Centerton

History

Native American hunters and early settlers were drawn to present-day Centerton by natural springs, including what is now known as McKissick Spring. In the Antebellum South era, an early church and school built along the spring were named Center Point, for the community's central location in Benton County. Though the area did not see any formal action during the Civil War, Union troops camped at McKissick Spring on March 5, 1862, shortly before the Battle of Pea Ridge. After the Reconstruction era, the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad Company connected Rogers, Arkansas and Grove, Oklahoma through western Benton County. The railroad opened the apple and strawberry orchards of the county to new markets, bringing economic prosperity, development, and population growth to the region. Upon laying out the town in 1900, the name was changed to Centerton, as Center Point was already registered in Howard County.

Geography

Centerton is located near the center of Benton County and Arkansas Highway 102 runs through the center of the city and leads east to Bentonville and west to Decatur. The city has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.13%, is water. The Northwest Arkansas region consists of three Arkansas counties: Benton, Madison, and Washington. The area had a population of 347,045 at the 2000 census which had increased to 463,204 by the 2010 Census (an increase of 33.47 percent). The region does not consist of the usual principal-city-with-suburbs morphology; though today Centerton is largely a suburb of Bentonville. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport is located south of Centerton and is used to connect all of the Northwest Arkansas region to the rest of the nation. For more than the last decade, Northwest Arkansas has been one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• BENTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
  High · BENTONVILLE · 3,322 students · 12.9:1 ratio
• ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS ACADEMY HIGH
  Other · BENTONVILLE · 3,231 students · 42:1 ratio
• BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOL
  High · CENTERTON · 2,418 students · 12.7:1 ratio
• ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL
  High · ROGERS · 2,284 students · 18:1 ratio
• ROGERS HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL
  High · ROGERS · 2,080 students · 11.7:1 ratio
• ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · ROGERS · 1,007 students · 15.3:1 ratio
• GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  Middle · Centerton · 887 students · 16.4:1 ratio
• OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · ROGERS · 850 students · 14.7:1 ratio