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Strong is a small city in southern Union County, Arkansas, about seven miles north of the Louisiana border, where U.S. Highway 82 follows the old railroad line through town.

Strong was founded in 1902 along the newly built El Dorado and Bastrop Railway, on a 120-acre town site laid out by J. Solomon Coleman, who offered the railroad a right-of-way across his land.

The rail stop was first named Victoria, but Coleman renamed the community for railroad executive Colonel William Strong, and the post office also took the name Strong in 1904 after officials found another Arkansas post office already called Victoria.

Strong was incorporated as a second-class city on September 7, 1903, the same year the Gorman brothers opened its first mercantile store and the Victoria Bank opened.

The booming new railroad town quickly eclipsed and absorbed New London, an older trading center six miles north that had once served as a co-county seat of Union County.

In 1927 a tornado demolished most of Strong and killed thirty people.

Strong became an important shipping station for local farm products, especially cotton, and many of its residents have worked in the south Arkansas timber industry.

Strong's population peaked at 965 in 1970; the 2020 census counted 410 residents, down from 651 people in 256 households at the 2000 census.

Strong is home to the Strong–Huttig School District, created on July 1, 2004, when the Strong and Huttig districts consolidated; its schools are Gardner–Strong Elementary School and Strong High School.

Twenty-first-century Strong remains an active small community, with more than sixty officially recognized businesses and organizations.