Scott

History

More than 1,000 years ago, a complex formation of mounds was created near what is now called Mound Pond by what is today known as the Plum Bayou culture, a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that lived in what is now east-central Arkansas from 650–1050 CE, a time known as the Late Woodland Period. Archaeologists defined the culture based on the Toltec Mounds site The site was farmed in the nineteenth century but was later preserved as Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park. The Arkansas River not only created distinctive oxbow lakes, but it also provided rich farmland that was attractive to the first white settlers in Arkansas Territory. Peter L. Lefevre and family were among the very first French settlers, locating in the fall of 1818 on the north side of the river on Spanish Grant No. 497, about six miles below Little Rock. Chester Ashley was one of the first investors to acquire land in the area for plantation purposes in the early 1800s. Conoway Scott Sr., for whom the community is named, arrived in the 1830s. Thomas Steele began his plantation in the area in 1850. The Marmaduke–Walker duel occurred in the area on September 6, 1863, on the Lefevre Plantation, just east of the Lefevre House. The duel was fought between John S. Marmaduke and Lucius M. Walker, two generals in the Confederate States Army. Tension had risen between the two officers during the Battle of Helena on July 4, 1863, when Marmaduke accused Walker of not supporting his force, and then retaliated by not informing Walker of a Confederate retreat. Marmaduke was later assigned to serve under Walker during a Union advance against Little Rock. Walker did not support Marmaduke during a retreat after the Battle of Brownsville, and Marmaduke questioned Walker's courage after the Battle of Bayou…

Geography

Scott is located in western Lonoke County and eastern Pulaski County and is bordered to the west by the city of North Little Rock. U.S. Route 165 passes through the community, leading northwest approximately to Interstate 440 and southeast to Keo. Downtown Little Rock is west of Scott. Downtown North Little Rock, Arkansas is west. Interstate 40 in Arkansas is north at Galloway, Arkansas. Arkansas Highway 161 runs concurrently with the Lonoke-Pulaski county line in the community, progressing northward to U.S. Route 70 and southeast to England, by way of farming areas in southeast Pulaski County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Scott CDP has a total area of , of which are land and (4.52%) are water. The CDP's portion in Pulaski County is bisected by Horseshoe Lake, an oxbow lake that was once a channel of the Arkansas River.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,080
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  3,510
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,440
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,291
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,795
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  2,622
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  2,482
• White-throated Sparrow

  Zonotrichia albicollis (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  2,312

Most recent

• M 2.88 — 2025-01-03
  11 km E of Pangburn, Arkansas
• M 2.93 — 2021-11-18
  3 km SW of Prattsville, Arkansas
• M 2.78 — 2021-01-23
  4 km NNW of Greenbrier, Arkansas
• M 2.57 — 2017-01-12
  9 km E of Leola, Arkansas
• M 2.62 — 2015-11-06
  7 km NNW of Searcy, Arkansas
• M 2.53 — 2015-09-12
  6 km WNW of Twin Groves, Arkansas