hosts multiple regattas during the twelvemonth on both Lake Maumelle and the Arkansas River.

Little Rock is likewise home to the Little Rock Marathon, held on the first Saturday of March every twelvemonth since 2003. The marathon features the world'south largest medal given to marathon participants.

Print

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette is the largest newspaper in the city, as well equally the state. As of March 31, 2006, Sunday circulation is 275,991 copies, while daily (Monday-Saturday) apportionment is 180,662, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The monthly magazine Arkansas Life, part of the newspaper's niche publications division, began publication in September 2008. From 2007 to 2015, the paper also published the free tabloid Sync Weekly. Showtime in 2020, the ADG ceased weekday publication of the paper and moved to an sectional online version. The but concrete newspaper the Democrat-Gazette at present publishes is a Sunday edition. ^[xxx]

The Daily Tape provides daily legal and real manor news each weekday. Healthcare news covered by Healthcare Journal of Little Stone. Entertainment and political coverage is provided weekly in Arkansas Times . Business and economics news is published weekly in Arkansas Business. Entertainment, Political, Business organisation, and Economics news is published Monthly in "Arkansas Talks" www.Arkansastalks.org

In improver to area newspapers, the Picayune Rock market is served by a diverseness of magazines covering various interests. The publications are:

• At Habitation in Arkansas
• AY Magazine
• Inviting Arkansas
• Fiddling Stone Family
• Trivial Rock Soiree
• RealLIVING

Television

Many television receiver networks have local affiliates in Little Rock, in addition to numerous independent stations. As for cable Tv set services, Comcast has a monopoly over Fiddling Rock and much of Pulaski County. Some suburbs have the choice of having Comcast, Lease or other cablevision companies.

Television stations in the Petty Stone expanse include:

Call messages	Number	Network
KETS/AETN	ii	PBS
KETS-ii	two.2	Create Arkansas Information Reading Service (sound only, merely on SAP; radio reading service)
KETS-3	2.3	PBS Kids
KETS-iv	2.4	World
KARK	4	NBC
Laff	4.two	Laff
Grit	4.three	Grit
Antenna Television set	4.4	Antenna TV
KATV	vii	ABC
KATV-DT2	7.2	Comet TV
Charge!	7.3	Accuse!
TBD	7.4	TBD
KTHV	11	CBS
THV2	xi.2	Court TV
Justice	11.three	Justice Network
Quest	11.4	Quest (U.Due south. TV network)
Circle	eleven.five	Circle (TV network)
Twist	11.half dozen	Twist
KLRT	16	Fox
	sixteen.2	Escape
KVTN	25	VTN: Your Arkansas Christian Connection
KASN	38	The CW
KKAP	36	Daystar
KARZ	42	MyNetworkTV
	42.two	Bounce TV
	42.3	Ion Tv set
KMYA-DT	49.ane	Me-TV

Infrastructure

Healthcare

Hospitals in Little Rock include:

• Arkansas Land Hospital– Psychiatric Division
• Arkansas Children's Infirmary
• Arkansas Heart Hospital
• Baptist Health Medical Middle
• Primal Arkansas Veteran'southward Health care Arrangement (CAVHS)
• Summit Pointe Hospital
• St. Vincent Health Organization
• UAMS Medical Center

Transportation

List of highways

I-thirty terminates at I-twoscore in North Niggling Rock

Two main Interstate Highways and iv auxiliary Interstates serve Little Rock. Interstate40 (I-forty) passes through North Little Stone to the northward, and I-thirty enters the metropolis from the south, ending at I-xl in the north of the Arkansas River. Shorter routes designed to arrange the menstruation of urban traffic across town include I-430, which bypasses the city to the west, I-440, which serves the eastern function of Lilliputian Rock including Clinton National Aerodrome, and I-630 which runs east–west through the metropolis, connecting west Piddling Rock with the primal business district. I-530 runs southeast to Pine Bluff as a spur route. ^[31]

U.Southward. Route70 (USseventy parallels I-forty into North Picayune Stone earlier multiplexing with I-30 at the Broadway leave (go out 141B). Usa67 and Usa167 share the same route from the northeast earlier splitting. US67 and The stateslxx multiplex with I-xxx to the southwest. Us167 multiplexes with U.s.a.65 and I-530 to the southeast.

Rail

Amtrak serves the city twice daily via the Texas Eagle, with northbound service to Chicago and southbound service to San Antonio, as well as numerous intermediate points. Through service to Los Angeles and intermediate points operates iii times a week. The train carries coaches, a sleeping car, a dining motorcar, and a Sightseer Lounge car. Reservations are required.

Class I railroads

• BNSF Railway (BNSF)
• Wedlock Pacific Railroad (UP)

Aviation

Vii airlines serve 14 national/international gateway cities, e.g. Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Charlotte, Orlando etc. from Clinton National Airport. In 2006 they carried approximately 2.i million passengers on approximately 116 daily flights to and from Little Rock.

Bus

Greyhound Lines serves Dallas and Memphis, every bit well equally intermediate points, with numerous connections to other cities and towns. Jefferson Lines serves Fort Smith, Kansas Metropolis, and Oklahoma Urban center, equally well equally intermediate points, with numerous connections to other cities and towns. These carriers operate out of the N Piffling Rock bus station.

Public transportation

The Metro Streetcar crossing the Arkansas River

Rock Region Metro, which until 2015 was named the Key Arkansas Transit Potency (CATA), provide public double-decker service within the city. Every bit of January 2010, CATA operated 23 regular fixed routes, 3 express routes, as well as special events shuttle buses and paratransit service for disabled persons. ^{[ commendation needed ]} Of the 23 fixed-route services, 16 offer daily service, 6 offer weekday service with limited service on Sabbatum, and one route runs exclusively on weekdays. The three express routes run on weekday mornings and afternoons.

Since November 2004, Rock Region Metro's Metro Streetcar system (formerly the River Runway Electric Streetcar) has served downtown Niggling Rock and North Trivial Stone. The Streetcar is a 3.four-mile (v.v km)-long heritage streetcar organization that runs from the Northward Little Stone City Hall and throughout downtown Little Rock earlier it crosses over to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. The streetcar line has xiv stops and a fleet of 5 cars with a daily ridership of effectually 350.

Modal characteristics

According to the 2016 American Customs Survey, 82.9 percent of working Lilliputian Rock residents commuted past driving lonely, 8.9 percent carpooled, 1.one percent used public transportation, and one.8 pct walked. Nigh 1.3 percent commuted by all other means of transportation, including taxi, bicycle, and motorcycle. About four percent worked out of the dwelling. ^[32]

In 2015, 8.2 percent of metropolis of Piddling Rock households were without a automobile, which increased slightly to viii.9 percent in 2016. The national average was 8.7 per centum in 2016. Little Stone averaged i.58 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of i.8 per household. ^[33]

Notable people

• Matt Besser (built-in 1967), improvisational comedian and Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder
• Bobo Brazil (1924–1998), African-American professional wrestler
• Howell Chambers Brownish (1880–1954), printmaker ^[34]
• Minnie A. Buzbee (1880–1955), broker, advert executive
• Chelsea Clinton (born 1980), girl of Bill and Hillary Clinton
• Jeremy Davis (built-in 1985), quondam bassist of stone band Paramore
• Danielle Evans (born 1985), model, winner of Bike vi of "America's Side by side Top Model"
• John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Pulitzer Prize–winning Imagist poet and author ^[35]
• Carlos Hathcock (1942–1999), Marine sniper
• Will Hastings (born 1996), football thespian for the New England Patriots
• The Piffling Rock Ix, group of African American students who were initially prevented past the state government from entering a racially segregated schoolhouse in 1957 (most members were born in Lilliputian Rock).
• Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), U.Southward. general
• Sanford N. McDonnell (1922–2012), engineer, businessman and philanthropist; old chairman and CEO of McDonnell Douglas
• Darren McFadden (built-in 1987), football player for the Dallas Cowboys
• Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991), cellist and advocate for advanced music
• Ben Piazza (1933–1991), histrion
• Nate Powell (born 1978), graphic novelist and musician.
• Florence Toll (1887–1953), classical composer
• Brooks Robinson (born 1937), Hall of Fame tertiary baseman for the Baltimore Orioles
• Leora Bettison Robinson (1840–1914), author, educator
• Pharoah Sanders (born 1940), jazz saxophonist
• Sheryl Underwood (built-in 1963), Emmy-winning co-host of The Talk , stand-up comedian and extra
• Bobby Portis (born 1995), NBA player for the Milwaukee Bucks and 2021 NBA champion

Sister cities

Petty Stone'southward sister cities are: ^[36]

See also

• Arkansas Metropolitan Areas
• Baptist Missionary Association of America
• Jack Stephens Eye
• List of capitals in the United states of america
• Piffling Rock Air Force Base of operations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas
• USS Trivial Rock (CL-92)
• USS Little Stone (LCS-nine) ^[37]

Notes

1. ↑ Hateful monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the expected highest and lowest temperature readings at whatever point during the year or given month) calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020.
2. ↑ Official records for Little Rock began on 28 February 1875 at the State Capitol and maintained at that place until 30 Apr 1942. The adjacent twenty-four hour period, and until vii August 1942, temperature and atmospheric precipitation were recorded separately at two different locations in and effectually Piddling Stone, and the official climatology station has been Adams Field since 8 Baronial 1942. For more than information, see Threadex

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Further reading

• The Atlas of Arkansas, Richard Thousand. Smith 1989
• Cities in the U.S.; The South, Fourth Edition, Volume ane, Linda Schmittroth, 2001
• Greater Little Stone: a gimmicky portrait, Letha Mills, 1990
• How Nosotros Lived: Lilliputian Stone as an American City, Frederick Hampton Roy, 1985
• Morgan, James. "Piffling Rock: The 2005 American Heritage Great American Place" American Heritage, October 2005.
• O'Donnell, William W. (1987). The Civil War Quadrennium: A Narrative History of Solar day-to-Twenty-four hours Life in Petty Stone, Arkansas During the American War Between Northern and Southern States 1861-1865 (2nded.). Little Rock, Ark.: Civil War Round Table of Arkansas. LCCN 85-72643 – via Horton Brothers Printing Visitor.
• Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Niggling Stone, Arkansas, 1940-1970, John A. Kirk, 2002.

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