Fort Smith is safer than 3% of the cities in the United States. In Fort Smith you have a 1 in 18 chance of becoming a victim of any crime. The number of total year over year crimes in Fort Smith has decreased by 16%.
Living in Fort Smith offers residents a dense suburban feel and most residents own their homes. In Fort Smith there are a lot of coffee shops and parks. Many families and young professionals live in Fort Smith and residents tend to lean conservative. The public schools in Fort Smith are highly rated.
Fort Smith was established as a western frontier military post in 1817, when it was also a center of fur trading. The city developed there. It became well known as a base for migrants' settling of the "Wild West" and for its law enforcement heritage.
Arkansas is the only US State that produces diamonds. The state is known for its beautiful lakes, rivers, and hot springs. It has over 600,000 acres of lakes. The Arkansas state musical instrument is the fiddle.
The principal purpose of the fort was to keep the peace between the Osage and Cherokee tribes that had entered the area, as was the Fort Smith Council, a meeting held between Indian and territorial leaders in 1822.
Fort Smith was established as a military outpost to patrol the neighboring Indian Territory in 1817 and was named after General Thomas Smith. The fort was abandoned seven years later in 1824, but by that time a town founded by John Rogers was formed alongside the fort. The fort was re-occupied and expanded in 1838.
The military bases in Arkansas have 4,000 active duty members but the majority are Reserve Forces – over 11,700 in total. All of these 15,000 service members are spread out over two military bases: Little Rock AFB and Fort Chaffee.
More than 2,500 C-130s have been manufactured, and they are spread across more than 70 nations, Hecker said. No air base in the world has more Super Hercules aircraft than Little Rock, which has 42 -- 14 assigned to the 62nd Squadron, Hecker said.
Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities. Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.
