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We would like to provide the residents of  Blytheville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Blytheville Home page. The Blytheville Home page provides as much information as possible on Blytheville. Knowing Blytheville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Blytheville’s Home page, you will also find Blytheville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Blytheville has a population of 13735. 43% of Blytheville’s inhabitants are Male, and 57 are female. 42.7% of Blytheville is married and 48.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $91,110, and the average rent is $665. Household median income in Blytheville is $40,329, and the individual median income is $24,326. Blytheville’s Ethnic is the following: Black(62.4%), White(33.7%), Hispanic(4.3%), Multiple(1.9%), Other(0.9%), Asian(0.8%), Native(0.1%), Pacific(0.1%).


Blytheville was founded by Methodist clergyman Henry T. Blythe in 1879. It received a post office the same year, was incorporated in 1889, and became the county seat for the northern half of Mississippi County (Chickasawba District) in 1901. Blytheville received telephone service and electricity in 1903, and natural gas service in 1950.Forestry was an early industry, spurred by the massive harvesting of lumber needed to rebuild Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871.


The lumber industry brought sawmills and a rowdy crowd, and the area was known for its disreputable saloon culture during the 1880s and 1890s.The cleared forests enabled cotton farming to take hold, encouraged by ongoing levee building and waterway management; the population grew significantly after 1900.


On Blytheville's western edge lies one of the largest cotton gins in North America. Soybeans and rice have also become important crops.The area around Blytheville continues to be farmed, though family farms have given way to large factory operations.In the 1980s, Blytheville began to develop an industrial base, much of which centered on the steel industry. Until 1991, Blytheville was home to Blytheville Air Force Base (renamed Eaker Air Force Base in 1988), a major airfield that was part of the Strategic Air Command. James Sanders is Blytheville's mayor, the first African-American to serve in that position.


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