What’s Piggott Arkansas like ?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Arkansas/comments/1j4wv27/whats_piggott_arkansas_like/

created by Kindly-Mix-5000 on 06/03/2025 at 14:37 UTC

20 upvotes, 15 top-level comments (showing 15)

Anyone know what Piggott Arkansas is like ? How’s the crime rates / school system? Community?

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Comment by tomatocultivator1958 at 06/03/2025 at 16:17 UTC

55 upvotes, 6 direct replies

From there originally, left after high school. It is a small rural town. Good things that set it apart from other towns its size (about 3,500) it has a small community hospital that the town helps support with a local sales tax. Local doctors, with weekly or monthly clinics at the hospital for specialists. It has a small museum, Hemingway-Pfeiffer. Earnest Hemingway married a woman from Piggott and lived there off and on for about 10-13 years. It is set right on the edge of Crowleys Ridge, a small hill system that runs Southwest to Northeast for couple hundred miles. Half the town flat as a pancake from basically being on the Mississippi delta and other half rolling hills. Can't say that it is picturesque, but not as bad looking as a lot of other delta towns.

School system is ok, with elementary school having many teachers who I went to school with and many of them very bright and good people, but it is so small and isolated that the high school is missing a lot of options in education and even some necessities, such as not being able to get a math teacher for more advanced math (Algebra II, geometry, calculus, etc.) Last I heard math for those type classes was done with distance learning.

It is not very diverse, but probably like a lot of the US becoming slowly more so. The county is dry, no liquor wine or beer. Nearest liquor store is about 20 miles away. Having left I have no desire to move back, but I have friends there and even know a doctor that moved away, worked in big city and moved back to continue practicing there.

There is a small nine hole golf course, public swimming pool, some new public tennis courts and a couple of ok city parks.

No big stores, no walmart in town, no McDonalds (one there closed a few years ago). There are a couple of medium size grocery stores. There is, or was , one traffic signal in town. It may have increased or totally gone away now.

Can't imagine anyone moving there unless they have some new job that requires it, but it is no worse than most small towns and probably a little better.

Comment by TannyBoguss at 06/03/2025 at 15:56 UTC*

16 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I’ve been to a ton of similar small towns and didn’t expect much. Was pleasantly surprised by Piggott. It was the 4th of July and the parade and fair had a big turnout. Really felt a sense of community. Don’t know how many other commenters have actually visited or are just trying to dunk on small Arkansas towns.

Comment by Capercaillie at 06/03/2025 at 20:15 UTC

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It's just like Corning, but more so.

Comment by Diligent_Squash_7521 at 06/03/2025 at 18:51 UTC

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I spent many summers there on my grandfather’s farm. Still have 80 acres in the family. Still love going there.

Comment by tnhowlingdog at 06/03/2025 at 23:05 UTC

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It’s a dot on a map. Driven thru it more times than I can count. Keep going.

Comment by Throwaway_09298 at 06/03/2025 at 16:45 UTC

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I haven't heard that name in a while. I just remember my dad saying we aren't stopping there while growing up on the trips to Chicago

Comment by _Rice_and_Beans_ at 06/03/2025 at 16:25 UTC

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Exactly like you’d think.

Comment by RMBMama at 06/03/2025 at 23:32 UTC

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Well Ernest Hemingway lived there for a short while. It's got that going for it.

To be fair, it's been a long time since I was in Piggott. We would drive through it going from and then back to Chicago when I was a kid.

Comment by crazyelvisfan22 at 06/03/2025 at 15:36 UTC

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Piggott has the Hemingway-Pfeiffer museum

Comment by magictiger at 07/03/2025 at 07:22 UTC

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It sounds like something a British person would say as derogatory slang. “Well it looks a bit Piggott, in’it?”

Comment by rhodestracey at 06/03/2025 at 15:37 UTC

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100 years in the past

Comment by g11n at 06/03/2025 at 15:54 UTC

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Lots of meth

Comment by superdupermensch at 06/03/2025 at 15:40 UTC

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Exactly what you would expect. The highlight of the week is going to the nearest walmart on Saturday and the churches are full on Sunday. Throw in some incest and meth and voila!