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Mountain View is a city in the Ozark Mountains of north-central Arkansas and is the county seat and largest city of Stone County.

The town takes its name from its setting in a valley bordered by the Blue Mountain Range of the Ozark Mountains.

When Stone County was created in 1873, a site near the center of the county was chosen as the seat of government, and Mountain View was incorporated on August 14, 1890.

The 2020 census counted 2,877 people in Mountain View, living in 1,287 households.

Mountain View bills itself as the "Folk Music Capital of the World," a title rooted in its generations-long preservation of traditional Ozark folk music and culture.

Whenever the weather is nice, musicians gather for impromptu jam sessions on the Stone County Courthouse square, playing old-time, bluegrass, folk, and gospel tunes much as townsfolk have for decades.

The Ozark Folk Center State Park, which opened in 1973, preserves Ozark heritage with live demonstrations of traditional crafts, a 1,000-seat music theater, and the Ozark Cultural Resource Center.

The Arkansas Folk Festival was first held in April 1963, drawing more than 2,500 visitors to a town of fewer than 1,000 residents, and it remains the city's signature spring event.

Each October, the Arkansas Bean Fest cooks nearly a ton of pinto beans in antique iron kettles on the courthouse square, then caps the weekend with the Great Championship Outhouse Races, whose winner takes home the Golden Toilet Seat Trophy.

Mountain View is a base for outdoor recreation, with Blanchard Springs Caverns, trout fishing on the White River, and the trails of the Ozark National Forest all nearby.