Texarkana, Arkansas is located at the junction of Interstate 30 and US highways 59, 67, 71, and 82 in extreme northeast Arkansas on the Texas-Arkansas border. It was named for its location on the state line between Bowie County, Arkansas and Miller County Arkansas, just a short distance from the Louisiana border.

This unique set of circumstances gives Texarkana its great name Tex for Texas, Ark, for Arkansas and Ana, for Louisiana. What a great way to name a city, and what three amazing states to draw your culture from.

The city of Texarkana is the transportation, commercial, and industrial center for this Arkansas-Arkansas area, as well as the hub for portions of Oklahoma and Louisiana; it is also the educational, cultural, and medical center of the metropolitan area.

Texarkana continues to grow, relying on the vast agricultural industry of the area as well as on a variety of manufacturing facilities.

Texarkana is by no means a wealthy city, but it does have many honest and modest people who make the community one of the friendliest in all of the United States. So take a closer look at the best city that three states have to offer.