Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Fox, AR

Fox is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Stone County, Arkansas, in the Ozark hills of north-central Arkansas.

Fox was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census, which counted 237 residents within its boundaries.

The community was originally called Smart, but when its post office opened in 1905 another name was required because Arkansas already had a Smart, so it was renamed Fox - a naming the community celebrated with a centennial in 2005.

Fox sits on Arkansas Highway 263 between Timbo and Rushing, with Turkey Creek flowing a few miles to the north and northeast and Jimmys Creek to the northwest.

At an elevation of 1,414 feet, Fox's hilltop site hosts several towers, most notably a radio tower for KFFB, the station based at Fairfield Bay.

Fox is home to Rural Special School, a K-12 campus on Highway 263 about two miles from the community center that serves Fox and the neighboring hill communities of Meadowcreek, Mozart, Parma, Rushing, Sunnyland, and Turkey Creek.

In July 2004, under Arkansas's Act 60 consolidation law, the tiny Rural Special district - with only about 200 students - was consolidated into the Mountain View School District, though the Rural Special campus remained open.

When the U.S. Postal Service moved to close the Fox post office in 2011, residents mounted one of the best-attended protests in Arkansas, and in May 2012 the USPS relented and kept the post office open with reduced hours.

Fox was the home of the first Catholic church in Stone County, before the church moved to Mountain View, the county seat and population center.

Community life in Fox centers on the Fox Country Store, open seven days a week, a park with a paved walking track, and a community building that once belonged to the American Legion; the Encyclopedia of Arkansas describes the wider Fox community as numbering about 763 people.