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Strawberry is a town in southwestern Lawrence County that the Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls one of the oldest white settlements in Arkansas, even though it was not incorporated until March 5, 1965.

The Strawberry River valley was among the earliest parts of northern Arkansas settled after the Louisiana Purchase, on lands where the Osage had previously hunted and fished.

The settlement was first known as Cathey Town, for the store John Cathey established in the valley in the 1840s, but when he applied for a post office in 1854 the name became Strawberry Point, later shortened to Strawberry.

Strawberry developed slowly because it was untouched by the Civil War and missed by the railroads that transformed other Arkansas towns.

By 1936 Strawberry had six stores, two churches, and a high school.

The 2020 census counted 268 people in Strawberry, down from a peak of 302 in 2010; the 2000 census recorded 283 residents in 112 households.

Strawberry covers about 2.34 square miles, making it a spacious, rural town for its fewer than 300 residents.

Strawberry is home to Hillcrest High School, the school serving the surrounding Hillcrest School District in the Strawberry River valley.

Because its first federal census listing did not come until 1970 (218 people), Strawberry's official population history is much shorter than its settlement history.

The town's heritage was celebrated by its own Strawberry Fest 2000 Committee, which published a local history covering 1877 to 2000.