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Goshen is a city in Washington County in Northwest Arkansas, located about ten miles east of Fayetteville on Arkansas Highway 45.

The community took its name from the biblical land of Goshen and began as a Methodist camp meeting ground, one of six such camp grounds in the area.

A post office opened at the settlement in 1874 under the name College Grove, and the name was changed to Goshen in 1876.

Although the community was settled early in the nineteenth century, Goshen did not incorporate until October 11, 1982, when residents voted to form a second-class city to provide services such as water treatment and road maintenance.

The population of Goshen was 2,102 at the 2020 census, nearly double the 1,071 residents counted in 2010.

The 2010 census counted 389 households in Goshen.

Goshen covers about 11.31 square miles at an elevation of about 1,191 feet, in farming and timber country east of Fayetteville.

The Goshen area was historically known for fruit production, especially apples, before poultry and trucking became the principal industries of Washington County.

Goshen remains almost entirely residential, with its main landmarks being the Methodist church and the Goshen cemetery, and its children attend schools in the Fayetteville school system.