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Omaha is a small town in northern Boone County, Arkansas — not to be confused with Omaha, Nebraska — sitting about five miles south of the Missouri state line and roughly ten miles from Branson, Missouri.

Omaha lies on Arkansas Highway 14, the old U.S. Route 65, and was a stop on the Missouri Pacific Railroad's White River line; it is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Omaha's first post office opened on August 7, 1873, when the settlement had only about 35 residents, and no record has ever been found explaining why the name 'Omaha' was chosen.

The town was platted in 1903 as the railroad arrived, and the nearby Cricket and Crest railroad tunnels, built in 1903–1905, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the Crest Tunnel, at 3,500 feet, is the longest railroad tunnel in Arkansas.

In the town's early timber-boom years, Omaha supported four steam sawmills and four flour mills by 1884, and a bank was incorporated there in 1907.

Omaha was incorporated on February 1, 1936, after a 1930s attempt to qualify as a 'border city' and take advantage of Missouri's lower gasoline taxes was ultimately struck down by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1941.

For decades, traffic on old U.S. 65 between Harrison and Missouri funneled travelers through Omaha, but the new U.S. 65 opened in late 1999 bypassed the town completely and devastated its tourist-dependent businesses almost overnight.

Omaha's population reached 207 in the 1990 census, then eased to 165 in 2000 and 169 in 2010 before dropping to 128 in the 2020 census.

Public education in Omaha is provided by the Omaha School District, and students graduate from Omaha High School, whose gymnasium locals call the 'Eagles' Nest.'

Former University of Arkansas football All-American Brandon Burlsworth, whose life story inspired the film Greater, is buried at Gass Cemetery in Omaha.