Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Forrest City, AR

Forrest City is a city in St. Francis County and the county seat of St. Francis County, located on the western slope of Crowley's Ridge in eastern Arkansas, and it calls itself the 'Jewel of the Delta.'

Forrest City is named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general who later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan; it is the only city in the world named for him that is spelled with two Rs.

After the Civil War, Forrest contracted to finish the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad across Crowley's Ridge, beginning work in 1866 with approximately 1,000 Irish laborers, and the town grew from the commissary he built on Front Street.

Forrest City's thirty-six-block town site was platted on March 1, 1869, by county surveyor John C. Hill near the commissary site, and the city was incorporated on May 11, 1870.

Train service through Forrest City began in 1868, before the town was even platted.

Forrest City became the St. Francis County seat in 1874, when it replaced Madison; when Madison's citizens refused to surrender the county records, a party from Forrest City went there one evening and took the safe containing them.

The 2020 census counted 13,015 people in Forrest City in 4,016 households, down from 15,371 in 2010.

Forrest City hosts the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Federal Correctional Complex, Forrest City, a major local employer, and the headquarters of Woodruff Electric Cooperative.

East Arkansas Community College is located in Forrest City, and its Fine Arts Center, opened in April 2010, is a 33,000-square-foot facility described as one of only three Class A performance halls in Arkansas.

Village Creek State Park, Arkansas's largest state park at more than 7,000 acres, lies about 13 miles north of Forrest City on Crowley's Ridge, with Lakes Dunn and Austell and the 27-hole Ridges at Village Creek golf course designed by Andy Dye.