Forrest City, Arkansas | |
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Motto(s): One Forrest City, moving forward, one step at a time | |
![]() Location of Forrest City in St. Francis County, Arkansas | |
Coordinates: 35°00′20″N 90°47′19″W / 35.00556°N 90.78861°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Arkansas |
County | St. Francis |
Area | |
• Total | 20.31 sq mi (52.60 km2) |
• Land | 20.25 sq mi (52.43 km2) |
• Water | 0.07 sq mi (0.17 km2) |
Elevation | 249 ft (76 m) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 13,015 |
• Density | 642.87/sq mi (248.22/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP Code | 72335 |
FIPS code | 05-24430 |
GNIS feature ID | 2403637[2] |
Website | cityofforrestcityar |
Forrest City is a city in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States, and the county seat.[3] It was named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a notable Confederate war ‘hero’ and founder of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist group. 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. The population was 15,371 at the 2010 census, an increase from 14,774 in 2000. The city identifies as the "Jewel of the Delta".[4]
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