Batesville

Batesville, city, seat (1821) of Independence county, north-central Arkansas, U.S., about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Little Rock. It lies in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains on the White River. The land on which the city is built once belonged to the Osage Indians, who ceded the territory to the United States in an 1808 treaty. Named for James W. Bates, a judge and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Territory of...