Their bodies were brought for embalming to a furniture store in Arcadia which also served as a funeral parlor.

Enormous crowds of onlookers descended upon the city when news of the pair's deaths there became public.

[citation needed] In 2009 the company, facing bankruptcy, announced that it would close most of its Louisiana operations, including plants in Arcadia, Athens, Choudrant, and Farmerville; these operations were estimated to have provided a combined 1,300 jobs.

[11] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.1 square miles (7.9 km2), all land.

At the 2019 American Community Survey, Arcadia had a population of 2,774 people and 1,469 housing units.

About 41.9% of the population lived at or below the poverty line, and 17.5% of Arcadia's citizens held a bachelor's degree or higher.

The Bienville Parish Courthouse was formerly located in a residential section of Arcadia but moved in 2013 to a newly constructed building off Interstate 20.

The Arcadia-Bienville Parish Airport is located two nautical miles (2.3 mi; 3.7 km) southwest of Arcadia's central business district.

[18] The Bienville Parish Council on Aging provides public transit for the general population to locations within the town or close by, operating on an as-needed basis.