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Summit is a city in Marion County in the Arkansas Ozarks, and it is not a geographic summit but an incorporated city directly north of Yellville, the county seat.

Summit and Yellville are separated only by Division Street, and Summit's identity is so overshadowed by Yellville that many people call it North Yellville.

Summit was built as a result of construction of the White River Railway, a division of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway owned by Jay Gould.

The rail line and depot were built just north of Yellville before the end of 1904, and instead of relocating, Yellville's citizens stayed put while a new city grew up at the depot.

Summit's post office opened in 1905 and was nearly named Gould, presumably for Jay Gould, but the name Summit was chosen instead, apparently because the settlement's elevation is higher than Yellville's.

Summit was incorporated on June 2, 1917, and it is one of the incorporated cities of Marion County.

A church building erected in Summit in 1906 was at first shared by four congregations - Missionary Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Christian - and also served as a public school, city council meeting house, and polling place.

The railroad shipped agricultural products, timber, and lead and zinc out of Summit, but the timber and mining industries declined during the Great Depression and roads in and out of Summit were not paved until the 1940s.

The 2020 census counted 544 people in Summit, down from 604 in 2010, and the city covers 1.21 square miles at an elevation of about 860 feet.

Children in Summit attend schools of the Yellville-Summit School District, all located in Yellville, leading to graduation from Yellville-Summit High School.