[3] It is the northern terminus of the Arkansas segment of the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, a National Scenic Byway.

[4] The town was named after James A. Piggott, one of the early settlers and initiator of the local post office.

This ridge is a naturally occurring phenomenon created over millennia by wind-blown periglacial loess and possibly by seismic activity in the region.

[12] The schools offer several extracurricular activities for students including athletics, band, and various clubs and organizations.

The athletic program includes boys' football, tennis, basketball, baseball, golf, and track and field.

Girls' sports include basketball, volleyball, tennis, softball, track and field, and golf.

After meeting and marrying in Paris in the late 1920s, Hemingway and Pauline made frequent and lengthy visits to her parents' home in Piggott, where Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of A Farewell to Arms, and other works.

The Piggott Post Office is the home of an oil-on-canvas mural "Air Mail" painted in 1941 by Dan Rhodes and funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, a New Deal public art program.