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Willisville is a small incorporated town in southern Nevada County, Arkansas, located on U.S. Highway 371 in the farm and timber country of the state's southwest.

The community traces its roots to a general store opened by Jason Tyson after the Civil War; in 1883 his son John became postmaster of a post office first planned as Tyson's Store, and the name was changed to Willisville, evidently honoring Willis G. Herring, who became postmaster in 1893.

An 1890 Goodspeed history described Willisville as a post village with two country stores, a grist mill and a cotton gin, and a business directory of the era put its population at about forty.

Willisville's post office closed in 1907 and the community faded from business records, but its roughly 200 residents voted to incorporate as a town on July 6, 1971, to make federal and state improvement money available.

The 2020 census counted 148 people in Willisville, down from 152 in 2010 and 188 in 2000; the 2000 census recorded 76 households in the town.

Willisville covers about 1.6 square miles of land and is part of the Hope Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The Willisville School District merged into the Nevada School District on July 1, 1985, ending the town's era of operating its own school.

Arkansas state senator Joyce Elliott, a longtime legislator from Little Rock, was born in Willisville in 1951.