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West Memphis is the most populous city in Crittenden County, Arkansas, sitting on the west bank of the Mississippi River directly across from Memphis, Tennessee, as part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

The original site of West Memphis came from Spanish land grants issued during the 1790s to members of the Fooy family in the Hopefield area and to William McKenney near present-day West Memphis.

West Memphis was founded in 1916 and incorporated on May 7, 1927.

The 2020 census counted 24,520 residents in West Memphis, ranking it as the 20th largest city in Arkansas, down from 26,245 in 2010.

West Memphis sits where Interstates 40 and 55 meet at the Mississippi River, a position that has made it known in the trucking industry as a crossroads of America and one of the largest trucking centers in the nation.

The six-lane Hernando de Soto Bridge, whose twin arches form a giant letter M, carries Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between West Memphis and Memphis and opened in the early 1970s.

Big River Crossing, opened on October 22, 2016, converted the historic Harahan Bridge into the longest pedestrian bridge across the Mississippi River and the nation's largest active rail, bicycle, and pedestrian bridge.

Southland Casino Racing on North Ingram Boulevard has operated at the same location since 1956, continuing a legal greyhound racing tradition in Crittenden County that began in 1935.

In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, West Memphis's 8th Street nightlife district was called Beale Street West, and blues greats including Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Robert Lockwood Jr. lived or performed in the city.

B.B. King began his public entertaining career in West Memphis at the Square Deal Cafe, known as Miss Annie's Place, on South 16th Street.