Forrest City
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city in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- St. Francis
- Total
- 20.31 sq mi (52.60 km )
- Land
- 20.24 sq mi (52.43 km )
- Water
- 0.066 sq mi (0.17 km )
- Elevation
- 249 ft (76 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 12,308
- Density
- 642.9/sq mi (248.22/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 05-24430
- Website
- cityofforrestcityar .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Named after
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Official name
- Forrest City
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- St. Francis County
- Population
- 13015
- Area
- 42.351617
- Elevation
- 77
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- St. Francis County
- Official website
- cityofforrestcityar.com
- Image
- Forrest City AR 016.jpg
- Households
- 4276
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- topic's main category
- Category:Forrest City, Arkansas
- Commons category
- Forrest City, Arkansas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Forrest City, Arkansas
- inception
- 1870-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0.3709
- P8168
- Polyprion americanus
- water area
- 0.157088
- per capita income
- 15395
- postal code
- 72336
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Encyclopedic overview
Forrest City is a city in and the county seat of St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. It was named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a notable Confederate war hero who later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Shortly after the end of the Civil War, he had a construction crew camped here, who were completing a railroad between Memphis and Little Rock. As of the 2020 census, Forrest City had a population of 13,015. The city identifies as the "Jewel of the Delta".
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forrest City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.