Dora is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Crawford County in the western part of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

[2] It is located approximately three miles west of Van Buren on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border along Interstate 40.

The community is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Dora shares its ZIP code (72956) and other municipal services with Van Buren.

[3] Dora had its start when the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway was extended to that point.