Maumelle
Maumelle is a suburban city roughly twelve miles northwest of downtown Little Rock along the Arkansas River in Pulaski County. The city is served by I-40 and Arkansas Highway 100. The Union Pacific Railroad passes along the northern edge of the city. The population of Maumelle is 10,557.
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Origins of Maumelle
Maumelle was originally a six thousand acre federal ammunition depot. It became a New Town project managed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Growth and demographics in the city would be carefully monitored and maintained in order to create a self-sustaining community "to live, work, and play." The city name is a corruption of the original French appellation given to nearby cone-shaped Pinnacle Mountain: Mamelle (woman's breast).
Dowell Naylor Jr. was chairman and chief executive director of the Maumelle Land Development Company. Beginning in 1967 Naylor worked with insurance executive Jess Odom on the New Town development that became Maumelle.
Since the 1980s, Maumelle has seen dramatic growth that includes numerous small businesses and large businesses alike, which, combined with local residents, provide a good deal of tax revenue which allows for its own fire and police departments. It is also home to a water treatment facility better known as Maumelle Water Management.
Maumelle also sports its own golf course, the Maumelle Country Club; several lakes, including Lake Maumelle, Lake Valencia, Lake Willastein; a library, which is part of the Central Arkansas Library System; a community center named the Maumelle Diamond Center; as well as a charter school and several daycare centers. The city also has several Christian churches such as Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church; there is also a Methodist church, and more recently, a New Life Church.
Government
The mayor of Maumelle is Mike Watson.
Education
Healthcare
Recreation
- Lake Willastein Regional Park
- Maumelle Country Club
- Country Club of Arkansas
- Lake Maumelle
- Lake Valencia
- Maumelle Diamond Center
Maumelle Industrial Park
- Target Distribution Center
- Scholastic Inc.
- Ace Hardware Distribution
- Kraft
- Fresenius Medical Care NA
- Kimberly-Clark
- Molex, Inc.
- Cintas Corporation
- Plastic Ingenuity
Other Notable Businesses
Landmarks
Geography and Geology
Demographics
Maumelle is the twenty-seventh largest city in Arkansas.
Population:
- 2006 - 15,115 (special census)
- 2000 - 10,557
