Walnut Ridge
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city in Arkansas, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Lawrence
- Mayor
- Charles Snapp
- Total
- 16.62 sq mi (43.05 km )
- Land
- 16.62 sq mi (43.05 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 272 ft (83 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 5,478
- Density
- 324.0/sq mi (125.08/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 05-72890
- Gnis feature id
- 0078686
- Website
- www .cityofwalnutridge .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Walnut Ridge
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lawrence County
- Population
- 5384
- Area
- 41.470225
- Elevation
- 82
- Capital of
- Lawrence County
- Official website
- www.cityofwalnutridge.com
- Image
- Walnut Ridge AR 2013-04-27 005.jpg
- Households
- 1993
- Dialing code
- 870
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- Commons category
- Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
- postal code
- 72476
- inception
- 1875-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0
- P8168
- BSD
- water area
- 0
- per capita income
- 23042
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Encyclopedic overview
Walnut Ridge is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Walnut Ridge had a population of 5,384. Walnut Ridge lies immediately north of Hoxie. The two towns form a contiguous urban area with approximately 8,000 residents. Williams Baptist University is in College City, a formerly separate community that merged into Walnut Ridge in 2017.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Walnut Ridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.