Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Adona, AR

Adona is a small city on Arkansas Highway 10 in northern Perry County.

Adona is humorously described as 'the first city in Arkansas' because of its place at the head of alphabetical lists of the state's communities and because of its ZIP code, 72001.

The settlement was first called Cypress Valley, after Cypress Creek, but when its post office was established in 1879 that name was rejected, and the office was instead named Adona, the first name of a descendant of John Howell, the community's first permanent resident.

The Choctaw and Memphis Railroad was built through Adona in 1900 and a depot followed in 1901, turning the community into a railroad town that prospered on the timber industry.

Adona was incorporated in 1903, the same year a new school was built for the growing town.

The Fort Smith Lumber Company operated its Fowler Mill at Adona with a narrow-gauge logging railroad just two feet, six inches wide — the narrowest railroad in Arkansas.

Fowler Mill's contract physician, Dr. T. W. Hardison, persuaded the lumber company to spare the rugged Seven Hollows area of Petit Jean Mountain from logging, a decision credited with inspiring the creation of Arkansas's state park system.

Adona's population peaked at 241 in the 1920 census; the 2020 census counted 149 residents, down from 209 in 2010, in a city of about 0.95 square miles.

Adona is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area despite its rural setting.

Cypress Creek Park, a campground in Adona that draws visitors headed to nearby Petit Jean State Park, has hosted bluegrass and folk music concerts since 1981.