Fort Smith is a diamond city on our sales and shipping record. Across 19 entries, filed under two spellings of the city's name, the record leans on outdoor baseball scoreboards: the LX1340 is the most frequent model, the LX2350 carries the indoor basketball side, and the LX1730 is the city's one entry from the LX173x series, the series that offers a Pitch Count arrangement.

I wrote this guide for the people who order those scoreboards: city and county parks managers, youth club directors and athletic directors. Each model is described from its own spec sheet. Each count is copied from the record and never recomputed.

The rules around a scoreboard matter as much as the cabinet. Pitch limits come from the state association under NFHS rules or from Little League, not from the scoreboard, so the right layout depends on which rulebook a program plays under.

The record has limits too. It shows what was sold and shipped, to whom and when. It does not show what was installed, what is standing today, or why any buyer ordered what it did.

How many Electro-Mech scoreboards are on record for Fort Smith, Arkansas?

Our sales and shipping record holds 19 Fort Smith entries: 10 filed under Fort Smith and 9 under Ft. Smith, which is why the city appears on two of our pages.

The spelling split is the first thing to understand about this city. Our data, from the Fort Smith city page, shows 10 entries at 8 organizations, shipped from 1998 to 2016. The other 9 sit on a second page under the abbreviated spelling. The common assumption is that one city means one list. Here it means two, and a reader who stops at the first page sees 10 entries rather than 19.

Scale matters as well. Our data, from the Arkansas state page, puts the state at 98 records across 53 cities and towns. Set against that statewide spread, a single city with 19 entries stands out. I would treat Fort Smith as one of the places where our Arkansas record is most concentrated, and read it closely for that reason.

Spelling discipline cuts both ways. According to the NCES IPEDS Data Feedback Report 2025, the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith is located in Fort Smith, AR, with the city written in full. Our record is less uniform. I read every entry exactly as the record spells it, rather than merging names or places by assumption.

Three sources frame this count: our Fort Smith city page, our Arkansas state page and the NCES report. Each entry in the record carries the same three facts:

• A shipment: a scoreboard we sold and shipped to an address in Fort Smith.
• A model and a sport: the model number as it shipped, variant suffix included, and the sport it serves, matching the way our catalog is arranged by sport, from basketball scoreboards to baseball.
• A ship date: the date the order shipped.

An entry does not say the scoreboard was installed, that it is still in use, why it was bought, what it replaced or what it cost. Where the record is silent, this article stays silent too. The distinction matters for a buyer. A count of shipments shows what organizations ordered. It is not a survey of what stands on Fort Smith fields today.

Which Electro-Mech scoreboard model appears most often in Fort Smith?

The LX1340, an outdoor baseball and softball scoreboard, leads the Fort Smith record with 4 entries; the 2350 follows with 3, and every other model appears once.

Our review of the city record counts each model together with its variants, the same way our state pages count. On that basis the LX1340 has 4 entries: one shipped as the 1340 and three as the LX1340-L. The 2350 has 3, and all three shipped as the 2350-C. No other model appears more than once.

The state record sharpens the picture. Our Arkansas record lists the LX1340 at 8 records statewide, so 4 of the state's 8 LX1340 records sit in this one city. The same record makes the LX2350 the most-shipped model in Arkansas at 10 records. In Fort Smith, that family appears only in its older 2350-C form.

The LX1340 is the scoreboard this city has ordered most. Its spec sheet is therefore the natural baseline for any diamond decision here.

Our data, from the LX1340 spec sheet, describes an outdoor baseball and softball scoreboard in a 10 ft x 5 ft aluminum cabinet weighing 170 lb. All digits are 18 inches tall, covering scores, inning and time, and the ball, strike and out counts use 4-inch bullet-style LED clusters. The electrical line reads 1.4 amps at 120 VAC. The model page traces the layout to a design that dates back to the 1980s.

One small feature earns its place. The 2-digit timer carries a bullet indicator that blinks every second while the clock runs, so the operator can see the timer is counting without waiting a full minute for the display to change. The standard console is the simplified 15-key MM design, with a full-sized 37-key console with LCD display and ScoreLink Wireless RF listed as options.

For the contractor, the LX1340 owner handbook calls for two posts, typically steel pipe, sunk in reinforced concrete footings. The mounting hardware accepts posts up to 4.5 inches in outside diameter, and the cabinet attaches at four mounting points on the rear, two per post. The handbook also advises angling the face away from the afternoon sun to reduce glare, and it leaves post and footing specifications to local building codes and wind conditions.

Football, by contrast, barely touches the model count. Anyone planning a stadium should start from our football scoreboards page rather than from this city's diamond-heavy list.

What options do the LX1340 and LX1730 documents list beyond the scoreboard itself?

Both scoreboards' published documents list ID panels with custom graphics, Stadium Sound System packages and full color video panels as options, so an order can reach past the cabinet.

The two models part ways on placement. LX1340 ID panels mount above or below the scoreboard. LX1730 ID panels can mount above, below or beside it, and the LX1730 adds a team name in place of HOME as an option. I would settle panel placement before the order goes in, because the two documents do not offer the same positions.

Several items match across both models. Each lists custom paint colors, extended configurations with ID panels built into the left or right side of the cabinet, and additional warranty and support plans. Each also carries a five-year limited warranty and toll-free technical support by phone and online for the life of the product.

Which sports does the Fort Smith record cover, and where does football fit?

Baseball carries the record: 11 baseball, 5 basketball, 2 football, 1 softball. One of the 2 football entries sits under the Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club, beside a baseball scoreboard.

The sport mix mirrors the model mix. An outdoor baseball and softball scoreboard leads the city's model list, and the diamond sports lead its sport list as well. Basketball holds second place. Football is the thin line, and softball appears once.

Our review of the organization list in the Fort Smith sales and shipping record finds a buyer holding both a diamond entry and a football entry under a single spelling. Under the Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club name, the record lists two entries:

Two orders, two sports, one organization. The LX3360 entry is filed as football, and it is the football entry this section can tie to a named buyer. The record does not say which field either scoreboard went to. It gives no reason for the football order either, and I would not supply one.

Conventional wisdom says a football town buys football scoreboards. The Fort Smith area certainly plays plenty of football. The 2026 season opened with a Week 0 crosstown final of Fort Smith Northside 21, Fort Smith Southside 7. According to High School On SI, 31 games were scheduled across the Fort Smith metro area on September 5, 2025, and 30 of the 31 kicked off at 7:00 PM CST.

Those schedules and our record measure different things. A metro schedule counts games across many schools and towns, while our record counts scoreboards shipped to buyers listed in Fort Smith. I read the football gap as a limit of what the record measures, not as a verdict on local football. Attention on a Friday night does not show up as an entry. The record says what shipped and when, and it is silent on why any buyer chose one sport over another.

Football attention and football orders are different measures. For a program researching a specific model from this list, the practical starting point is that model's own paperwork, and the Electro-Mech scoreboard manuals page is where to look for owner documents by model.

Our findings from the Arkansas sales and shipping record read like this when set out as plain fields (records snapshot 2026-09-14):

state:            Arkansas
rank:             #33 of 50 states by units shipped
by sport:         baseball 47, football 27, basketball 20, softball 4
distinct models:  36
records run:      1998 to 2025

Line 3 is the one to compare. Statewide, football is the second sport on the record. In Fort Smith, it is third. Both readings come from the same record at two scales.

What does the LX2350 display, and does it fit the NFHS per-quarter bonus?

The LX2350 is a 9 ft x 3 ft indoor basketball and multi-sport scoreboard with 12-inch Points and Period Clock digits and a built-in Bonus indicator that fits the per-quarter bonus.

The move from the diamonds to the gym brings the second model on the Fort Smith list into view. All 3 of the city's 2350 entries shipped as the 2350-C. The figures below come from the LX2350 spec sheet and describe that model. None of them should be read onto the three 2350-C scoreboards, which the record identifies by model, not by specification.

Our data, from the LX2350 spec sheet (Rev 2.0.2017.06.08), sets out the standard model and its Electronic Team Names variant side by side:

Standard equipment on the LX2350 includes an internal horn, wall mounting hardware, a data output port that supports daisy chaining additional displays, and a goal light output port for optional LED backboard goal light kits. Options include Electronic Team Names, Double Bonus Indicators, ID panels and a center hung four-sided configuration.

The rule side changed in 2023-24. Under NFHS Rule 4-8-1, a team shoots two free throws on all common fouls once the opponent commits five fouls in a quarter, and team fouls reset at the end of each quarter. The one-and-one is gone. The old thresholds, seven fouls in a half for the one-and-one and the tenth foul in a half for two shots, are no longer the high school rule, which NFHS writes and each state association applies.

One threshold per quarter means one bonus state to show. On the LX2350, that is the built-in Bonus indicator. Whether a gym adds the optional Double Bonus Indicators is a question of which rulebook governs the games played there, and I would settle it with the scorekeeper and officials before the order goes in.

Some gyms face a more basic problem: a working display at all. According to a February 2026 thread on Reddit's r/basketballcoach, one coach plays in a 2-court gym with a scoreboard on only one court and someone flipping an "old school number board" at the other. A scoreboard's first job is accurate information for players and officials. A bonus signal only does that job on a court that has one.

What should a Fort Smith baseball program check before ordering an outdoor scoreboard with a pitch-count display?

Pick the arrangement first: the LX173x series offers seven, including Pitch Count, and the LX1730 itself measures 20 ft x 6-1/2 ft and weighs 380 lb.

Baseball is the largest sport on the Fort Smith record, which makes the diamond the natural place to turn the record into a checklist. Our review of the city's entries finds a single LX1730: the Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club baseball scoreboard listed earlier. The record names the model and stops there. It does not state which of the seven LX173x arrangements shipped, so it cannot say whether that order carried a Pitch Count display.

The rule side is set outside the scoreboard. Under NFHS Rule 6-2-6, revised in 2016, each NFHS member state association develops its own pitching restriction policy based on the number of pitches thrown in a game, with a required rest period between appearances. Little League publishes its own pitch count breakdowns by league age, with days-of-rest thresholds for each division of play. Pitch limits differ by state and by league. The scoreboard shows the count; the rulebook decides what it means.

Pitch count alongside ball and strike displays is also a standing buyer question in this market. Before a program commits, I would work through four checks in this order:

1. Name the rulebook. High school play falls under the state association's pitch-count policy, and Little League play follows Little League's own breakdowns. The display should match whichever count the program keeps.
2. Choose the arrangement. The LX173x series offers a Timer with 2, 3 or 4 digits, or Pitch Count, Pitch Speed, Batter Number or Hit/Error/Fielder Position configurations.
3. Read the digit heights. On the LX1730, Ball, Strike, Out and Batter Number digits are 18 inches tall and all other digits are 15 inches, in amber or red.
4. Settle names and control. Electronic Team Names show up to 13 characters per team and move the draw from 4.0 Amps on the LX1730 to 6.6 Amps on the LX1730-ETN. A full-sized 37-key control console with LCD display is standard, and the ScoreLink Wireless RF modem system is optional.

The order of those checks matters. The rulebook decides whether a Pitch Count arrangement earns its place over a Timer or Pitch Speed. A count kept only in the scorebook is visible to one person. On the scoreboard, both dugouts and the umpires read the same number at the same moment.

What does the Fort Smith record mean for the next scoreboard order?

Read the record as a list of questions rather than a shopping list: which sport, which rulebook, which arrangement, and which model's own spec sheet answers each one.

Nineteen entries, most of them on diamonds, make Fort Smith a baseball city on paper. The profile does not change what a program should check. The state association sets the pitch-count policy under NFHS rules, and the scoreboard arrangement decides whether anyone besides the scorekeeper sees the count. The LX1340 and the LX1730 answer that question differently.

Our review of the Arkansas record adds one caution. The record keeps one row per organization, model and city, and it counts what was sold and shipped, not what stands today. I would treat it as a map of past orders, never as an inventory.

The next step is short. Pull the spec sheet for the model under consideration, name the rulebook, and bring both to the conversation.