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==History== Yellville is named after [[Archibald Yell]], who was the first member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from Arkansas and the second [[governor of Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19701015&id=XzIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7216,2930074&hl=en |title=From Sleepy Eye to Chicken Bristle, USA |work=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |date=October 15, 1970 |access-date=April 22, 2015 |author=Scriba, Jay |archive-date=September 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925015124/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19701015&id=XzIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7216,2930074&hl=en |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was killed at the [[Battle of Buena Vista]] during the [[Mexican–American War]]. Yellville existed well before Arkansas became a state, though originally known as "Shawneetown". Marion County was formed in 1836, shortly after statehood. Shawneetown was then renamed Yellville. An old tale claims Archibald Yell offered $50 to do so, but never paid the money. True or not, Governor Yell's descendants heard the story and paid the overdue "bill" several years ago. Yell's name can be seen elsewhere in the state, including [[Yell County, Arkansas|Yell County]] and Archibald Yell Boulevard in [[Fayetteville, Arkansas|Fayetteville]]. Several biographies of him have been written, the most recent published by the [[University of Arkansas]] Press in Fayetteville. During the late 1840s, Yellville was the scene of several prolonged gunfights during the [[Tutt–Everett War]]. John A. Schnabel organized his [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] cavalry battalion in the town in 1863. In the early morning of July 17th, 2024; Marion County received just under a foot of rainfall in a considerable flash flooding event. During the event, bridges and homes were reportedly washed out in Yellville, including a nursing home due to the high waters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oberholtz |first=Chris |date=2024-07-17 |title=Arkansas nursing home evacuates 86 people amid Flash Flood Emergency |url=https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/yellville-marion-county-rain-flood |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=FOX Weather |language=en-US}}</ref> [[National Weather Service|The National Weather Service]] in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] promptly issued a Flash Flood Emergency for Yellville and surrounding areas.<ref>{{Cite web |last=herzmann |first=daryl |title=IEM :: Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) App |url=https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/ |archive-url=https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/#2024-O-NEW-KLZK-FF-W-0046/USCOMP-N0Q-202407171125 |archive-date=2024-07-17 |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=mesonet.agron.iastate.edu |language=en}}</ref> Yellville is still recovering from the flooding impacts.
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