Plumerville

History

Plumerville began as Plummer's Station, a stage station on the Fort Smith to Memphis branch of the Butterfield Overland Mail. The old downtown area of Plumerville was completely destroyed by fire in 1987. The old town jail or "calaboose" (built circa 1880) still stands intact on Springfield Street near the new city hall. John Middleton Clayton (October 13, 1840 – January 29, 1889) was a Republican carpetbagger to Arkansas, originally from Pennsylvania. He was also the younger brother of Powell Clayton, a Governor of Arkansas. In 1871, John Clayton was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing Jefferson County, and in 1873 he served in the Arkansas Senate representing Jefferson, Bradley, Grant and Lincoln counties, also serving as Speaker of the Senate pro tempore for part of his term. He is best remembered today from his mysterious assassination in 1889. In 1888, he ran for the office of Arkansas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, going up against incumbent Democrat Clifton R. Breckinridge. The election became one of the most fraudulent in Arkansas' history. Clayton lost the election by a margin of 846 votes of over 34,000 votes cast. However, in one case in Conway County, four masked, armed white men stormed into a predominantly black voting precinct and, at gunpoint, stole the ballot box that contained a large majority of votes for Clayton. Losing under such circumstances, Clayton decided to contest the election and went to Plumerville to start an investigation on the matter. On the evening of January 29, 1889, an unknown assailant shot through the window to the room he…

Geography

Plumerville is located in southern Conway County at (35.160896, -92.642794), along U.S. Route 64, which leads east to Menifee and west to Morrilton, the county seat. Interstate 40 passes through the northern edge of the city with access from one exit and leads southeast to Little Rock and west to Fort Smith. According to the United States Census Bureau, Plumerville has a total area of , of which , or 1.39%, is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  2,427
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,273
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,880
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  1,823
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  1,669
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,568
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,543
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,440

Largest nearby schools

• MORRILTON SR. HIGH SCHOOL
  High · MORRILTON · 751 students · 9.5:1 ratio
• MORRILTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
  Middle · MORRILTON · 549 students · 15.3:1 ratio
• MORRILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · MORRILTON · 439 students · 19.1:1 ratio
• MORRILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  Middle · MORRILTON · 370 students · 13.2:1 ratio
• MORRILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · MORRILTON · 350 students · 17.5:1 ratio
• UACCM TECHNICAL CENTER
  High · MORRILTON

Most recent

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• M 2.65 — 2017-07-22
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• M 2.76 — 2016-07-28
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