Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Biggers, AR

Biggers is a small town in the lowlands of southeastern Randolph County, located on the Current River near Cherokee Bay.

The land where Biggers stands was once part of a large plantation owned by Thomas Stevenson Drew, who served as a governor of Arkansas.

The town is named for Benjamin Franklin Bigger, who in 1889 bought land at the town site, established a ferry crossing over the Current River, and built a distillery.

A railroad depot was established at Biggers in 1901 with the completion of the Southern Missouri and Arkansas Railroad, later part of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway.

Biggers was incorporated on February 18, 1903.

The Current River passes through the northern part of town, shaping the community's history of ferries, fishing, and river trade.

The original route of U.S. Highway 67 once ran through Biggers along what is now Biggers-Reyno Road, before the town was bypassed by the modern highway southeast of town.

Biggers reached its peak population of 466 in the 1930 census; the 2020 census counted 305 residents.

One of the area's important early landowners was Coleman C. Scott, an African American farmer whose holdings made him a notable figure in the Biggers community.

Depression-era hard times forced the Bank of Biggers and other Biggers businesses to relocate to Pocahontas, the Randolph County seat, in the 1930s.