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Located on Interstate 55, which parallels Arkansas' portion of the historic Great River Road, Blytheville is in the extreme northeast corner of Arkansas in Mississippi County. Host of the famous Springtime on the Mall and the Chili Cookoff. Blytheville is the home of the Ritz Civic Center, a renovated vaudeville Theater that is used for concerts, plays and special events. Blytheville was named for the Rev. Henry T. Blythe who came to the area in 1880. He laid out a tract of land in the Chickasawba District of Mississippi County which became a village.