Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Everton, AR

Everton is an incorporated town in southeastern Boone County, Arkansas, in the Ozarks, located on State Highway 206 southeast of Harrison.

Everton began as a stop on the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad and is one of thirty-three new communities that came to life because of the railroad, which reached Harrison in 1901.

James Logan Rush of Jasper bought seventy-five acres and had Everton platted in 1902; the railroad depot and post office established that year were probably named for a railroad executive or employee.

The town was incorporated on April 12, 1913, and by 1915 it boasted a bank, several general stores, two hotels, two flour mills, a drugstore, and a large hardware store.

Everton shipped locally grown cotton, produce, and eggs, as well as railroad ties and lumber, from its depot, and lead and zinc were mined nearby by the Everton Mining and Development Company.

A corn-cob pipe factory opened in Everton in 1923 and was turning out 6,000 pipes a day by the late 1930s, paying farmers more per pound for shelled cobs than for the corn itself; it closed in 1942.

Fires in December 1942 and April 1944 devastated Everton's downtown, destroying grocery stores, a restaurant, a barbershop, and other businesses.

Everton's school district was consolidated with Bellefonte and Valley Springs in 1948, and its 1939 WPA-built schoolhouse — sold to the Methodist congregation in 1949 — was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Everton's community center, built in 2005, was designed to resemble a railroad depot, recalling the town's railroad origins.

In 2024 Everton drew national attention when Florida businessman Leon Trammell, who grew up in the town, paid for a new fire station on the condition that it be named the Donald J. Trump Fire Station.