Texarkana metropolitan statistical area is a two-county region anchored by the twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and Texarkana, Arkansas, and encompassing the surrounding communities in Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas.
Texarkana was founded in 1873 on the junction of two railroads. The name is a portmanteau of Texas, Arkansas, and nearby Louisiana.
State Line Avenue follows the Texas-Arkansas state line throughout much of Texarkana. The two “sides” of Texarkana are separate only from a political standpoint. Thousands of locals actually live in one state and work in the other.
Owing to its divided political nature, Texarkana has two mayors and two sets of city officials; however, the two sides share a federal building, courthouse, jail, post office, labor office, chamber of commerce, water utility, and several other offices.
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