Jonesboro, Louisiana Town of Jonesboro Jonesboro City Hall Jonesboro City Hall Downtown Jonesboro is split along the Jimmie Davis Boulevard.
Jonesboro State Bank is positioned downtown.
The First Baptist Church of Jonesboro is positioned at the intersection of Jimmie Davis Boulevard and South Cooper Avenue.
Another view of downtown Jonesboro on the Jimmie Davis Boulevard facing east Jonesboro is a town in and the church seat of Jackson Parish in the northern portion of the U.S.
Jonesboro is positioned at 32 14 23 N 92 42 41 W (32.239611, -92.711501). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 4.9 square miles (13 km2), of which 4.8 square miles (12 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.82%) is water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Jonesboro has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Two years into his second term, Jonesboro Mayor Leslie Cornell Thompson was suspended for malfeasance in office.
Thompson's wife, Yoshi Chambers Thompson, was initially appointed to succeed him as interim mayor, but her legitimacy is under fire from Kenneth David Folden, the fiscal administrator appointed the day after Thompson's conviction to get town/city finances back into order.
Meanwhile, Judge James Cecil "Jimmy" Teat of the Louisiana 2nd Judicial District Court in Jonesboro ruled that Thompson had violated the conditions of his bond through continued interference in municipal business.
Judge Teat ordered Thompson to be incarcerated in the Jackson Parish Correctional Center until his sentencing on the malfeasance charges. On October 17, 2013, based on the conviction of malfeasance, Judge Teat sentenced Mayor Thompson to six years of difficult labor, large fines, $51,000 in restitution to the town/city of Jonesboro, five years' suspended sentence, and five years of supervised probation.
SR 4 joins Highway 167 at Jonesboro, and it is in the southwestern portion of Jackson Parish.
Jackson Parish School Board serves the town.
Welborn Ayres, former judge of the Louisiana Second Judicial District based in Jonesboro Bobby Culpepper, lawyer and Democratic politician; Jonesboro native and resident Culpepper, Jackson Parish clerk of court, state senator, and later judge in Alexandria Culpepper, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jackson Parish from 1964 to 1968 James Houston "Jimmie" Davis, who is buried there, was a Louisiana governor and writer of the song "You Are My Sunshine".
Fannin, state representative from Jackson Parish since 2003; nephew-by-marriage of Jimmie Davis Charles Henry Garrett, DVM (1934 2010), as a Republican member of the Jackson Parish Police Jury from 1988 2008, Garrett worked to construct the Jackson Parish Community Center, Health Unit, and the Veterans Memorial Park.
A graduate of Louisiana Tech University and Texas A&M University, Garrett practiced veterinary medicine in his native Jonesboro.
Randy Moffett, president of the University of Louisiana System from 2008 to 2012, was born in Jonesboro in 1947.
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Town of Jonesboro Municipalities and communities of Jackson Parish, Louisiana, United States Parish seats of Louisiana
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