Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Holland, AR

Holland is a small city in Faulkner County located eighteen miles northeast of Conway on Arkansas Highway 287.

The origin of Holland's name is uncertain, but local tradition holds that it was named for a hunter and trapper who camped near Lavender Springs along the old Little Rock–Clinton Road.

Settlers began homesteading the Holland area in the 1820s, clearing the heavily forested land to raise corn and cotton.

Holland's first post office was established in 1878 with Jesse B. Garrett as its first postmaster, and when the office closed in 1939 the community's mail was rerouted to Vilonia.

The area's first church, Oakland Chapel Methodist Church, was established in 1849, and Palestine Baptist Church, founded by four families in 1869, was renamed Holland Baptist Church in 1931.

Holland was not incorporated until November 18, 1998, when growth and crime in the area persuaded residents they needed a formal city government.

The 2020 census counted 586 people in Holland, up from 557 in 2010, and the 2000 census had recorded 577 people in 217 households.

Holland's early subscription schools, including the Frog Pond School, were consolidated at Holland around 1900, and a six-room brick schoolhouse completed in 1928 later hosted county basketball tournaments in its WPA-built gymnasium.

Holland's last high school class graduated in 1948 and its elementary classes ended in 1954; today Holland lies in the Greenbrier School District and has no schools of its own.

Arch W. Ford, who later became director of the Arkansas Department of Education, once served as superintendent of the Holland school.