Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Beedeville, AR

Beedeville is a town in southeastern Jackson County on State Highway 37 near the Cache River.

William H. Beede, who arrived around 1866, was probably the first settler to occupy the current site of Beedeville; he helped organize the first public school in the area in 1880, and a Church of Christ was established near his home in 1878 and remains the town's only church.

A post office established in 1904 was named Plunkett for the first postmaster; in 1910 it was moved into the Beede store and the name was changed to Beedeville.

Four sawmills operated near Beedeville in the opening years of the twentieth century, drawn by the hardwood timber along the Cache River.

The McCrory and Beedeville Southern Railway was built to reach Beedeville's sawmills but fell seven miles short of the town and ceased operations in 1914, and a later railroad attempt fell two miles short, so Beedeville never got the rail connection its name promised.

By 1930 Beedeville had four stores, a cotton gin, and a barbershop, as well as a working sawmill that made saw handle blades.

Beedeville remained unincorporated until its citizens elected to incorporate as a town on November 7, 1963; its schools were desegregated in 1965 and its school district was consolidated into Newport's district in 1985.

An EF-1 tornado struck the Beedeville area on June 6, 2014, with winds in excess of 110 miles per hour, damaging an airplane hangar and destroying a shop but killing or injuring no one.

The 2020 census counted 84 people in Beedeville, down from 107 in 2010, and the 2000 census counted 105 people in 43 households; by the end of the twentieth century the principal crops around Beedeville were rice and soybeans.