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Sunset is an incorporated town in east-central Crittenden County, Arkansas, surrounded by the city of Marion and lying just east of Interstate 55.

Sunset began as a subdivision that received its city services from neighboring Marion.

The community incorporated as a town on February 4, 1970, and began seeking federal funding to provide its own water and sewer services.

Sunset is a largely African American community; when it incorporated it had about 450 residents, most of whom were African American.

Sunset's population remained above 500 through the 1980s and 1990s — the 1980 census counted 582 people — before falling to 348 in 2000 and 184 in the 2020 census.

The 2000 census recorded Sunset's 348 residents living in 135 households.

A school building in Sunset, the Phelix School, formerly the Marion Colored School, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sunset covers only about 0.26 square miles, per the 2020 Census.

Sunset students are served by the Marion School District, whose comprehensive high school is Marion High School.

Via Interstate 55, Memphis, Tennessee, is only about 12 miles southeast of Sunset.