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DeValls Bluff — officially styled the City of DeVall's Bluff — is a city in Prairie County and serves as the county seat for the county's southern district, one of Prairie County's two seats of justice alongside Des Arc.

The town is named for Jacob M. DeVall, who with his son Chappel became the area's first recorded settlers, appearing on Prairie County tax records in 1851.

DeValls Bluff was founded on December 12, 1856, and incorporated on April 4, 1866.

The city sits on the White River along U.S. Highway 70, in the Grand Prairie section of east-central Prairie County.

During the Civil War, DeValls Bluff was a strategic White River trading and supply center, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes that, excluding Helena, no other town in eastern Arkansas held such strategic importance to the Union army.

Union forces captured DeValls Bluff on January 18, 1863, and after the fall of Little Rock the city was used to store supplies and house injured Union soldiers for the remainder of the war.

The city's population peaked at 924 in the 1910 census and has since declined; the 2020 census counted 520 residents.

In the 2000 census, DeValls Bluff's 783 residents lived in 334 households.

The surrounding Grand Prairie landscape around DeValls Bluff is today defined by rice cultivation, aquaculture, and duck hunting.

The Prairie County Courthouse, Southern District, stands in DeValls Bluff as the seat of county government for the southern half of the county.