Hot Springs is a resort city in the confess of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The city is located in the Ouachita Mountains in the middle of the U.S. Interior Highlands, and is set among several natural warm springs for which the city is named. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a population of 37,930.

The center of Hot Springs is the oldest federal unfriendliness in the United States, today preserved as Hot Springs National Park. The hot spring water has been popularly believed for centuries to possess healing properties, and was a subject of legend in the course of several Native American tribes. Following federal sponsorship in 1832, the city developed into a flourishing spa town. Incorporated January 10, 1851, the city has been house to Major League Baseball spring training, illegal gambling, speakeasies and gangsters such as Al Capone, horse racing at Oaklawn Park, the Army and Navy Hospital, and 42nd President Bill Clinton. One of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the United States, the Assemblies of God, traces its beginnings to Hot Springs.

Much of Hot Springs’ history is preserved by various management entities. Hot Springs National Park is maintained by the National Park Service, including Bathhouse Row, which preserves the eight historic bathhouse buildings and gardens along Central Avenue. Downtown Hot Springs is preserved as the Central Avenue Historic District, listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. The city plus contains dozens of historic hotels and motor courts, built during the Great Depression in the Art Deco style. Due to the popularity of the thermal waters, Hot Springs benefited from sharp growth during a period later many cities proverb a sharp end in building; much considering Miami’s art deco districts. As a result, Hot Springs’s architecture is a key share of the city’s blend of cultures, including a reputation as a tourist town and a Southern city. Also a destination for the arts, Hot Springs features the Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, and the Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival annually.

Members of many Native American tribes had been accrual in the valley for untold numbers of years to enjoy the healing properties of the thermal springs.