Crossett is the largest city in Ashley County, Arkansas, United States, with a population of 5,507, according to 2010 Census Bureau estimates. Combined taking into account North Crossett and West Crossett, the population is 10,752. Crossett was incorporated in 1903.

There are four properties on Main Street in Crossett listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as competently as the Crossett Experimental Forest, located 7 mi (11 km) south.

Edward Savage Crossett (1828–1910) moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1875. He became a supporter of the trading answer of Renwick, Shaw and Crossett. In 1882, Crossett made his first investment in a southern pine forest. In 1886 he sold his immersion in the Renwick business, taking 10,000 acres of Arkansas land covered in tawny pines in payment. With fellow Iowans Charles Warner Gates and Dr. John Wenzel Watzek as investors in 1899, the Crossett Lumber Company was organized. Crossett was elected vice president of the intervention at its organizational meeting. Charles Gates’ brother, Edgar Woodward “Cap” Gates, was sent to southern Arkansas to oversee construction of the Mills and a further community, which his friends named in tribute of Edward Savage Crossett.

The Crossett Lumber Company was usual in 1899 behind a small sawmill. The sawmill had a main steam engine, boiler, and muggy metal objective shafts and pulleys for sawing logs and lumber. The Mississippi River, Hamburg and Western Railroad (MRH&WR) reached Crossett on May 7, 1902. The first large pine mill began operation in 1902. The company built houses, schools and churches for the workers and their families. In 1903, all of this was incorporated as the company town of Crossett. The second large pine mill opened in 1905. By 1904, the Crossett Lumber Company had built the other village of Crossett for its workforce. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&PR) reached Crossett on March 10, 1907. The Arkansas, Louisiana and Gulf Railroad (AL&GR) reached Crossett on October 1, 1908.