Bee Branch is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Van Buren County, Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

, U.S.A.

United States

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. The community is located near secondary roads and no Interstate highway

Interstate Highway System

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s in the immediate area. U.S. Route 65

U.S. Route 65

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 is the most major highway to go through Bee Branch. The elevation of Bee Branch is 764 feet (232.9 m) above sea level

Sea level

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 and its residents use the Central Time Zone. The ZIP code

ZIP Code

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 that the Bee Branch area residents use is 72013.

More than 70% of the local population consist of married couples. The majority of the population were born out-of-state and exclusively speak the English language

English language

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. Residents of Bee Branch spend an average of 42 minutes commuting to and from work. Bee Branch was indirectly affected by an outbreak of tornadoes in November 2005. Bee Branch has enjoyed a population growth of 5% since 2000 with a current population of 1,724 people. There is no metro area or city nearby; therefore, residents and visitors have difficulty using alternative transportation. However, the nearest towns are Clinton

Clinton, Arkansas

Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,283 at the 2000 census. The city was named for DeWitt Clinton, the New York governor who built the Erie Canal; he previously was also a U.S. Senator from New York. Clinton is located at...

 and Fairfield Bay

Fairfield Bay, Arkansas

Fairfield Bay is a city in Cleburne and Van Buren counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The population was 2,460 at the 2000 census...

.

Southside High School

Southside High School (Bee Branch, Arkansas)

South Side High School is a public high school in Bee Branch, Arkansas. South Side High School has about 530 students enrolled. Despite its name, kindergarten through twelfth grade are taught in this school. South Side High School is currently one of the smallest "single A" public schools in...

 is the town's local school that provides instruction to children from kindergarten

Kindergarten

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 (ages 4–5) to twelfth grade

Twelfth grade

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 (ages 17–21).

Notable people

Bee Branch is also the home town of Larry Nixon

Larry Nixon

Larry Nixon is a professional fisherman whose career started at the 1977 Florida Invitational in Welaka, Florida. Larry's marital status is married and he has a wife named Amy, along with a daughter named Lindsey and two sons...

. He is a professional fisherman

Fisherman

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 and a video game celebrity in Japan with a wife

Wife

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, two son

Son

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s and one daughter

Daughter

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. While the local video game players either bought and/or rented this game as TNN Bass Tournament of Champions

TNN Bass Tournament of Champions

TNN Bass Tournament of Champions is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Mega Drive/Genesis fishing game based on the defunct Nashville Network . It is known in Japan as...

in the Bee Branch area, Japanese gamers saw the game released as Larry Nixon's Super Bass Fishing. The capital of Japan

Tokyo

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 (Tokyo) is located 6492 miles (10,447.8 km) away from Bee Branch and only avid sports fans realized Nixon's link to the Bee Branch area.

Virginia Morris Johnson

Virginia Johnson (Arkansas)

Virginia Lillian Morris Johnson , was, in 1968, the first woman to seek the office of governor of Arkansas.-Early years:...

, the first woman (1968) to seek the office of governor of Arkansas, was reared in Bee Branch from the age of fourteen years. She eventually graduated from Southside High School in 1946.