Centerton is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. Located west of Bentonville upon Highway 102, Centerton has grown from a railroad stop and fruit orchard community in the before 20th century into a suburban bedroom community within the sharply growing Northwest Arkansas (NWA) region. The city’s population has grown from 491 in 1990 to 16,244 in 2019. Centerton is considered to be one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas and consistently ranks amongst the most safest cities in the state.

Native American hunters and yet to be settlers were drawn to present-day Centerton by natural springs, including what is now known as McKissick Spring. In the Antebellum South era, an to the front church and teacher built along the spring were named Center Point, for the community’s central location in Benton County. Though the Place did not see any formal function during the Civil War, Union troops camped at McKissick Spring on March 5, 1862, shortly before the Battle of Pea Ridge.

After the Reconstruction era, the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad Company associated Rogers, Arkansas and Grove, Oklahoma through western Benton County. The railroad opened the apple and strawberry orchards of the county to additional markets, bringing economic prosperity, development, and population bump to the region. Upon laying out the town in 1900, the publish was misrepresented to Centerton, as Center Point was already registered in Howard County.

Centerton is located close the middle of Benton County at 36°21′42″N 94°17′12″W / 36.36167°N 94.28667°W / 36.36167; -94.28667 (36.361541, -94.286543). Arkansas Highway 102 runs through the center of the city and leads east 5 miles (8 km) to Bentonville and west 11 miles (18 km) to Decatur.