In 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state in the United States. Today, more than 3 million residents live in the state’s diverse terrain, from the rugged Ozark mountains to the plains along the Mississippi River. Here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Arkansas and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.
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A couple takes in the view from Hawksbill Crag at sunrise, on the Whitaker Point Trail in the Ozark National Forest in Newton County, Arkansas. #
A sunset view of the historic Washington County Courthouse in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas #
Farmer Ben Burgess examines a rice field for a type of low-yield rice near Coy, Arkansas, on August 7, 2013. #
An interior view of Anthony Chapel at Garvan Woodland Gardens, in Hot Springs, Arkansas #
An elk walks through a field in rural Arkansas. #
A view down Main Street in Eureka Springs, Arkansas #
An aerial view of a cropduster spraying a field after crops were planted in Lonoke, Arkansas #
The Boxley Baptist Church near Ponca, Arkansas, is decorated for Christmas. #
Old Main, on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, catches the morning light after a snowfall. #
Fans of the Arkansas Razorbacks rally before a game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers at Bud Walton Arena on December 9, 2017, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. #
Corn grows in a field near a grain elevator in Dumas, Arkansas, on June 5, 2012. #
Looking south, down State Line Avenue along the Texas-Arkansas border, with the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, on the left, and the city of Texarkana, Texas, on the right #
People canoe down the Buffalo River. #
An aerial view of Beaver Lake, a reservoir near Eureka Springs #
A view of the Walmart Museum in downtown Bentonville, the birthplace of the Walmart empire, photographed on November 4, 2018 #
An interior view of the Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, on May 31, 2012 #
A coal train stops alongside the White Bluff power plant near Redfield, Arkansas, on June 2, 2014. #
A boy stands at the mouth of a cave in northwestern Arkansas. #
A cotton field ready for harvest near Jonesboro, Arkansas #
Downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, around sunset #
The Old Mill, a recreation of a historic grist mill, photographed in T. R. Pugh Memorial Park, in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 22, 2018 #
A River Rail streetcar runs in downtown Little Rock on October 24, 2009. The line, now known as METRO Streetcar, is a heritage streetcar line that opened in 2004, after the original streetcar lines of Little Rock stopped operation in 1947. #
A river barge operates in the Arkansas River near Little Rock, at dawn. #
Hundreds of snow geese fly above farm fields along the Arkansas and Mississippi border. #
Bobbie Oskarson holds the 8.52-carat diamond she discovered at Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds State Park at Murfreesboro, on June 24, 2015. Park officials said that the gem found by Oskarson was the fifth-largest diamond found since the park was established in 1972. The park did not provide an estimate of the diamond's potential value. #
A view down Cherry Street in downtown Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, on July 22, 2008 #
An owl in Bayou de View, Arkansas #
Hazy skies over mountains in the Flatside Wilderness Area in central Arkansas #
A group of pelicans gathers below a dam on the Arkansas river. #
The Monroe County Courthouse stands in Clarendon, Arkansas. #
Pecan trees overhang a two-lane rural highway in central Arkansas. #
Residents enjoy a Saturday-morning farmers' market in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas. #
Part of Hot Springs, Arkansas, as seen from the Mountain Tower in Hot Springs National Park on July 24, 2019 #
Sunlight lights up steam coming from a fountain of hot-spring water in Hot Springs, Arkansas. #
An autumn view of bald cypress trees in Rosenbaum Lake, in North Little Rock #
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