Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Anthonyville, AR

Anthonyville is a small town on State Highway 147 in southern Crittenden County that exists largely as a bedroom community for the greater Memphis, Tennessee, area.

The town is named for Solon Anthony and his relatives; members of the Anthony family bought the townsite land in installments from a Memphis cotton merchant in the early 1900s.

The settlement appeared on late-20th-century maps as the 'Andy Subdivision' before its residents decided to incorporate.

Anthonyville did not incorporate as a town until December 15, 1999.

Anthonyville has never had a post office, a school, or a railroad depot of its own.

The town covers only about 0.08 square miles, yet its population density exceeds 1,700 people per square mile.

The 2020 census counted 135 residents in Anthonyville, down from 161 in 2010 and 250 in 2000.

Anthonyville's population is largely African American: about 94 percent of residents identified as Black or African American in the 2020 census.

In the 2000 census, Anthonyville's 250 residents lived in 82 households.

Arkansas Highway 147 forms Anthonyville's eastern boundary and leads north nine miles to Interstate 40 and south seven miles to the Horseshoe Lake area.