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State Facts

  1. North Little Rock offers one of the nation’s largest municipal parks.

  2. Famous singer Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland.

  3. The Arkansas River is the longest stream to flow into the Mississippi-Missouri river system. Its total length is 1,450 miles.

  4. Milk is the official state beverage. It was designated in 1985.

  5. A person from Arkansas is called an Arkansan.

  6. The Ozark National Forest covers more than one million acres.

  7.  hot springs flow from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain, at an average temperature of 143 F.

  8. The South Arkansas vine ripe pink tomato is the official state fruit and blossom. It was designated in 1987.

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