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Stuttgart is a city in Arkansas County, Arkansas, serving as county seat of the county's northern district, with DeWitt serving as the southern district seat.

Stuttgart is known around the world as the "Rice and Duck Capital of the World" for its combination of rice farming and waterfowl hunting along the Mississippi Flyway.

The city was founded by the Reverend Adam Buerkle, a German immigrant from Plattenhardt, who opened a post office on April 30, 1880, and named the settlement for Stuttgart, Germany.

Stuttgart was incorporated on April 19, 1889, two years after the Texas and St. Louis Railroad reached the town in 1882.

The 2020 census counted 8,264 people in Stuttgart, living in 3,553 households across the city's 7.41 square miles.

Stuttgart sits on the Arkansas Grand Prairie, a flat grassland underlain by an impermeable clay layer — the Stuttgart soil series — that proved ideal for flooded rice fields.

Rice took hold around Stuttgart in 1902, when W. E. Hope planted a small experimental plot that yielded 139 bushels per acre.

Riceland Foods, a farmer-owned cooperative formed in 1921 and headquartered in Stuttgart, has grown into the world's largest miller and marketer of rice.

Producers Rice Mill, another of the nation's largest farmer-owned rice milling cooperatives, is also headquartered in Stuttgart.

Mack's Prairie Wings, based in Stuttgart, is known internationally as a premier waterfowl hunting outfitter, and the flooded rice fields around the city draw duck and goose hunters from around the world each winter.