Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Georgetown, AR

Georgetown is a small town on the White River in the extreme southeastern corner of White County, Arkansas, about seventeen miles southeast of Searcy.

White County historians claim Georgetown is the oldest existing town in Arkansas and the second settlement established in the state after Arkansas Post, tracing its first permanent settler to 1789, before the Louisiana Purchase.

Because the earlier Arkansas Post community dissolved after the Civil War, Georgetown is regarded as the oldest continuously settled community in Arkansas.

Georgetown received its current name in 1909, honoring three men surnamed George from Clarendon who had bought, sold, and developed land in the town a few years earlier.

Despite its age, Georgetown did not incorporate until December 27, 1985.

The 2020 census counted just 81 residents in Georgetown's roughly 0.29 square miles.

Georgetown's population held nearly steady for decades — 126 people in both the 1990 and 2000 censuses and 124 in 2010 — before dropping to 81 in 2020.

The 2000 census counted 126 people in 55 households in Georgetown.

After World War II, many of Georgetown's shops closed as trade shifted to nearby Searcy, and the old river town settled into its present quiet character.