Where to Stay in Jonesboro, Arkansas

What is Jonesboro known for?

Its campus gives Jonesboro a student calendar and a cultural weight the surrounding Delta farm country does not otherwise carry, and Tomlinson Stadium-Kell Field takes the crowds that come with it. Crowley's Ridge does the rest. The city stands on that raised ground rather than on the Delta plain below, which is the single fact that most separates Jonesboro from its neighbours in Craighead County.

What are the main landmarks in Jonesboro?

Houses make up the register here. The Berger-Graham House, the Berger House, the Bell House, the Frierson House and the Nash-Reid-Hill House each preserve a family name from the city's building years, and the Victor Cicero Kays House adds one more to the roll. Sport supplies the exception.

Tomlinson Stadium-Kell Field is the single entry on the list that is not a dwelling, and it is where Jonesboro gathers in numbers no house could hold.

What is the history of Jonesboro?

Crowley's Ridge decided where the city went. Settlement in this part of Arkansas followed the raised ground, since the ridge stands above the Delta that surrounds it, and Jonesboro grew there as a market and an administrative centre rather than as a farming village. The county came with it.

Craighead County made the town one of its two seats, which fixed courts and records here and gave the place a role beyond agriculture from early on. Families left their houses behind. The Berger-Graham House, the Berger House, the Bell House and the Frierson House survive from the decades when the leading households were putting up the addresses now on the register, and the Nash-Reid-Hill House carries three surnames at once.

Then the university arrived. Arkansas State University turned an agricultural county seat into the cultural and economic centre of its region, and the Victor Cicero Kays House belongs to that chapter of the record. Tomlinson Stadium-Kell Field followed the campus.

Its crowds are the largest gathering Jonesboro assembles, and the fixture list now shapes the city's calendar as much as anything else does.

Where is Jonesboro?

Jonesboro spreads over more than two hundred square kilometres. The city sits on Crowley's Ridge, the band of higher ground that interrupts the Delta plain of Arkansas, and that footing sets it apart from every neighbouring town out on the flat. Craighead County surrounds it.

Paragould lies within easy reach, near enough that the two cities are counted together in one wider statistical region.

What is the climate of Jonesboro?

The Delta summer is the hard season. Heat and humidity settle over Craighead County from June and hold through August, and the shade on Crowley's Ridge is about the only relief the city's own ground provides. Winter passes quickly.

Cold spells arrive without lasting, spring turns wet across the plain, and autumn is the steadiest stretch for anyone meaning to walk the older streets of Jonesboro.

How do you get to Jonesboro?

Roads bring nearly everyone. Jonesboro is reached overland across the Delta or along Crowley's Ridge, and the run in from Paragould or from elsewhere in Craighead County is the usual approach for a visitor. The campus is the first landmark.

Arkansas State University and Tomlinson Stadium-Kell Field stand together, and most arrivals orient themselves from that pair before finding anything else in a city this spread out.