West Memphis, city, Crittenden County, eastern Arkansas, on the Mississippi River, west of Memphis, Tennessee (hence its name); incorporated 1927. It is a distribution and manufacturing center. Produced here are forest products and processed cotton and food. The city, linked by bridge with Memphis, has greyhound and automobile racing facilities. It was founded about 1910 as the logging camp of Bragg's Spur and was renamed West Memphis in 1929. Population 28,138 (1980); 28,259 (1990); 27,666 (2000).
