Gassville is on a high, fertile plain in the Ozark Mountains of north central Arkansas. US Highway 412/62 has been newly improved to 5 lanes through Gassville.

Gassville has a 2,000 volume library, a branch of the Baxter County Library, located in a building donated to the city by a business family.

Located between Mountain Home and Harrison, Gassville is a town of 1,714 people, and State Highway 126 brings traffic into Gassville from the north (Missouri). Gassville's main industry, Mar-Bax Shirt Company, draws its employees from a trade area of about 70,000 persons. Nearest interstate highways are Interstate 44 in Missouri (80 miles north) and Interstate 40 (120 miles south).

Where Does Gassville Get its Name?

At the Gassville Centennial in June 2003, Joyce Acklin, a direct descendant of Mr. P.A. Cox related the story of how Gassville got its name. A post office was established in the town in 1878 with P.A. Cox as the postmaster. He was an incessant talker and was referred to by others as a "gasser" which eventually led to the town's name. This is the only Gassville in the United States. Gassville formally became a town in 1903. (From Baxter Bulletin newspaper 6/16/2003.)

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