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Hot Springs Statistics

Total Area	33 sq miles
Elevation	597 ft

Population	(2007)
Total	39,064
Density	1,083.3/sq. mile

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Hot Springs

We at The Real Estate Company welcome your interest in Hot Springs. We feel we have found a little piece of paradise here in our historic city. If you are interested in a vacation home or a permanent move, you will find Hot Springs to be one of the most beautiful and enchanting areas of the country. With our relaxed life-style, beautiful location, mountains, lakes, superior retirement communities, excellent schools, exceptional medical facilities and affordable cost of living, it is hard to beat Hot Springs as a family home or retirement location.

Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas is the only American city nestled within a national park. The United States government recognized its uniqueness and gave it protected status in 1832 as the first Federal Reservation. It became a National Park in 1921, and the City of Hot Springs was officially incorporated in 1876.

Hot Springs’ legacy springs from the thermal waters that are its namesake. There are 47 hot springs which, for thousands of years, have issued forth from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain at a temperature of 143 degrees Fahrenheit and a rate of nearly a million gallons a day. The waters, having traveled through many layers of filtering rock on their way to the earth’s surface, have been found to be nearly 100% pure.

World-famous Bathhouse Row consist of eight architecturally unique, turn-of-the-century bathhouses in the heart of the downtown historic and arts district. It is supervised by the National Park Service. The Fordyce, currently operates as a beautifully restored museum where visitors can learn more about the colorful history which shapes Hot Springs to this day. The Buckstaff still operates as a traditional bathhouse. Movement is underway to restore the Ozark bathhouse to serve our community as the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

Public Schools

Lake Hamilton Schools K-12 Enrollment: 3922 Class:6A	Lake Hamilton was named the Number 1 Academic Public School of 244 districts in the entire state of Arkansas in 2008. For the 2008-09 year, Lake Hamilton aquired state championships in Football, Girls Softball, and Girls Basketball.

Hot Springs School District 501.624.3372 K-12 Enrollment: 3724 Class:5A	Hot Springs High School became an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) School since 2004. Students can participate in the Middle Years Program and the Diploma Program. Special Courses in IB include Spanish, French, Chinese, digital imagery, graphic design, business, and others.

Lakeside School District 501.262.1880 K-12 Enrollment: 2942 Class:5A	Founded in 1928, the Lakeside Rams school district surrounds Lakes Hamilton & Catherine. For three of the last five years, Lakeside has been one of the top ten school districts in the state and is ranked first academically among all 5A school districts in the state.

Fountain Lake Schools 501.623.5655 K-12 Enrollment: 1220 Class:3A	Fountain Lake Schools give students an environment of a small town school with big amenities. Along with the new state-of-art facilities and computer labs, Fountain Lake has a great athletic program.

Cutter-Morning Star 501.262.2414 K-12 Enrollment: 699 Class:3A	Cutter-Morning Star is a smaller school in Hot Springs that was created in 1922 with the consolidation of three other schools. There is a teacher for every 13 students, making the education experience personal.

Higher Education

National Park
Community College
501.760.4222
Enrollment: 2000+

The fourth largest community college in the state, National Park Community College averages approximately 3,000 credit students per semester enrolled in college courses blending liberal arts with occupational education to prepare students to enter the workforce or transfer to a four-year institution.

Hospitals

National Park Medical Center 501.321.1000 1910 Malvern Ave.	As a 166-bed full-service hospital, NPMC provide a comprehensive range of medical services and high quality care. We are a forward thinking, innovative hospital where trust, teamwork and technology come together to make a positive difference in the health of our community and region.

St. Josephs Regional Health Center 501.622.1000 300 Werner St.	St. Joseph's is a not-for-profit, faith-based health facility with 18 medical clinics in Hot Springs and surrounding communities. St. Joseph's has served the healthcare needs of Hot Springs and its surrounding communities since 1888.

Entertainment

Historic Downtown Hot Springs Central Ave.	Downtown boasts beautifully restored national landmarks in the Arkansas historic sites in the downtown historic district, Hot Springs National Park, Victorian architecture, historic hotels, thermal spas and, as the boyhood home of Bill Clinton, historic presidential sites.

Oaklawn Park 501.623.4411 800-OAKLAWN 2705 Central Ave.	The Thoroughbreds of Oaklawn Park offer some of the most heart-stopping excitement you'll find in The Natural State. See the nation's top names battle it out at one of the nation's finest tracks from late-January to mid-April. And it's all located in the middle of historic and beautiful Hot Springs National Park. We also offer a complete simulcast season of coast-to-coast tracks, so you'll find plenty to do no matter what time of year you're here. The simulcast season will run mid-April through mid-January; Wednesday through Sunday.

Garvan Woodland Gardens 501.262.9300 800.366.4664 550 Arkridge Rd.	Garvan Woodland Gardens, Arkansas' premier botanical garden is located on 210-acre peninsula on Lake Hamilton. The Garden features a Welcome Center, Outer Space Gift Shop, a four-acre Asian rock and stream garden (The Garden of the Pine Wind), the Full Moon Bridge, Verna C. Garvan Pavilion designed by E. Fay Jones and Maurice Jennings, 20-foot tall Canopy Bridge, waterfalls, springs, cascading streams, Japanese Maple Hill, Border of Old Roses, ADA accessible paved trails and hundreds of thousands of plantings.

Hot Springs - More Information

hotsprings.org is the official website of Hot Springs, AR. Their website is constantly updated with information about upcoming events in the area as well as information about the area in general. If you need any more information about Hot Springs feel free to contact us!