Gosnell is a city in northern Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.

In the 1870s, a portion of the area east of what became the city of Gosnell was constituted as the North Sawba Cemetery.

[4] Much of the land between Blytheville and Big Lake was purchased in the late 1800s by Lemael W. Gosnell, a dentist and pioneer farmer.

It was reported that a large number of wild animals had fled from the eastern section of the county after a break in the levee resulted in flooding from the Mississippi River.

[9][10] In 1942, the U.S. Army came to Mississippi County to survey for land to construct a pilot training school.

[11] By June, Blytheville Army Airfield, a B-25 pilot training facility with three runways, was in operation.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Gosnell has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), all land.

The St. Francis Lowlands are a flat region mostly covered with row crop agriculture today, though also containing sand blows and sunken lands remaining from the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes.

[13] The Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which preserves some of the bottomland hardwood forest typical of this ecoregion prior to development for row agriculture, lies 6 miles (10 km) west of Gosnell.

Gosnell used to depend on the nearby Blytheville/Eaker Air Force Base but since its closing in the early 1990s, the city has lost many of its inhabitants.

The district and high school mascot and athletic emblem is the Pirate with the spirit colors of blue and gold.

The United States Postal Service operates one post office in Gosnell.

On April 16, 1998, an F4 tornado 10.1 miles (16.3 km) away from the city center killed two people and injured twelve and caused $350,000 in damages.

Major disasters (Presidential) declared: 7 Emergencies declared: 4 Causes of natural disasters: Storms: 6, Floods: 5, Tornadoes: 4, Winter Storms: 4, Hurricane: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).