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Baby birds in large nest

Wood slat sign painted red with yellow lettering on grass

Baker Prairie Natural Area

bald eagle perched on bare branch

Metal buildings partially submerged by flood waters

Bald Knob Flood

Tug boat in the center of river pushing a barge

part of a bridge extending into a river with flooded city in background

Baring Cross Bridge; 1927

African-American man in long sleeve shirt and hat playing an accordion

"Sunpie" Barnes

Flooded street with small house and telephone poles

Batesville 1915 Flood

Several industrial wooden buildings with smokestacks

Crowd of men posing with two tractors in a field

White men with mining tools carts and machinery working in open pit bauxite mine

"Baxter County" map showing borders roads highways waterways national forest

Baxter County Map

Tree trunks emerging from water

Wood slat sign painted red with yellow lettering in forest

Bear Hollow Natural Area

White man operating a wood planing machine

Bearden Plant Planer Mill

Rippling water in creek with autumn trees on both sides

Black Fork Creek

two beaver lodges amid cypress trees in lake in front of pine covered hillside

Beaver Lodges at Columbia Lake

Rooms built into side of a cave with balcony and rock walls

Beckham Creek Cave

Suited

Flooded swamp with trees with sunshine and shadows

Walking path with railing and trees in sunshine and shadows

Bell Slough Trail

Wood slat sign painted red with yellow lettering in flooded swamp

Benson Creek Natural Area

"Benton County" showing borders roads cities waterways national forest

Benton County Map

Older white man and son in swimming shorts standing on shore with boat on river

Thomas Hart Benton and Son

Line of white men on tractors in orchard

Bert Johnson Orchards

Wooden church building with two front doors missing roof

Bethesda Tornado

Rippling water in large creek with sandbar in the background

Big Cedar Creek

White men in suits and hats using a hollowed out log to reroute natural spring

Big Chalybeate Spring

Moss covered stone outcropping in forested area over water

Big Creek Natural Area

Rushing water rapids in creek with bald trees in background

Big Fork Creek Natural Area

"Big lake district hunters' paradise" newspaper clipping

Big Lake Article

small waterfall in middle of dense green forest

Big Piney Creek Waterfall

two white men in hats, one standing and another sitting along the edge of a river with large hill in background

Rocky hillside covered in trees at its base with dirt road and car

Tree covered countryside with river and rock quarry in the distance

Big Rock Quarry

Small home with steeply angled roof surrounded by water

Large field with plants

Biggs Onion Farm

White man in hat and overalls with spraying the ground with two hoses with a man and woman in the background

Black Gumbo Sluicing

Map of Arkansas with colored sections with percentage of black population change listed in each labeled county

Black Population Change 2020

River with ferry approaching ramp carrying car and van field trees road in background

Black River Ferry

Water rushing out of mountain cave with green moss growing on rock walls

Blanchard Springs Discharge

Buildings in state of near collapse with fallen trees in foreground

Blevins Tornado, 1921

Concrete arch straddling highway and saying "Entering Arkansas"

"Boone County" map showing borders roads cities waterways

Boone County Map

View looking over tree covered countryside with farmland and mountains in the background

Boston Mountains

Clouds hovering above tree covered mountains with gray skies

Boston Mountains

"Bradley County" map showing borders roads cities waterways national wildlife refuge

Bradley County Map

Ripe red tomato on green vines with leaves in pot

Bradley Pink Tomato

Long multistory building adjacent to railroad track

Brandy Distillery

Lake with rock wall and trees

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