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The University of Arkansas is located in Fayetteville, a city of nearly 60,000 residents. Fayetteville is at the southern tip of a metroplex that runs northward for 25 miles along I-540 through Washington and Benton counties in Northwest Arkansas and ends in Bella Vista, an upscale retirement community near the state's northern border.
The Northwest Arkansas metroplex, from Fayetteville northward, also includes Springdale (home of Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat producer), Lowell (home of J.B. Hunt Trucking), and Rogers and Bentonville (home of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest corporation).
The two Northwest Arkansas counties (Washington and Benton) that contain this metroplex are growing rapidly, due to a booming regional economy. The Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metropolitan area is ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau as being the sixth fastest-growing metro area in the nation. From 1990 to 2000, the metropolitan area grew 47.5 percent, from 210,908 to 311,121.
Situated on the Ozark Mountain Plateau, Northwest Arkansas offers friendly people, beautiful scenery, a moderate climate, excellent school districts, and a robust economy in which the unemployment rate runs well below national averages. Fayetteville itself presents the vibrant cultural life that would be expected in any major university town. Since the 1960's, the area has been a haven for writers, artists, poets and musicians.
Northwest Arkansas was ranked as 23rd among the top 269 metro areas considered as the “best places for business and career.” The rankings were based on job growth, salary growth, plus high-tech growth.
-2003, Forbes Magazine
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