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East Camden, Arkansas



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Temperature: 44.5 °F

Humidity: 77 %
Wind Speed: 0 mph S
Pressure: 30.06 "

Dew Point: 38 °F
Gusts: 14 mph ESE
Rain Today: 0.19 "





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  • City Description

    East Camden is a town in Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 902 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Camden Micropolitan Statistical Area. East Camden was originally called Billkitts Rental Housing and began as a planned community created to support the nearby Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot. As he did for the rest of the facility, the depot's Chief Maintenance Engineer, A.T. Smith, designed the general layout of the town and named its streets. U.S. Senator John Little McClellan later arranged for Smith, who boasted the most intimate knowledge of the depot, to travel to Washington D.C. and negotiate "over White House tea" with Lyndon B. Johnson to transfer ownership of the sprawling NAD complex to Johnson's Brown and Root. Brown and Root's Highland Resources would later transform the depot into an industrial park catering primarily to defense contractors who could be enticed by the local eight-mile long rocket range, the vast array of underground storage bunkers, highly specialized building infrastructure, low cost of labor and excellent railroad system. As part of the transfer agreement, the Brown Foundation also donated seventy acres of land and six

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    City Contained By:

    • United States
    • Ouachita County
    • Arkansas

    Timezones:

    • Central Time zone

    Size:

    • 1.5539928662 km squared

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