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Eudora is a city in southern Chicot County — Arkansas's southeasternmost county — in the Mississippi Delta near the Louisiana state line.

Eudora's post office dates to 1856, and the city was incorporated on February 8, 1904.

The American Guide to Arkansas described Eudora as a "cotton-ginning and sawmill town with the usual red-brick stores and offices," capturing its Delta farm economy.

Eudora bills itself as the "Catfish Capital of Arkansas," a slogan proclaimed on the town's water tower.

The 2020 census counted 1,728 residents in Eudora, living in 804 households — less than half the city's 1980 peak population of 3,840.

About nine in ten Eudora residents are Black or African American, who made up 90.4 percent of the population in the 2020 census.

Eudora is the warmest populated place in Arkansas, with a humid subtropical climate in which July and August average highs reach the mid-90s and the all-time record high is 108 degrees Fahrenheit.

U.S. Route 65 runs through Eudora, leading north 17 miles to Lake Village, the Chicot County seat, and south toward Lake Providence, Louisiana.

Grand Lake, an oxbow lake left behind by a former channel of the Mississippi River, lies about four miles southeast of the city.

Eudora's own school district was consolidated into the Lakeside School District in February 2006, ending more than a century of locally run schools.