Center Point is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Howard County, Arkansas Howard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,785. The county seat is Nashville. Howard County is Arkansas's 74th county, formed on April 17, 1873, and named for James Howard, a s ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 179.

History

When Howard County formed in 1873, Center Point was its first county seat. After the first

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in the county was built through

Nashville Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

—bypassing Center Point—the county seat was moved there in 1884.

Demographics

2020 census

Notable people

* Carl Boles, outfielder for the

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, was born in Center Point. * Eurith D. Rivers, the 68th Governor of Georgia, was born in Center Point. * Dorothy Shaver, born in Center Point in 1893, was the first woman in the United States to head a multimillion-dollar company,

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. * Robert G. Shaver, lawyer, colonel in Confederate States Army, and

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leader.

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References

Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Census-designated places in Howard County, Arkansas Census-designated places in Arkansas {{HowardCountyAR-geo-stub