Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in LaGrange, AR

LaGrange is a tiny incorporated town in southern Lee County, in the Arkansas Delta, located between Marianna, the county seat, and Helena-West Helena, near the St. Francis National Forest lands at the southern end of Crowley's Ridge.

Its French name translates as 'the farm,' and LaGrange appears to be one of the earliest settlements in this part of Lee County.

LaGrange was a comparatively sizable village in the nineteenth century — the census counted 153 residents in 1880 and a peak of 216 in 1890 — but it shrank steadily through the twentieth century.

The 2020 census counted just 52 residents in LaGrange, down from 89 in 2010 and 122 in 2000, making it one of the least populous incorporated towns in Arkansas.

The entire town covers only 0.15 square miles, all of it land, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Remarkably, LaGrange did not incorporate as a town until July 24, 1984 — more than a century after its nineteenth-century heyday — apparently so that residents could establish basic services such as paved roads and a water and sewer system.

By the 2010 census, the post office was the only business operating in LaGrange.