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Reyno is a small city in Randolph County, Arkansas, on U.S. Highway 67 about halfway between Pocahontas and Corning, near the Current River.

The town was originally called Needmore and stood about a mile and a half south of its present site; its name was later changed to Cherokee Bay when a post office of that name moved there from Shoemaker's Ferry on the Current River.

The name Reyno is a shortening of Reynolds, honoring Dennis Wells Reynolds, a merchant who opened the town's first store and built its first home in 1857.

Reyno was incorporated on October 18, 1886.

In 1901 the town relocated to its present site to sit beside the newly built St. Louis-San Francisco Railway; the relocated town briefly took the name Esselwood before residents reverted to Reyno.

Reyno's population peaked at 521 in the 1980 census; the 2020 census counted 391 residents, down from 456 in 2010.

Reyno covers only about one square mile, making it a compact railroad-era townsite on the highway.

Sections of U.S. Highway 67 near Reyno are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as surviving pieces of the early automobile-age highway.

In 1946 Reyno's school district was consolidated with neighboring Biggers to form the Biggers-Reyno School District, which itself was consolidated into the Corning School District effective July 1, 2004.

By the mid-twentieth century Reyno was a prosperous farm-trade community with three churches, four stores, and several other businesses serving northern Randolph County.