Ark-La-Tex

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Map of the Ark-La-Tex region

The Ark-La-Tex (a portmanteau of the abbreviations for Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; also stylized as Arklatex or ArkLaTex) is a socio-economic region where the Southern U.S. states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas join together.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> The region contains portions of Northwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas, and South Arkansas as well as Oklahoma's southeasternmost county, McCurtain County (part of Choctaw Country).

The population of the 40-county core region as of 2020 is 1,469,860 people, down from 1,515,056 in 2010.Template:Efn Shreveport, Louisiana, with 187,593 people in 2020, is the largest city, economic and geographic center of the region, and principal hub for both the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area and Northwestern Louisiana. Longview, Texas, with a population of 81,683 people in 2020, is the second-largest city as well as a principal city of the Tyler–Longview metropolitan conurbation and Greater Longview metropolitan area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and Texarkana, Arkansas, are the fourth- and sixth-largest cities, respectively, but collectively make up the region's third-largest metropolitan area (with a combined population exceeding 140,000 residents) as the center of the Texarkana metropolitan area encompassing Miller County, Arkansas, and Bowie County, Texas. Other cities in the Ark-La-Tex with 20,000 or more residents include Bossier City, Louisiana; Nacogdoches, Texas; Marshall, Texas; and Ruston, Louisiana.

The counties in the area's western section are largely part of the East Texas region (except for McCurtain County, Oklahoma, which is part of the Choctaw Country tourist region) and mainly encompass the Tyler–Longview–Lufkin–Nacogdoches television market area, while the counties and parishes in the eastern half of the region are included in the Shreveport–Texarkana television market. However, some Arkansas counties—under certain, looser definitions of the Ark-La-Tex region—in northwesternmost areas of the southwestern section of the state are included in the Little Rock viewing area.

Etymology

Although use of the term to refer to the tri-state region dates back to the early 1900s, the name "Ark-La-Tex" was popularized regionally by a Shreveport Chamber of Commerce promotional campaign developed in 1932–33 to increase tourism in the area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The campaign, dubbing the area as "The Land of Arklatex", was based on the idea that "the interests of all the people in the Tri-state area of South Arkansas, North Louisiana and East Texas are practically identical in matters pertaining to agriculture, industry, commerce and trade, and education." The region is alternatively, although seldom in most media and promotional parlance, referred to as "Arklatexoma", which more inclusively encompasses McCurtain County and other parts of extreme Southeastern Oklahoma that lie along the Red River.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Geography

The Ark-La-Tex covers over Template:Convert across the four-state area;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> if the Ark-La-Tex were a U.S. state, it would be larger than Maryland. Most of the Ark-La-Tex is located in the Piney Woods, an ecoregion of dense forests of mixed deciduous and conifer flora. The forests are periodically punctuated by sloughs and bayous that are linked to larger bodies of water such as Caddo Lake or the Red River. Three of the four National Forests located within the Piney Woods of East Texas are wholly or partially within the Ark-La-Tex boundaries: Angelina National Forest (spanning Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine and Jasper counties), Sabine National Forest (near Hemphill) and Davy Crockett National Forest (between Lufkin and Crockett).

The Red River is the principal mainstem waterway in the region, exiting from the eastern end of Lake Texoma and running generally east along the Oklahoma–Texas border towards Southwestern Arkansas (entering it near the state line between Little River County, Arkansas, and Bowie County, Texas) before turning southward northwest of Texarkana (in so doing, forming the eastern border of Miller County) and passing into Northwestern Louisiana. The bordering Louisiana cities of Shreveport and Bossier City were developed along the river bank; its span within the Ark-La-Tex ends in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (where the Red River spans to the adjacent northwest of the parish's namesake county seat), at its intersection with Grant and Rapides parishes.

Definition

As with all vernacular regions, the Ark-La-Tex has no official boundaries or status and is defined differently by various sources.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Most definitions of the Ark-La-Tex delineate the region as encompassing 40 parishes and counties, and most weather radars suggest a 40-county or -parish area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Col-begin

Louisiana (13 parishes)

Arkansas (10 counties)

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Oklahoma (one county)

Texas (16 counties)

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Alternate definitions can include eight additional Texas counties (Lamar, Delta, Hopkins, Franklin, Wood, Smith, Cherokee, and Angelina), include the Monroe, Louisiana metropolitan area and Ouachita Parish, Louisiana (which is considered part of the Ark-La-Miss region), exclude the counties encompassing the El Dorado, Arkansas micropolitan area, or exclude McCurtain County, Oklahoma. McCurtain County is usually included in the region's areal definition, primarily for media distribution purposes, even though the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation formally defines it as being part of its Choctaw Country tourism region.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Another alternate definition is solely the vicinity of the Ark-La-Tex region's three principal cities, Shreveport, Longview, and Texarkana.

Climate

The Ark-La-Tex is situated in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) typical of the Southeastern United States, albeit occasionally interrupted by intrusions of cold air during the winter months. Rainfall is abundant, with the normal annual precipitation averaging over Template:Convert in some areas (such as Shreveport), with monthly averages ranging from less than Template:Convert in August to more than Template:Convert in June. Portions of East Texas within the region receive more rainfall, Template:Convert, than the rest of the state.<ref name="Weather">Template:Cite web</ref> Due to the flat topography of some areas and the prominence of smaller waterways that are prone to backwater flooding from the Red River, communities occasionally experience severe flooding events. A notable occurrence of severe flooding occurred in March 2016, after torrential rains caused a rapid rise of many local waterways, displacing upwards of 3,500 people from their homes across Caddo and Bossier parishes and adjacent areas of Northwest Louisiana that lie along the Red River.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Freezing rain and ice storms occasionally occur during the winter months.

Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail, damaging winds and tornadoes occur in the area during the spring and summer months, although severe weather can also occur during the winter months. The region is in the western section of the "Dixie Alley" tornado climatology region, where tornadogenesis is most often attributed by high precipitation supercell thunderstorms—within which tornadoes are often partially or fully wrapped in curtains of heavy rain, impairing them from being seen by storm spotters and chasers, law enforcement, and the public—due to an increase of moisture from proximity to the nearby Gulf of Mexico. Some areas of the region, such as Bossier City, average a slightly above normal rate of tornadoes when compared to the national average. The winter months are normally mild; Shreveport, in particular, averages 35 days of freezing or below-freezing temperatures per year. Ice and sleet storms occasionally occur during this timeframe. The summer months are hot and humid, with high to very high relative average humidity, often as a result of moisture being advected from the Gulf of Mexico; in Shreveport, maximum temperatures exceed Template:Convert an average of 91 days per year.

The National Weather Service (NWS) operates a Weather Forecast Office in Shreveport, which provides local weather forecasts and warnings, watches and advisories for hazardous weather conditions for 39 counties and parishes within the greater Ark-La-Tex region.

Communities

Largest cities

List of cities with over 3,500 people (in 2020):

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Louisiana

City Parish Population
Blanchard Caddo 3,538
Bossier City Bossier 62,701
Eastwood Bossier 4,390
Grambling Lincoln 5,239
Haughton Bossier 4,539
Jonesboro Jackson 4,106
Mansfield DeSoto 4,714
Minden Webster 11,928
Natchitoches Natchitoches 18,039
Red Chute Bossier 7,065
Ruston Lincoln 22,166
Shreveport Caddo, Bossier 187,593
Springhill Webster 4,801
Winnfield Winn 4,153

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Texas

City County Population
Atlanta Cass 5,433
Carthage Panola 6,569
Center Shelby 5,221
Gilmer Upshur 4,843
Gladewater Gregg, Upshur 6,134
Hallsville Harrison 4,277
Henderson Rusk 13,271
Kilgore Gregg, Rusk 13,376
Longview Gregg, Harrison 105,184
Marshall Harrison 55,446
Mount Pleasant Titus 16,047
Nacogdoches Nacogdoches 32,147
Nash Bowie 3,814
New Boston Bowie 4,612
Pittsburg Camp 4,335
Texarkana Bowie 60,113
Wake Village Bowie 5,945
White Oak Gregg 6,225

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Arkansas

City County Population
Ashdown Little River 4,261
Camden Ouachita 10,612
De Queen Sevier 6,105
El Dorado Union 17,755
Hope Hempstead 8,952
Magnolia Columbia 11,162
Nashville Howard 4,153
Texarkana Miller 29,387

Oklahoma

City County Population
Broken Bow McCurtain 4,228
Idabel McCurtain 6,961

Metropolitan and micropolitan areas

Metropolitan statistical areas

MSA Primary city/cities State(s) Counties
or parishes 		Total area Population (2023)<ref name=PopEstCBSA>Template:Cite web</ref>
Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area Shreveport
Bossier City
Mansfield 		Louisiana Bossier
Caddo
DeSoto 		Template:Convert 383,295
Greater Longview metropolitan area Longview Texas Gregg
Harrison
Rusk
Upshur 		Template:Convert 705,231
Greater Texarkana metropolitan area Texarkana, AR
Texarkana, TX 		Texas
Arkansas 		Bowie, TX
Little River, AR
Miller, AR 		Template:Convert 145,907

Micropolitan statistical areas

μSA Primary city/cities State(s) Counties
or parishes 		Total area Population (2023)<ref name=PopEstCBSA/>
Nacogdoches, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area Nacogdoches Texas Nacogdoches Template:Convert 65,375
Mount Pleasant, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area Mount Pleasant Texas Camp
Morris
Titus 		Template:Convert 56,423
Ruston, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area Ruston
Grambling 		Louisiana Lincoln Template:Convert 47,962
El Dorado, AR Micropolitan Statistical Area El Dorado Arkansas Union Template:Convert 37,397
Natchitoches, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area Natchitoches Louisiana Natchitoches Template:Convert 36,291
Minden, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area Minden Louisiana Webster Template:Convert 35,238
Camden, AR Micropolitan Statistical Area Camden Arkansas Calhoun
Ouachita 		Template:Convert 26,434
Magnolia, AR Micropolitan Statistical Area Magnolia Arkansas Columbia Template:Convert 22,150

Culture

The culture of the Ark-La-Tex region, and especially its music, shows a mixture of influences from the related, but distinct, cultures of its surrounding states. The music of the area is marked by country and blues sounds typical of the music of the Southern United States, the Western music of Texas, and the well-documented music of New Orleans and Acadiana in Louisiana.<ref>See generally Kip Lornell and Tracey E. W. Laird, eds., Shreveport Sounds in Black and White (University Press of Mississippi, 2008), Template:ISBN, and in particular the introductory section entitled "The 'Ark-La-Tex' and Music Research" at pp. xii-xvii. Excerpts available at Google Books; other excerpts also available at Amazon.com here.</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The area had a significant role in the development of country and rock-and-roll music, beginning in the 1940s. On March 1, 1948, Shreveport radio station KWKH launched a country music variety show called the Ark-La-Tex Jubilee, followed a month later by the long-running and influential Louisiana Hayride program.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Hayride director Horace Logan and regular performer Webb Pierce started a music publishing company called Ark-La-Tex Music.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>"KWKH Maps Big Build-Up on Hillbillies", Billboard, August 30, 1952, p. 19.</ref> Drummer Brian Blade, a Shreveport native, included a song entitled "Ark.La.Tex." on his 2014 album Landmarks, exploring the mixture of musical influences in his home region.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Education

Colleges and universities

Template:See also The region contains Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, part of the University of Texas System, and Louisiana Tech University, a public research university in Ruston, which are the largest public institutions of higher education in the Ark-La-Tex. Named after Stephen F. Austin, who led the second and most successful colonization of the region that would become the state of Texas through the migration of 300 families from other parts of the United States in 1825, the former of the two major universities was founded as a teachers' college in 1923 as a result of legislation authored by State Senator Wilfred Roy Cousins, Sr.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Louisiana Tech opened in 1894 (as the Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana) to provide educational subjects pertaining to the arts and sciences for the development of an industrial economy in Louisiana post-Reconstruction.<ref name="Louisiana1897">Template:Cite book</ref> In the 1960s the school (then named Louisiana Polytechnic Institute) became desegregated, and allowed integrated classes with white and black students; after it achieved criteria of a research university under the leadership of President F. Jay Taylor, the university officially adopted its current name in 1970. Louisiana Tech also operates a satellite campus in Shreveport as well as classes at the Academic Success Center and Barksdale Air Force Base Instructional Site in Bossier City, and at the CenturyLink corporate headquarters in Monroe. Ruston is also home to a branch campus of Monroe-based Louisiana Delta Community College.

The Shreveport–Bossier City area is home to several colleges; among them, the Methodist-affiliated Centenary College of Louisiana (originally founded in the East Feliciana Parish town of Jackson in 1825, eventually relocating to Shreveport in 1908), Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary (founded in 1973), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport (opened in 1969 as the only medical school in northern Louisiana) and one of the largest nursing schools in northern Louisiana, the Northwestern State University College of Nursing (opened in 1949) as well as satellite campuses of Louisiana State University (opened as a two-year institution in 1967, and expanded into a four-year college in 1976), Southern University (opened in 1967 with a two-year associate's degree program). Longview, Texas, is home to LeTourneau University, a private, four-year Christian university founded by R.G. LeTourneau in 1946, originally as LeTourneau Technical Institute. Inclusively, Tyler, Texas is also home to satellite higher education campuses through the University of Texas System by way of the University of Texas at Tyler (opened in 1971 as Tyler State College) and the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler (opened in 1947 as the East Texas Tuberculosis Sanitarium and chartered into The University of Texas System in 1977 by the system's Board of Regents) as well as one of two independent institutions, Tyler Junior College (opened in 1926).

The Texarkana metropolitan area is home to Texas A&M University–Texarkana, a four-year satellite branch of the Texas A&M University System (founded as an upper-level extension college of East Texas State University in 1971), and Texarkana College (a public community college formed in 1927 as a branch of the Texarkana Independent School District and separated into an independent institution via a public vote in 1941). Arkadelphia is home to two liberal arts institutions: Henderson State University (founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College), which is the only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges based in Arkansas and announced plans to join the Arkansas State University System in October 2019,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Ouachita Baptist University, a private, Baptist college affiliated with the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (opened in 1886).

The area also houses several historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). The largest of these, Grambling State University, located in the namesake Lincoln Parish town of Grambling (Template:Convert west of the Louisiana Tech University campus), was founded in 1901 as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School. The university was created out of the desire of African-American farmers in rural areas of northern Louisiana to educate other black residents in that section of the state; it moved to its present location in 1905 (as the North Louisiana Agricultural and Industrial School) and became a state junior college (renamed the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute) by 1928, when it began offering two-year professional certificates and diplomas to graduates. Grambling received accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 1949. Other HBCUs in the region include Texas College in Tyler (opened in 1894), Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins (a Christian-based HBCU founded in 1912), and Wiley College in Marshall (a private liberal arts college founded in 1873 by Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, which is one of the oldest predominantly black colleges west of the Mississippi River).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Media

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Newspapers

TV

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Shreveport/Texarkana (Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas)

  • KTAL-TV (channel 6) – Texarkana/Shreveport/Marshall (NBC affiliate)
  • KMSS-TV (channel 33) – Shreveport/Texarkana (Fox affiliate)
  • KSHV-TV (channel 45) – Shreveport/Texarkana (MyNetworkTV affiliate)
  • KPXJ (channel 21) – Minden/Shreveport/Texarkana (CW affiliate)
  • KSLA (channel 12) – Shreveport/Texarkana/Bossier City/Marshall/Natchitoches (CBS affiliate)
  • KTBS-TV (channel 3) – Shreveport/Texarkana (ABC affiliate)
  • KLTS (channel 24) – Shreveport (PBS member station; Louisiana Public Broadcasting satellite)
  • KETG (channel 9) – Arkadelphia (PBS member station; Arkansas PBS satellite)

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El Dorado/Monroe (South Central Arkansas and North Central Louisiana)

Tyler/Lufkin (East Texas)

  • KLTV (channel 7) – Tyler/Longview (ABC affiliate)
  • KYTX (channel 19) – Nacogdoches/Lufkin/Tyler/Longview/Jacksonville (CBS affiliate)
  • KFXK (channel 51) – Longview/Tyler (Fox affiliate)
  • KCEB (channel 54) – Longview/Tyler (beIN Sports Xtra Español affiliate)
  • KETK-TV (channel 56) – Jacksonville/Tyler/Longview (NBC affiliate)
  • KTRE (channel 9) – Lufkin/Nacogdoches (ABC affiliate; semi-satellite of KLTV)

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Radio

AM stations

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Arkansas
  • KVRC (1240; "Fox Sports Arkansas") – Arkadelphia (Sports/Fox Sports Radio)
  • KDMS (1290) – El Dorado (Gospel)
  • KELD (1400; "The Fan") – El Dorado (Sports/Fox Sports Radio)
Louisiana
  • KEEL (710) / K2689GO (101.7 FM, repeater; "KEEL 101.7 FM & 710 AM") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Texarkana/Marshall/Natchitoches (News/talk)
  • KRRP (950; "Praise 950") – Coushatta/Natchitoches (Urban contemporary gospel)
  • KOKA (980) / K227CY (93.3, repeater; "KOKA 980 AM, 93.3 FM") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall (Urban contemporary gospel)
  • KBCL (1070; "Praise 1070") – Bossier City/Shreveport (Christian talk)
  • KWKH (1130; "1130 The Tiger") – Shreveport/Bossier City (Sports radio/Fox Sports Radio)
  • KASO (1240) – Minden/Shreveport/Bossier City (Classic hits)
  • KSYB (1300; "1300 AM KSYB") – Shreveport/Bossier City (Gospel)
  • KNCB (1320) / K281CY (104.1; "ESPN Shreveport") – Vivian/Shreveport/Bossier City (Sports)
  • KRMD (1340; "The Ticket") – Shreveport/Bossier City / K264AS (100.7 FM, repeater) – Mooringsport (Sports talk)
  • KNOC (1450) / K240EY (95.9, repeater; "95.9 Kix Country") – Natchitoches (Classic country)
  • KTKC (1460 AM; "Red de Radio Amistad") – Springhill (Spanish Christian)
  • KIOU (1480) – Shreveport/Bossier City (Christian radio)
  • KRUS (1490) / K242DA (96.3, repeater; "Hitz 96.3") – Ruston/Grambling (Urban contemporary)

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Texas
  • KTBB (600) – Tyler/Longview / KTBB-FM (97.5) – Troup (News/talk)
  • KCMC (740) / K300DW (107.9 FM, repeater; "107.9 The Fan") – Texarkana, TX (Sports/CBS Sports Radio)
  • KSFA (860; "News Talk 860") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (News/talk)
  • KTFS (940) / K290CP (105.9 FM, repeater) – Texarkana, TX (Gospel)
  • KSST (1230 AM) – Sulphur Springs (Oldies)
  • KDOK (1240; "All Hit Radio K-DOK") – Kilgore/Longview/Marshall (Classic Hits)
  • KZHN (1250; "1250 The Texan") – Paris (Classic country)
  • KSML (1260; "NBC Sports Radio 1260") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Sports/NBC Sports Radio)
  • KIVY (1290) – Crockett/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Adult standards)
  • KGLD (1330 AM; "The Light") – Tyler/Longview (Gospel)
  • KRBA (1340 AM) – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (News/talk/variety)
  • KHDY (1350; "K-Car") – Clarksville (Classic Country)
  • KFRO (1370) – Longview/Marshall (Talk)
  • KKTK (1400) / K246CR (97.1 FM, repeater; "Fox Sports 1400 AM") – Texarkana, TX (Sports/Fox Sports Radio)
  • KEES (1430) – Gladewater/Longview/Marshall (Black gospel)
  • KMHT (1450; "ESPN Radio 1450") – Marshall/Longview (Sports/ESPN Radio)
  • KWRD (1470) / K253CE (98.5; "1470 AM / 98.5 FM KWRD") – Henderson/Longview/Marshall (Country)
  • KPLT (1490; "Classic Country KPLT") – Paris (Classic country)
  • KYZS (1490) / K239CB (95.7, repeater; "ESPN East Texas 95.7") – Tyler (Sports/ESPN Radio)
Oklahoma
  • KBEL (1240; "Talk 1240") – Idabel (News/talk)

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FM stations

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Arkansas
  • KBSA (90.9; "Red River Radio") – El Dorado (NPR/Public Radio International)
  • KAGL (93.3; "The Eagle") – El Dorado (Classic rock)
  • KMJI (93.3; "Majic 93-3") – Ashdown/Texarkana, AR (Urban Contemporary)
  • KMRX (96.1; "Big 96.1") – El Dorado (Classic hits)
  • KMLK (98.7; "The Heart and Soul 98.7") – El Dorado (Urban Adult Contemporary)
  • KDEL-FM (100.9; "Fox Sports Arkansas") – Arkadelphia (Sports/Fox Sports Radio)
  • KIXB (103.3; "KIX 103") – El Dorado (Country)
  • KPGG (103.9) – Ashdown/Texarkana, AR / KHDY-FM (98.5 FM; "98.5 & 103.9 The Pig") – Clarksville (Classic country)
  • KTOY (104.7; "Jammin 104.7") – Texarkana, AR (Urban Adult Contemporary)
  • KYGL (106.3; "Eagle 106.3") – Texarkana, AR (Classic rock)
  • KTFS-FM (107.1; "News Talk 107.1 KTFS") – Texarkana, AR (News/talk)
Louisiana
  • KVSE (89.1; "Miracle 89.1") – Blanchard/Shreveport/Bossier City (Contemporary Christian)
  • KLPI (89.1) – Ruston (College-leading Alternative rock)
  • KBIO (89.7; "Radio Maria") – Natchitoches (Christian radio)
  • KDAQ (89.9; "Red River Radio") – Shreveport (NPR/Public Radio International)
  • KNWD (91.7; "The Demon") – Natchitoches (College-leading Alternative rock)
  • KVCL-FM (92.1) - Winnfield (Country)
  • KJVC (92.7) – Mansfield (Classic Country)
  • KXKS-FM (93.7; "Kiss Country") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Minden/Marshall (Country)
  • KRUF (94.5; "K94.5") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Top 40 CHR)
  • KSBH-HD1 (94.9; "94.9 The River") – Coushatta/Natchitoches (Country)
    • Relays HD2 / K222AO (92.3 FM, repeater; "92.3 The Fox") (Classic hits)
  • KLKL (95.7; "The River 95.7") – Minden/Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall (Classic hits)
  • KVKI-FM (96.5) – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Adult contemporary)
  • KQHN (97.3; "Q 97.3") – Waskom/Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Hot Adult Contemporary)
  • KDBH-FM (97.5; "Country Legends 97.5") – Natchitoches/Coushatta (Classic Country)
  • KTAL-FM (98.1; "98 Rocks") – Texarkana/Shreveport/Bossier City (Classic Rock)
  • KPCH (99.3; "The Peach 99.3") – Ruston/Grambling (Classic hits)
  • KMJJ-FM (99.7) – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Urban Contemporary)
  • KZBL (100.7) – Natchitoches (Oldies)
  • KBNF-LP (101.3) – Ruston/Grambling (High school-leading '80s Classic hits)
  • KDKS-FM (102.1; "KDKS Hot 102 Jams") – Blanchard/Shreveport/Bossier City (Urban adult contemporary)
  • KVMA-FM (102.9; "Magic 102.9") – Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall/Minden (Soul/R&B Oldies-leaning Urban Adult Contemporary)
  • KBTT (103.7; "Tha Beat") - Haughton/Shreveport/Bossier City (Mainstream Urban)
  • KNCB-FM (105.3; "Hot Country 105.3") – Vivian (Country)
  • KWLV (107.1) - Many/Natchitoches/Mansfield (Country)
  • KXKZ (107.5; "Z107.5") – Ruston/Grambling/Natchitoches/Winnfield (Country)

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Texas
  • KLDN (88.9; "Red River Radio") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (NPR/Public Radio International)
  • KVNE (89.5) / KGLY (91.3; "Encouragement FM") – Tyler/Longview (Contemporary Christian)
  • KAXM (90.1; "Your East Texas Alternative") – Nacodgdoches/Lufkin (College radio)
  • KSWP (90.9) – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Contemporary Christian)
  • KBWC (91.1) – Marshall/Longview (College-leading Urban contemporary)
  • KTXK (91.5) – Texarkana, TX (NPR)
  • KAVX (91.9) – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Christian talk)
  • KRWR (92.1; "92.1 The Team FM") – Tyler/Longview (Sports/Fox Sports Radio)
  • KDPM (92.3) – Marshall/Longview (silent)
  • KXXE (92.5) – San Augustine/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Country)
  • KTYL-FM (93.1; "Mix 93.1") – Tyler/Longview (Hot Adult Contemporary)
  • KOYN (93.9) – Paris (Country)
  • KTRG (94.1; "ESPN Texarkana") – Hooks/Texarkana, TX (Sports)
  • KVLL (94.7; "My 94.7") – Wells/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Adult contemporary)
  • KEWL (95.1; "The Rewind on 95.1") – New Boston/Texarkana, TX (Classic hits)
  • KAFX-FM (95.5; "KFOX 95.5") – Diboll/Lufkin (Top 40 CHR)
  • KITX (95.5; "K 95.5") – Paris (Country)
  • KPWW (95.9; "Power 95-9") – Hooks/Texarkana, TX (Top 40 CHR)
  • KSCH (95.9 FM) – Sulphur Springs / KSCN (96.9 FM, repeater) – Pittsburg (Country)
  • KKTX-FM (96.1; "Classic Rock 96.1") – Kilgore/Tyler/Longview/Marshall (Classic rock)
  • KOYE (96.7; "La Invasora 96.7") – Frankston/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Regional Mexican)
  • KLVH (97.1; "K-Love") – Cleveland/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Contemporary Christian)
  • KGFZ (97.7; "Z-97.7") – Burke/Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Urban contemporary)
  • KALK (97.7 FM; "K-Lake 97.7") – Winfield/Paris (Classic hits)
  • KLOW (98.9 FM; "Trumpet Radio 98.9") – Reno/Paris (Contemporary Christian)
  • KTUX (98.9; "Highway 98.9") – Carthage/Shreveport/Bossier City/Marshall (Classic Rock)
  • KAPW (99.3; "Mega 99.3") – White Oak/Longview/Marshall (Regional Mexican)
  • KNRB (100.1) – Atlanta (Contemporary Christian)
  • KRMD-FM (101.1) – Oil City/Shreveport/Bossier City (Country)
  • KYBI (100.1; "Y100") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Country)
  • KTYK (100.7; "Red River Radio") – Overton/Tyler/Longview (NPR/Public Radio International)
  • KNUE (101.5) – Tyler (Spanish Christian)
  • KBYB (101.7) – Hope / K257FY (99.3, repeater; "101.7 Hot FM") – Texarkana, TX (Country)
  • KBUS (101.9; "101.9 The Bus") – Paris (Classic rock)
  • KSML-FM (101.9; "Super Mix 101.9") – Huntington/Lufkin (Regional Mexican)
  • KLFZ (102.3; "Fun Radio") – Jacksonville/Tyler/Longview (Top 40)
  • KKYR-FM (102.5; "Kicker 102.5") – Texarkana, TX (Country)
  • KBLZ (102.7; "The Blaze") – Winona/Tyler (Urban Contemporary)
  • KJCS (103.3; "103 The Bull") – Nacodgdoches/Lufkin (Classic country)

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  • KZRB (103.5) – New Boston/Texarkana, TX (Urban Contemporary)
  • KMHT-FM (103.9; "103.9 Classic Country") – Marshall/Longview (Classic country)
  • KKUS (104.1; "The Ranch") – Tyler/Longview (Classic country)
  • KFYN-FM (104.3; "The River") – Detroit (Traditional/Red Dirt Country)
  • KYKS (105.1; "Kicks 105") – Lufkin/Nacodgdoches (Country)
  • KYKX (105.7) – Longview/Tyler (Country)
  • KOOI (106.5; "Jack 106.5") – Jacksonville/Tyler/Longview (Variety hits)
  • KISX (107.3; "Hot1073Jamz") – Whitehouse/Tyler (Urban Adult Contemporary)
  • KPLT-FM (107.7 FM; "Mix 107.7") – Paris (Mainstream Top 40)
  • KTBQ (107.7; "Q107") – Nacodgdoches/Lufkin (Classic rock)
Oklahoma

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Transportation

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Airports

Shreveport Regional Airport (IATA: SHV; ICAO: KSHV), located off Hollywood Avenue in southwestern Shreveport, is the region's primary commercial airport. Established in 1952, Shreveport Regional is served by Allegiant Air (with flights to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and Orlando Sanford International Airport), American Airlines (to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport), Delta Air Lines (to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport), GLO Airlines (to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport), and United Airlines (as United Express, to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and Denver International Airport). Shreveport Downtown Airport (IATA: DTN; ICAO: KDTN), built in 1931 and located north of downtown Shreveport along the Red River, is the city's general aviation airport and also serves as a reliever airport for Shreveport Regional Airport, itself built to replace the Downtown Airport as Shreveport's main commercial airport due to the limited growth that could be made to that facility due to its close proximity of the Red River.

General and limited commercial aviation is additionally available at several smaller airfields in the Ark-La-Tex; Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (IATA: TYR; ICAO: KTYR), a city-owned public use airport in Tyler; offers service to and from Dallas/Fort Worth International and, on a seasonal basis, Denver International, respectively, via American Eagle and Frontier Airlines. East Texas Regional Airport (IATA: GGG; ICAO: KGGG), located Template:Convert south of Longview, is used for general aviation and military training but also provides connector service to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport via American Airlines and American Eagle. Texarkana Regional Airport (IATA: TXK; ICAO: KTXK), a city-owned public use facility located Template:Convert northeast of Texarkana, Arkansas's central business district, mainly provides general aviation travel but is also served by American Eagle. Exclusively general aviation service is provided by Angelina County Airport (IATA: LFK; ICAO: KLFK), located Template:Convert southwest of downtown Lufkin; A.L. Mangham Jr. Regional Airport (IATA: OCH; ICAO: KOCH), located Template:Convert outside Loop 224 northwest of TX State Highway 7; and Natchitoches Regional Airport (ICAO: KIER), located Template:Convert south of downtown Natchitoches.

Major highways

The Ark-La-Tex is an integral point on the United States Interstate Network, with three major interstate highways—Interstate 20, Interstate 30, and Interstate 49—servicing the region, connecting five of the region's largest cities, Tyler, Longview, Marshall, Shreveport and Bossier City. Interstates 20 and 49—the latter of which has its northern terminus at the intersection of the former of the two Interstates—bisect Shreveport, intersecting with I-220 and LA Highway 3132 (which both serve as bypass routes connecting the northern and southern parts of Shreveport) on the city's west side, with U.S. 171 in downtown Shreveport, and with I-220 in central Bossier Parish (north of Barksdale Air Force Base, at which point it begins sharing an overlap with U.S. 71 as it traverses eastward towards Monroe).

The region is a point within the planned extension of the otherwise presently disjointed Interstate 69. A branch of the Interstate (I-369) presently runs north on U.S. 59 within Texas from Tenaha to Texarkana, where the span will eventually connect to Interstates 30 and 49. In response to widespread opposition from environmental groups and property rights activists, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced in June 2008 that it would complete I-69 through upgrades to the existing spans of U.S. 59, U.S. 77 and U.S. 281 to Interstate standards through rural areas, with bypasses around urban centers along the route, which will be financed through private sector investment. An approximately Template:Convert portion of the I-69 extension to extend from south of Clarksdale, Mississippi, to the Louisiana/Texas state line will be built as a new-terrain route that parallels existing U.S. and state highways in some areas. One of the current segments, SIU 16, covers areas of East Texas to the northeast of Nacogdoches, extending until it terminates at U.S. 171 near Stonewall. Another segment, SIU 15, continues over the southern and eastern sections of Shreveport, crossing I-49 and ending at I-20 near Haughton.<ref name=SIU-15>Template:Cite web</ref> The third existing segment, SIU 14, extends northeast from I-20 to US 82 near El Dorado, Arkansas.<ref name=SIU-14>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Interstates

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River transportation

River transportation is available through two inland multi-modal transportation and distribution centers along the Red River: the Template:Convert Port of Caddo-Bossier, located at the head of navigation on the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway (Template:Convert south of Shreveport on LA Highway 1), and the Template:Convert Natchitoches Parish Port, located on Louisiana Highways 6 and 486 (U.S. 71/U.S. 84) in Campti, Louisiana on the only slack water port on the Red River. The Port of Caddo-Bossier began loading its first cargo in 1995, and has (Template:As of) received more than nine million tons of barge freight and over eight million tons of rail freight. The port—which houses more than 17 freight and shipping companies—links the Ark-La-Tex to domestic and international markets via the Mississippi River, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Bossier City hosts three riverboat casino gambling resorts along the east bank of the Red River: Margaritaville Resort Casino, Horseshoe Bossier City, and Boomtown Bossier City.

Notable people

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