Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Dermott, AR

Dermott is a city in the northwest corner of Chicot County in Arkansas's Delta region, where Bayou Bartholomew touches the city's southwest corner and U.S. Route 165 and Arkansas Highway 35 carry traffic through town.

The town grew from a bayou settlement begun in the early 1840s and was named for Dr. Charles McDermott, who first visited the area in 1834.

Dermott was incorporated on August 20, 1890, and it boomed as a railroad town in the 1880s on an economy of cotton agriculture and timber.

Dermott's population peaked at 4,731 in the 1980 census, but the 2020 census counted 2,021 people in 856 households — fewer than half the residents of its peak years.

During World War II, Dermott was the site of one of several Arkansas camps that held German prisoners of war.

The Dermott Crawfish Festival, held on the third weekend of May, was one of the oldest festivals in Arkansas before the Chamber of Commerce ended it in 2012; residents replaced it with the Dermott Community Festival.

Dermott High School's Mighty Rams, wearing orange and black, won Arkansas state boys' basketball championships in 1986, 1989, 1991, and 1994.

The Rams' first title team in 1986 finished a perfect 35–0 season and captured the state's overall championship under coaches Willie Parker and Leroy Kennedy.

Dermott is the hometown of visual artist Larry D. Alexander, who for a decade closed his Arkansas school tours with a two-day exhibit at the town's Crawfish Festival.

Public library service in Dermott comes from the Dermott Branch Library, operated by the Southeast Arkansas Public Library system, and the city also has its own Dermott Municipal Airport.