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Crawfordsville, historically spelled Crawfordville, is a small town in Crittenden County in the Arkansas Delta, just south of U.S. Route 64, about eight miles west of Marion and nineteen miles west of Memphis, Tennessee.

The community grew out of the timber industry that spread through eastern Arkansas after the Civil War, and the opening of a railroad line sustained it as its economy shifted from timber to farming in the early twentieth century.

Crawfordsville was named for Adolphus Fountain Crawford, who had fought for the Confederacy as a young man and settled in the area to work at a store in the neighboring community of Vincent.

The town was formally incorporated on January 26, 1912.

Sitting ten to fifteen feet higher than its immediate neighbors, Crawfordsville was largely spared the flood devastation that repeatedly struck nearby Delta communities.

Starting in 1944, a prisoner-of-war camp on the southwestern outskirts of Crawfordsville housed captured German troops, including Afrika Korps soldiers taken in North Africa.

The 2020 census counted 462 people in Crawfordsville, down from a peak of 831 in 1970; at the 2000 census the town had 514 residents living in 202 households.

Crawfordsville lies within the Northern Backswamps ecoregion of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, a landscape of floodplain forests of bald cypress, water tupelo, and oak, and the Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge lies to its northeast.

Gospel and rhythm-and-blues singer Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville.

Since July 1, 2004, Crawfordsville students have attended the Marion School District, including Marion High School, after the Crawfordsville School District was consolidated into it.