Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Emmet, AR

Emmet is a second-class city lying mostly in western Nevada County, with about one-third of the town — including the part containing Ephesus Cemetery — extending west into Hempstead County.

Emmet sits at the intersection of U.S. Highway 67 and Arkansas Highway 299 in the Arkansas Timberlands of southwest Arkansas, halfway between Prescott, the Nevada County seat, and Hope, and is part of the greater Ark-La-Tex region.

The community began as Burkville, but after the Cairo and Fulton Railroad was completed through the town site on August 12, 1873, the name was changed to Emmet in 1874, with Alfred Eaves as the first postmaster.

The town was surveyed and platted in 1873 by Emmet Elgin, an Irish employee of the railroad.

Emmet was incorporated on May 5, 1883.

By 1884, the young railroad town contained a steam sawmill, two churches, and a school, and local farmers shipped fruit and vegetables out by rail.

Emmet was at one time home to a carriage factory and to a historic Western-style village, portions of which were later donated to the city and redeveloped into a city park and a public meeting building after the village closed in the early 1970s.

The oldest marked burial in Emmet's Ephesus Cemetery dates to 1876.

The 2020 census counted 415 residents in Emmet, down from its peak of 518 in 2010.

Emmet covers 1.44 square miles of gently rolling hills, prairie, and timberland in southwest Arkansas.