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Nashville is a city and the county seat of Howard County in southwest Arkansas — not to be confused with Nashville, Tennessee, for which settler Michael Womack proposed naming this town.

The community began around Mine Creek, where the Reverend Isaac Cooper Perkins built Mine Creek Baptist Church about 1835; locals also knew the early settlement as Hell's Valley and Pleasant Valley.

Nashville was incorporated in October 1883 with D. A. Hutchinson as its first mayor, and in 1884 the railroad reached town and the county seat was moved from Center Point to Nashville.

The 2020 census counted 4,153 people in Nashville, living in 1,657 households.

The world's largest dinosaur trackway was discovered in a gypsum quarry north of Nashville in 1983, where 5,000 to 10,000 sauropod footprints were found in a mudstone layer; casts of the tracks are on display at Nashville City Park and in museums around Arkansas.

William T. Dillard opened his first department store in Nashville in 1938, founding what became the Dillard's department store chain.

Nashville was once a major center of the peach trade: production peaked in 1950 with more than 400,000 bushels collected from 425 orchards, before devastating freezes in 1952 and 1953 pushed growers to convert their land to cattle pasture and chicken farming.

Nashville sits at the base of the Ouachita foothills in the valley of Mine Creek, a tributary of the Saline and Little rivers.

Nashville hosts a campus of Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas, which operates from a facility built in 2006 on 35 acres west of town.

The Howard County Courthouse in Nashville is one of the few public buildings in Arkansas built in the Moderne/Art Deco style, and the surrounding Downtown Commercial Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.