Pettus, Arkansas

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Pettus, Arkansas
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Coordinates: 34°40′38″N91°54′45″W / 34.67722°N 91.91250°W / 34.67722; -91.91250 Coordinates: 34°40′38″N91°54′45″W / 34.67722°N 91.91250°W / 34.67722; -91.91250
Country United States
State Arkansas
County Lonoke
Elevation
230 ft (70 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 501
GNIS feature ID57155 [1]

Pettus is an unincorporated community in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States. [1] [2]

Lonoke County, Arkansas County in the United States

Lonoke County is a county located in the Central Arkansas region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,356, making it the eleventh-most populous of Arkansas's seventy-five counties. The county seat is Lonoke and largest city is Cabot. Lonoke County was formed on April 16, 1873 from Pulaski County and Prairie County, and was named as a corruption of "lone oak", after a large red oak in the area that had been used by a surveyor to lay out the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.

Arkansas U.S. state in the United States

Arkansas is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2018. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.

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  1. 1 2 "Pettus, Arkansas". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. Arkansas Department of Transportation-Lonoke County

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