Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Ogden, AR

Ogden is a city in Little River County on the highway that connects Fort Smith to Texarkana, once an agricultural center for surrounding cotton farms and now a quiet residential community.

Settlers first began arriving in the Red River valley around Ogden around 1838, and John Nunneley was the first landowner in what now is Ogden.

M. W. Bates arrived around 1878 and named the settlement Ogden, the maiden name of his second wife; Bates served as Little River County judge from 1884 to 1888 and owned the first cotton gin, the first sawmill, and the first store in the community.

A post office opened in Ogden in 1891, and a Methodist church organized in 1892 hosted a school with seven students.

The first permanent road built under Arkansas's 1915 Alexander Road Improvement Act was the road from Ashdown to Ogden and Richmond, about 15 miles long and costing about $60,000; it eventually became U.S. Highway 71.

Ogden was incorporated on April 10, 1920, after highway traffic had increased business in the town.

A brick schoolhouse was erected in Ogden in 1915, high school students were bused to Ashdown as early as 1927, and the Ogden school district was consolidated with Ashdown in 1947.

The highway through Ogden was paved in 1940 and carried heavy use until a bypass east of the city was created around 1970, and in 2013 the old highway segment was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a well-preserved stretch of 1940s concrete highway.

The 2020 census counted 131 people in Ogden, down from 180 in 2010, and the 2000 census counted 214 people in 89 households.

Palmetto Flats Wildlife Management Area is located a few miles west of Ogden.