Tuckerman, Arkansas

Tuckerman is in Jackson County, in central Northeast Arkansas, in level farm land east of the Black River.

Tuckerman’s 2010 population was 1,862, an increase of 105 from the 2000 census. The town’s highest population was in 1980, when 2,078 people lived there. About 90 percent of the population is white, with 9 percent counted as “Black or African-American.” Median income in 2000 was $27,000. About 89% of families and 86% of the total population lived above the poverty line.

Baseball coach and manager Bobby Winkles and basketball player Jim Barnes were born in Tuckerman.

“Tuckerman was named for a railroad executive who seems to have made no other notable contributions to the railway industry or the history of Arkansas.”

So there.

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