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Warren is a city in southeastern Arkansas and has been the seat of Bradley County since the county was organized on December 18, 1840.

Warren was incorporated on December 26, 1850.

Local tradition holds that Warren was named for a formerly enslaved man who had been freed by Captain Hugh Bradley, the county's namesake and the leader of its main early settlement party.

The 2020 census counted 5,453 people living in more than 2,100 households in Warren, down from 6,003 residents a decade earlier.

Around 1901 and 1902, three great lumber companies — the Arkansas Lumber Company, the Bradley Lumber Company, and the Southern Lumber Company — were founded in Warren, putting the city at the center of a south Arkansas timber boom.

In the 1950s, Potlatch Forests bought the Bradley and Southern lumber companies, and Potlatch remains one of Warren's largest employers today.

On January 3, 1949, a violent tornado tore through Warren, killing 55 people and injuring more than 250 — a toll tied for the deadliest tornado in Arkansas history — and its destruction of the Bradley Lumber mill displaced about 1,000 employees.

On Good Friday, March 28, 1975, a second deadly tornado followed almost the same path through Warren, killing seven people and injuring sixty-two.

Warren calls itself the Pink Tomato Capital of the World and hosts the Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival each June, a celebration organized in 1956 that ranks among Arkansas's oldest festivals.

The pink tomato honored at Warren's festival — the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato — was adopted by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1987 as both the official state fruit and the official state vegetable.