Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Since 1933, Jacksonville has been the site of the annual Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, a major college football rivalry game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and since 1946, the city has hosted the Gator Bowl, one of the oldest annual college football bowl games.

announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists, along with Charlotte, St. Louis, Baltimore and Memphis.

Taylor, who is considered to be one of the greatest Jaguars in the history of the franchise, rushed for over 10, 000 yards during his tenure with Jacksonville and earned one trip to the Pro Bowl.

Contributing to this decline in ticket sales is the fact that Jacksonville is one of the league's smallest markets, though its stadium is relatively large ; since 2005 the team has covered nearly 10, 000 of the stadium's 73, 000 total seats with tarp in order to lower the stadium's official capacity to a more typical size and reduce blackouts.

The blue jersey and white pants combo has been worn for only one regular season game, the 2005 season opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the white jersey and blue pants combination has not been worn regularly since late in the 2002 season, with the exception of late in the 2009 season.

The city has only received one direct hit from a hurricane since 1871, although Jacksonville has experienced hurricane or near-hurricane conditions more than a dozen times due to storms passing through the state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, or passing to the north or south in the Atlantic and brushing past the area.

They differ from consolidated city – counties such as Jacksonville, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana and San Francisco, California, where a city and county have been merged into one unified jurisdiction.

Jacksonville State University is located here, which is a center of commerce and one of the largest employers in the area.

Despite Pulaski County being one of the few counties in Arkansas that is not a " dry " county, as it allows the sales of beer and liquor, the municipal limits of Jacksonville are " dry ", as it does not allow the sales of alcohol in stores.

In addition, mirroring Jacksonville, the town has one of the highest percentage of Filipino American in the state of Florida.

Though the Jacksonville Beaches region was one of the first parts of what is now the continental United States to see settlement during the period of European colonization, the area of Jacksonville Beach itself was not settled until the 19th century.

It is one of the eight municipalities that comprise Metro Jacksonville and is among Florida's northernmost cities.

The SF & W ’ s route was a longer one since it traveled through Jesup, Screven, and Waycross before cutting over southwest to Folkston to travel on to Jacksonville.

Jacksonville has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International:

Without change of train, one could travel to Memphis, Nashville, Meridian, Montgomery, Mobile, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Daytona, Orlando, Miami, Centralia, Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans.

In September 1922, he made the first of many pioneering flights, flying a de Havilland DH-4 – which was equipped with early navigational instruments – in the first cross-country flight, from Pablo Beach ( renamed Jacksonville Beach ), Florida, to Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, in 21 hours and 19 minutes, making only one refueling stop at Kelly Field.

The Memphis Hound Dogs, as the proposed team was to be called, was one of five teams to be considered, but was passed over in favor of the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars.

* " The Friendliest Campus in the South "- According to NSSE ( National Survey of Student Engagement ), Jacksonville State University really does live up to this nickname, which is one that has survived the test of time.

It is one of the great rivalry games in college football, and since 1933 it has been held in Jacksonville, Florida, with only two exceptions, making it one of the few remaining neutral-site rivalries.

The game is one of the busiest annual events in downtown Jacksonville, and attracts huge crowds that congregate around the stadium for tailgating and other happenings.

Wallace, originally named Jacksonville, is a town located in Jackson Township, Fountain County, Indiana in the United States.

Jacksonville last wore white at home for early season games in 2007.

One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville ; this may be the earliest recorded name for that area.

Backlit from lights from Jacksonville, German submarine U-123 was able to target and sink the SS Gulfamerica on April 10, 1942, early in World War II.

From early 1993 through August 2005 Crestview was served by the tri-weekly Amtrak Sunset Limited, but service east of New Orleans to Jacksonville and Orlando was suspended due to damage to the rail line of CSX during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The Borough was known in the early part of the 19th century as Jacksonville and later as Lebanonville, Lebanonville Depot and finally Lebanon, a station on the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

Another early French attempt at settlement in North America was Fort Caroline, established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, in 1564.

It was the rival of Jacksonville in the early 19th Century.

In the 1970s and early 1980s Jacksonville saw a very active music recording scene with Southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, The Outlaws, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

In early April 1916, the commission approved the route between Macon and Jacksonville via Savannah, Georgia, and designated the more direct route via Waycross, Georgia as the central division.

Jacksonville has had minor league baseball nearly every year since the early 20th century.

They played nine games against playoff teams and caught a lot of the other teams when they were hot — Oklahoma and New Orleans early and San Antonio and Jacksonville late.

By the early 1990s, Scott had attained the rank of lieutenant commander and was stationed at Naval Air Station Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida.

However, WJXX failed to gain significant traction in the market ; in addition to lingering confusion from the early announcement of WBSG being the ABC affiliate for Jacksonville and the subsequent early launch, the station never had full signal parity with VHF competitors WJXT ( channel 4 ; then a CBS affiliate ) and WTLV, even with the help from WBSG.

WTLV's Action News launched the city's first morning newscast, Good Morning Jacksonville, in the early 1980s.

That season, Taylor showed early promise for himself and for his team by scoring two touchdowns in the second game of the season, a shootout victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars — a team the Ravens had never beaten.

The Vikings were a band from Jacksonville, Florida in the early 1960s.

In early 1975, Toole returned to Jacksonville after drifting and hitch-hiking through the American South.

From early 1993 through late August 2005 it also operated from New Orleans to Miami ( and, later, to Jacksonville, Florida ), during which time it was the only true transcontinental passenger train in American history.

Due to the Jacksonville Jaguars ' quarterback injury problems in early 2010, Ramsey was brought on as a potential temporary backup for the team.

In the early 1950s, Naval Air Technical Training Center ( NATTC ) Jacksonville was also reactivated and included nine different schools.

Force reductions in the 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ) eliminated several P-3C squadrons ( VP-24, VP-49, VP-56 ) and SH-60F / HH-60H squadrons ( HS-1, HS-9, HS-75 ) at NAS Jacksonville, while the BRAC-directed closure of nearby NAS Cecil Field resulted in the relocation of Sea Control Wing ONE and its multiple Sea Control Squadrons ( VS-22, VS-24, VS-29, VS-30, VS-31 ) operating the S-3 Viking until that aircraft's retirement from the active Fleet in 2008.