Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Mayflower, AR

Mayflower is a small city in southern Faulkner County, Arkansas, sitting on the southwestern edge of Lake Conway along Interstate 40 between Conway and Little Rock.

The area's first European settlers were Loyalist families such as the Flannagins and Massengills, who arrived around 1778 and settled near the mouth of Palarm Creek after fleeing the Revolutionary War.

Mayflower grew slowly around farming and the railroad in the Arkansas River bottoms before it was incorporated as a town on March 6, 1928.

The completion of the 6,700-acre Lake Conway in 1951 put Mayflower on the map as a fishing destination, and the lake remains central to the town's identity.

Interstate 40 was built through Mayflower in 1965, tying the town tightly to Conway, the county seat about ten miles north, and to Little Rock, about twenty miles southeast.

The 2020 census counted 1,984 people in Mayflower, down from a peak of 2,234 in 2010, living in 837 households.

Mayflower counted 950 housing units in 2020, and its median resident age of 44.8 years reflects its character as a quiet, largely residential community.

On March 29, 2013, Mayflower made national news when ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured near town, spilling thousands of barrels of heavy crude oil and forcing the evacuation of 22 homes.

Barely a year later, on April 27, 2014, Mayflower was struck by a violent EF4 tornado, the same storm that went on to devastate nearby Vilonia.

Most of Mayflower is served by the Mayflower School District, while a small northern slice of the city attends Conway Public Schools.