Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Vilonia, AR

Vilonia is a city in southeastern Faulkner County in Central Arkansas, part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway metropolitan area, about 13 miles east of Conway, the county seat.

Vilonia was settled in the 1860s in what was listed as Cypress Township, and settlers named it Vilsonia, meaning 'land of two valleys' — but a transcription error in the local Masons' national affiliation application dropped the 's,' officially leaving the town as Vilonia.

Vilonia was incorporated on August 23, 1938, under the leadership of Mayor Thomas Henry Hill.

The 2020 census counted 4,288 people in 1,432 households in Vilonia, the product of rapid suburban growth that lifted the city from just 259 residents in 1940 and 2,106 in 2000.

Vilonia is a notably young community — the 2020 census found a median age of 33.5 years, with 31.7 percent of residents under the age of 18 and nearly half of all households including children.

On the evening of April 25, 2011, a high-end EF2 tornado tore through the Vilonia area, destroying a mobile home park community and killing at least four people.

Almost exactly three years later, on April 27, 2014, a violent EF4 tornado that had struck Mayflower continued into Vilonia, killing 16 people in the area, sweeping homes off their foundations, throwing a 15-ton fertilizer tank three-quarters of a mile, and destroying the brand-new Vilonia Intermediate School before it could open.

President Barack Obama visited Vilonia on May 7, 2014, to view the tornado damage and reconstruction efforts, accompanied by Governor Mike Beebe.

After the 2014 disaster the city adopted the 'Reinventing Vilonia' plan developed with the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, using public green spaces and distributed tornado shelters to guide the town's rebuilding.

Public school students in Vilonia attend the Vilonia School District, which leads to graduation from Vilonia High School.