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Bergman is a town in Boone County in the Arkansas Ozarks, on State Highway 7 several miles northeast of Harrison, the county seat.

Before the town existed, the site was known as Oregon Flat, where the Fancher expedition camped for a night on its way west, and a post office named Oregon operated there from 1879 to 1896.

Bergman began as a railroad stop on the White River line of the Iron Mountain Railroad and was briefly platted under the name Clabby before taking its present name.

The town is named for Edith Bergman, its first postmistress, the daughter of a Dr. Bergman who provided land for the townsite.

Bergman was first incorporated in April 1905, but that incorporation was allowed to lapse, and the town's current incorporation dates to April 3, 1968.

Within its first decade Bergman had three hotels, seven stores, three restaurants, a jewelry store, a lumber yard and sawmill, two blacksmith shops, a printing shop, and a poultry-processing plant.

A Methodist church established in 1909 doubled as the public school until a separate schoolhouse was built in 1918.

Bergman was chosen as one of only eight consolidated school districts in Boone County in the late 1920s, and a new consolidated school campus was built there in 1929, drawing students from roughly a hundred square miles.

In 1987 Tyson Foods built a poultry feed mill in Bergman capable of producing 120 tons of feed per hour, and Bergman is best known in the twenty-first century for its role in Arkansas's poultry industry.

The 2020 census counted 426 residents in Bergman, slightly down from 439 in 2010.