Yellville, Arkansas. In the early 1800's when the first hunters and trappers came to Yellville, they found a Native village here, located around the present site of the American Legion Hut. The town grew slowly, the town site was well located on the banks of Crooked Creek, and the land was fertile. The town was for many years covered with cedar timber. Most of Yellville was destroyed by fire during the Civil War. For a long time, Yellville had neither courthouse, church, school, jail, nor even many homes. Yellville was rebuilt and incorporated as a town in 1872.
In the early 1930's, Yellville had the distinction of being the only town in the state with an all-woman city government. Mrs. Virge Walton was Mayor; O'Beta Carson was Treasurer; Lena Nowlin was Recorder.
Present day landmark, the Fred Berry Crooked Creek Nature Center is one of the nine Arkansas Game and Fish Nature Centers. The 421 Ozark acres that comprise FBCCNC lie in a 2.75-mile bend of Crooked Creek just above Kelley's access. The property, a former dairy farm, is now the site of a joint conservation education project between the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. A generous donation by retired Yellville-Summit schoolteacher and counselor, Fred Berry, set the project in motion in 1999. Donations from Berry, and others, provided the land, education building, pavilion and other improvements. The center was opened and dedicated on June 17, 2005.
The weather climate in the area is fairly mild; however, some winters can bring extreme cold with ice and springtime can bring some heavy rains at times. Summers can get quite hot and humid. With these conditions, water damage restoration as well as fire damage restoration needs exist. The local SERVPRO franchise offers services for water and fire damage restoration. The professional SERVPRO technicians have the backing of a national brand recognized for over five decades. Rest assured that SERVPRO is ready to make it "Like it never even happened."
