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2,646,133 (in 2022) [2] Website. Hot Springs National Park. Hot Springs National Park is an American national park in central Garland County, Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Hot Springs, the county seat. Hot Springs Reservation was initially created by an act of the United States Congress on April 20, 1832, to be preserved for future recreation.
- 5,550 acres (22.5 km²)
- Garland County, Arkansas, United States
- April 20, 1832 (designated as a national park on March 4, 1921)
- Hot Springs
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circulation through faults to hot rock deep in the Earth's crust . Hot spring water often contains large ...
Hot Springs is a 2000 thriller novel by Stephen Hunter. It is about gangsters and gambling in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is the first novel in the series featuring Hunter's character Earl Swagger. It is summer 1946 and Earl Swagger, former Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor, feels he is an angry man with nowhere to go in the post-war ...
- Stephen Hunter
- United States
- 2000
- English
A Brief History of Hot Springs National Park. The area now known as "Hot Springs National Park" first became United States territory in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The first permanent settlers to reach the Hot Springs area in 1807 were quick to realize the springs' potential as a health resort. By the 1830s, log cabins and a store ...
Hot Springs, in the heart of Arkansas, is home to Hot Springs National Park, the oldest park in the National Park System, and Bathhouse Row, a collection of historic bathhouses from the Grand ...
Hot Springs is a resort city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The city is located in the Ouachita Mountains among the U.S. Interior Highlands, and is set among several natural hot springs for which the city is named. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a population of 37,930, making it the 11th most populous city in Arkansas.
Jul 11, 2023 · People of "Ral City" on Hot Springs Mountain, 1878. National Park Service image from HOSP archives. Humans have been coming to this area for thousands of years to quarry the Novaculite stone found on the hilltops and to partake of the hot and cold spring water flowing from the ground. Europeans first came to stay beginning in the early 1800s ...
