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Lawton Ranked
#75 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Lawton Ranked
#89 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Lawton Ranked
#159 2005 Best Places to Live
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Lawton Ranked
#190 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Jonesboro

Jonesboro Ranked
#2 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)
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Jonesboro Ranked
#2 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters
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Jonesboro Ranked
#75 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Jonesboro Ranked
#80 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Jonesboro Ranked
#257 2005 Best Places to Live
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Jonesboro Ranked
#270 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Lawton    45 Reviews

If I could give this place less than a star I would. When we moved down here from Pennsylvania we expected southern hospitality. This town is so far from that its  More

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It's a military town with nothing to offer. People will say cheap gas, cheap property, decent climate and museums. Yes this is all true of Lawton Oklahoma, BUT that's  More

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The only good thing about Lawton is that it's close to a nice wildlife refuge, which has great hiking, and some buffalo. Lawton tricked U.S. businesses into coming into  More

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Reviews for Jonesboro    18 Reviews

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I have lived in Jonesboro for 25 years and have enjoyed seeing the economic growth of this community. My children are able to attend a great public school and my wife  More

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Over 5 years ago

Yikes, this is one of those places that used to have sundown town policies in place well into the 20th century. Welcome to the conservative, baptist South.  More

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Ashamed of Jonesboro! I was born and raised there back in the late 70's and 80's We never heard of killings, not much of drugs, we were able to play outside, Nettleton  More

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