Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Alix, AR

Alix is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Arkansas, located on Arkansas Highway 186 about 1.5 miles east of the town of Denning.

Alix was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which recorded a population of 100, and it is the only census-designated place in Franklin County.

In the 2020 census, 86 of Alix's 100 residents identified as white alone, 11 as multiracial, and 3 as Hispanic or Latino.

Postal records date the opening of the Alix post office to 1906, and the community still has its own post office today.

Alix developed as a coal camp in the Arkansas River Valley coal field near Coal Hill; a 1921 county history describes the railroad building a detour out to 'Alix, another coal camp.'

A 1934 Interstate Commerce Commission report documents a ten-track Missouri Pacific Railroad yard at Alix, on the Van Buren District line between Van Buren and North Little Rock, where a fatal side collision between two portions of the same freight train occurred on August 23, 1934.

Alix sits at an elevation of about 400 feet in the Arkansas River Valley of western Arkansas.

Alix lies in Franklin County, which was formed on December 19, 1837, from Crawford County and named for Benjamin Franklin; it is one of the few Arkansas counties with two county seats, Ozark and Charleston, and had 17,097 residents in the 2020 census.

Alix Township is a dry township: while Franklin County generally permits alcohol sales, they are prohibited in Alix and Prairie townships.

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas cites Alix as an example of a 'sundown town,' reporting that around 1970 the community allegedly posted a sign warning African Americans not to let the sun go down on them there.