was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on this date in 1836.
Arkansas is the 29th largest state (53,182 square miles); it ranks 32nd in population (2.75 million).
It has 75 counties.
The name “Arkansas” comes from French explorers’ (Marquette and others) pronounciation of the term that Indians of the Ohio Valley used to refer to the Quapaws, the Indians who lived in what is now northeastern Arkansas.
The state bird is the mockingbird.
The two individuals depicted in Statuary Hall in the National Capitol are James Paul Clarke and Uriah Milton Rose.