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West Memphis, city, Crittenden County, eastern Arkansas, on the Mississippi River, west of Memphis, Tennessee (hence its name); incorporated in 1927. It is a distribution and manufacturing center. It was founded about 1910 as the logging camp of Bragg's Spur and was renamed West Memphis in 1929. Population 28,138 (1980); 28,259 (1990); 27,666 (2000); 28,092 (2006).

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