Main city: Van Buren
Timezone: Central
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Southwestern Bell

Van Buren, the second largest city in the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area and the county seat of Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. The city is located directly northeast of Fort Smith at the Interstate 40 - Interstate 540 junction. The city was incorporated in 1842 and according to 2010 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 22,791, ranking it as the state's 22nd largest city, behind Searcy. ^source

Area code 479 is the telephone area code serving thirteen counties in northwest Arkansas, including the cities of Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville: the second, third, fourth, eighth and tenth-largest cities in the state, respectively. It was created in 2002 in a split from area code 501. ^source