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Grady is a second-class city in northern Lincoln County in southeastern Arkansas.

The city was incorporated on April 20, 1907.

The 2020 census counted 305 people in 178 households in Grady, down sharply from 449 in 2010; the city's population peaked at 688 in 1970.

The settlement was first called Hall's Landing, after John S. Hall, who brought his family from South Carolina in 1846; when a post office was established in 1881 it was named Williamsburg, and in 1898 it was renamed Grady in honor of the local telegraph operator.

A railroad depot for the Little Rock, Mississippi River, and Texas Railway reached Grady in 1884, on a line that eventually became part of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Grady sits near the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, which opened as the Cummins State Prison Farm in 1902 and has long provided jobs for area workers.

During World War II, Matthews Field, a small auxiliary airfield supporting training at Grider Field in Pine Bluff, operated southeast of Grady from 1942 to 1944, and in 1944 and 1945 the city housed a prisoner-of-war camp whose prisoners helped with cotton farming and held Sunday concerts attended by local citizens.

Business Highway 65 bisects Grady, while the main U.S. Highway 65 bypasses the city.

The Grady school system was consolidated into the Star City school district in 2004, and Grady is now home to the Arkansas Department of Career Education's Riverside Vocational Technical School.

Carpenter's Produce, founded by Abraham Carpenter Sr. in 1969 near Grady, grew into an important independent Black-owned fruit and vegetable business in Arkansas.