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Jasper is a city and the county seat of Newton County, set on the Little Buffalo River in the Boston Mountains of the Arkansas Ozarks.

The 2020 census counted 547 residents in Jasper, living in 240 households and 137 families.

Settlers were in the Jasper area by 1825, and a village had been established along the Little Buffalo River by 1840.

Newton County was created on December 14, 1842, from Carroll County and named for Thomas Willoughby Newton; Jasper became the county seat in 1843.

Jasper was incorporated on May 8, 1896, and covers just 0.95 square miles.

Jasper is the hub for visitors to the Buffalo National River — one of the last free-flowing waterways in the United States, designated in 1972 — and to the Ozark Highland Trail, with the park's creation boosting canoeing, fishing, and camping around the town.

Elk were reintroduced to the Buffalo River country in 1981–1985, when 112 Rocky Mountain elk were brought in from Colorado and Nebraska; in 1998 Governor Mike Huckabee proclaimed Newton County the "Elk Capital of Arkansas," and a large elk statue was placed on the Jasper courthouse lawn in 2017.

The Newton County Courthouse, at the center of Jasper's town square, was built in 1939 with Works Progress Administration funds after the previous courthouse burned; its walls are granite quarried from the bed of the Little Buffalo River, every room is a fireproof vault, and its cornerstone reads "U.S.A — 1939 — WPA."

The courthouse anchors the Jasper Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the nearby Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District.

Generations of locals have gathered at the Ozark Café on the square, a Jasper tradition since 1909.