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Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville
is the third-largest city in
Arkansas
and
county seat
of
Washington County
. The city is centrally located within the county and has been home of the
University of Arkansas
since the institution's founding in 1871. Fayetteville is on the outskirts of the
Boston Mountains
, deep within the
Ozarks
. Known as
Washington
until 1829, the city was named after
Fayetteville, Tennessee
, where many of the settlers were from. It was incorporated on November 3, 1836 and was rechartered in 1867. The four-county
Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area
is ranked 105th in terms of population in the
United States
with 463,204 in 2010 according to the
United States Census Bureau
. The city had a population of 73,580 at the
2010 Census
.
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