Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Bluff City, AR

Bluff City is a small town on State Highway 24 in eastern Nevada County, Arkansas, and it is part of the Hope micropolitan statistical area.

The Caddo people lived in the region long before European settlement, and a treaty in 1835 removed the Caddo from Arkansas.

In April 1864, Federal troops under General Frederick Steele were ambushed by Confederate forces at nearby Poison Spring — the only Civil War event to take place in the Bluff City area.

A post office was established at Bluff City in 1876, and an early boarding school there drew students from several counties who boarded with local families.

An 1890 Goodspeed history described Bluff City as 'a post-hamlet about eighteen miles southeast of Prescott,' but by 1912 the town had grown to include stores, churches, barbershops, drugstores, a school, and four physicians.

Bluff City's school district was consolidated with Prescott's school district in 1951 as the town's businesses declined after Highway 24 improved travel to larger communities.

Land near Bluff City claimed by the federal government in 1937 for a resettlement colony for destitute farm families later became White Oak Lake, created when the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission dammed White Oak Creek in 1961.

White Oak Lake State Park opened along the lake's shoreline in 1967, and Bluff City also sits near Poison Springs Battleground State Park.

Bluff City was incorporated on August 29, 1966.

The town peaked at 292 residents in the 1980 census and has declined since, recording 124 people in 2010 and 118 in the 2020 census across its 2.32 square miles.