Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Springtown, AR

Springtown is a small incorporated town in western Benton County in Northwest Arkansas, sitting between Gentry and Highfill about eighteen miles southwest of Bentonville, the county seat.

The town is named for the natural spring at its site — the spring that gives rise to Flint Creek.

Charles Kincheloe built the first house in what is now Springtown in 1841, and Isaac Dial soon afterward built a house near the spring itself.

A post office served the area from 1856 under the name Hickory; the town was platted in 1871, and the office carried the Springtown name until the post office finally closed in 1998.

According to Goodspeed's 1889 history of Benton County, Springtown then had a grocery and hardware store, a drugstore, a hotel, a steam grist mill and sawmill, two blacksmiths, two shoemakers, three doctors, and three churches.

Springtown was regarded as a boom town in the 1880s, but when the Kansas City Southern Railroad was built three miles to the west, many businesses and residents relocated, helping to create the community that became the city of Gentry.

A fire heavily damaged Springtown on October 16, 1908, and the following year the town incorporated, on June 7, 1909.

Springtown's census counts have hovered around one hundred people for a century — 97 in 1930, 104 in 1940, 114 in 2000, 87 in 2010, and 83 in the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Springtown's 114 residents lived in just 41 households, with an average household size of 2.78 people.

The town covers only 0.54 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of about 1,204 feet.