Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Sherrill, AR

Sherrill is a tiny incorporated town in Plum Bayou Township, Jefferson County, standing on Arkansas Highway 15 between Altheimer and England.

Sherrill owes its existence to a land bargain: planter J. M. Barrett donated about sixty acres of land, worth roughly $10,000, to the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (the Cotton Belt) so its branch line would run through his property.

A depot was built and the town was surveyed in 1887, taking its name from local physician Dr. Albert Rush Sherrill; a post office followed in 1890.

Although the townsite dates to 1887, Sherrill did not incorporate as a town until May 25, 1935.

Antioch Baptist Church, founded in 1868 by Louis Mazique for the area's African-American community, established a cemetery that is now on the National Register of Historic Places, and by 1920 its congregation had built what is believed to be the first school building for African-American children in Jefferson County.

The town's Methodist church building, completed in 1910 on the site of an 1895 church, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1899 Sherrill had a brief gold scare when yellow metal was unearthed while a well was being dug near Dr. Sherrill's house — newspapers in Pine Bluff and Little Rock reported it on May 10, 1899, but no gold was ever found again.

Sherrill peaked at 263 residents in the 1950 census; the 2020 census counted only 53 people, down from 84 people in 37 households in 2010.

The whole town covers just 0.13 square miles of Arkansas River valley farmland.

Sherrill is part of the Pine Bluff Micropolitan Statistical Area and is governed by a part-time town government that oversees road maintenance and water service.