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ID: 7016172
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Record Type: administrative |
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Arkansas (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 093 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -93.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area was home to Bluff Dwellers by 500 BCE, later to Mound Builders; Caddo, Quapaw, and others lived here when European fur traders arrived in 17th century; in Louisiana Purchase of 1803; was slave state, but only reluctantly joined Confederacy in Civil War. |
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| Arkansas (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name derived from the French record of the name of an Amerindian tribe & village |
| AR (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since June 15, 1836 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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