Helena-West Helena, Arkansas
（重定向自West Helena）
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![The view from the Battery C park over downtown Helena. Battery C was a station in the Battle of Helena.](/Images/godic/202502/20/BatteryCView0504.jpg")
![Barges traveling north on the Mississippi River pass the Helena river park](/Images/godic/202502/20/MississippiRiverActivityfromHelena0504.jpg")
Helena-West Helena is the county seat of and the largest city within Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. The current city represents a consolidation, effective on January 1, 2006, of the two Arkansas cities of Helena and West Helena. West Helena is located on the western side of Crowley's Ridge, a geographic anomaly of the typically flat Arkansas Delta. Helena is nestled between the Mississippi River and the eastern side of Crowley's Ridge. The Helena Bridge, one of Arkansas' four Mississippi River bridges, carries U.S. Route 49 across to Mississippi. The combined population of the two cities was 15,012 at the 2000 census and at the 2010 census the official population was 12,282.