Prattsville, Arkansas

Coordinates: 34°19′02″N 92°32′34″W / 34.31722°N 92.54278°W / 34.31722; -92.54278
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Prattsville, Arkansas
FIPS code
05-57230
GNIS feature ID2407158[2]

Prattsville is a city

2010 census. It is part of the Central Arkansas
region.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.3 km2 (1.7 mi2), all land.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1970299—
19803176.0%
1990251−20.8%
200028212.4%
20103058.2%
2020289−5.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[4]

As of the

Latino
of any race were 0.35% of the population.

There were 115 households, out of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.7% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.95.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 23.8% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.3 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $42,679, and the median income for a family was $47,500. Males had a median income of $30,000 versus $19,000 for females. The

poverty line
, including 19.1% of those under the age of eighteen and 20.4% of those 65 or over.

History

Prattsville, then part of

Saline River and served as the postmaster for Lost Creek Post Office in 1846.[5]
Mr. Pratt founded Philadelphia Baptist Church soon after settling in the area south of the modern day city limits.

A section of the pre-statehood wagon road, the Old Camden Trail, was a highly traveled road throughout the nineteenth century that connected Little Rock and

Battle of Jenkins Ferry.[7] Gen. Steele's Camden expedition cost the Union army countless men and badly needed supplies.[8] Gen. Steele and the Union Army escaped and made a retreat back to Little Rock along the Old Camden Trail.[9][10]

Education

The Sheridan School District operates area public schools. The Prattsville School District merged into the Sheridan district on July 1, 1994.[11]

Notable Prattsvillians

U.S. Representative from Arkansas. He served six terms from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1935. He was admitted to the bar in 1910.[12]

Arkansas Legislature (1905–1912) from Sheridan. He lived briefly as a child in Prattsville. In 1909, he introduced the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges.[13]

The Masters golf tournament. He is interred at Philadelphia Cemetery in Prattsville.[15]

Wilton "Witt" R. Stephens (1907–1991) was born in Prattsville and was the older brother of Jack Stephens. He began his career selling belt buckles and Bibles door to door in the late 1920s. During the Great Depression, Witt purchased municipal bonds for ten cents on the dollar, confident that the bonds would be redeemable under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He sold the bonds at a profit to make a small fortune in the worst economic climate in American history. He went on to invest in natural gas, oil, and gold mining industries. After World War II, he was known as the "kingmaker" due to his influential power over the state's political branches. He served two terms in his father's State House seat starting in 1961.[14] The Grant County Museum building is named in his honor. He is interred in Philadelphia Cemetery in Prattsville.[16]

unconstitutional.[18]

References

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  2. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prattsville, Arkansas
  3. ^ Local.Arkansas.gov - Prattsville, retrieved September 3, 2012
  4. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  5. ^ Crowson, Robert L. (July 1988). "From Alabama to Arkansas An 1841 Journey". Grassroots Journal of the Grant County Museum. Retrieved June 3, 2012.]
  6. ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  7. ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  8. ^ Arkansas History Commission, "Documenting Arkansas: The Civil War 1861-1865," pg. 78-83. (2012)
  9. ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  10. ^ Lancaster, Jim. "Crossing Saline River at Jenkin's Ferry". Retrieved June 3, 2012.
  11. ^ "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls Archived 2015-09-12 at the Wayback Machine." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.
  12. ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  13. ^ "ASU-Jonesboro: Act 100 Re-enactment Ceremony". astate.edu. Archived from the original on January 16, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  14. ^ a b "Arkansas Business 20th Anniversary". www.arkansasbusiness.com. Archived from the original on April 21, 2004.
  15. ^ "Obituary Notice - Jackson T. "Jack" Stephens".
  16. ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  17. ^ "UALR Law - Congressman Ray Thornton - University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law". Archived from the original on October 10, 2010. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
  18. ^ a b "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  19. ^ 514 U.S. 779 (1995); https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1456.ZO.html
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