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Van Buren
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city in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Crawford
- Township s
- Dora, Van Buren
- Incorporated
- January 4, 1845
- Named after
- Martin Van Buren
- Type
- Mayor–Council
- Mayor
- Joe Hurst ( I )
- Council
- Members Madison Simmons Matt Dodson Tyler Wood Tonia Fry Michael Kneeland Shannon Newerth-Henson
- City
- 16.10 sq mi (41.70 km )
- Land
- 15.42 sq mi (39.94 km )
- Water
- 0.68 sq mi (1.76 km )
- Elevation
- 650 ft (200 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 24,556
- Density
- 1,505.7/sq mi (581.34/km )
- Metro
- 227,213 ( Fort Smith metropolitan area )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Van Buren
- Population
- 23218
- Area
- 42.732581
- Elevation
- 122
- Official website
- www.vanburencity.org
- Image
- Van Buren collage.png
- Households
- 9150
- Dialing code
- 479
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- postal code
- 72956
- Commons category
- Van Buren, Arkansas
- inception
- 1831-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 6.3357
- P8168
- DUP
- water area
- 2.707412
- per capita income
- 26048
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Van Buren (/væn ˈbjʊərən/ van BURE-ən) is the second-largest city in the Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area and the county seat of Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. The city is located directly northeast of Fort Smith at the Interstate 40 – Interstate 540 junction. The city was incorporated in 1845 and as of the 2020 census had a population of 23,218, ranking it as the state's 21st largest city. According to 2023 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, Van Buren’s population is 24,138. With a 4% growth rate from 2020 to 2023, Van Buren is Arkansas’s eighth-fastest growing city.
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