East Camden is a city in Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 931 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Camden Micropolitan Statistical Area. East Camden was originally called Billkitts Rental Housing and began as a planned community created to hold the easy to get to Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot.

As he did for the dismount of the facility, the depot’s Chief Maintenance Engineer, A.T. Smith, designed the general layout of the town and named its streets. U.S. Senator John Little McClellan highly developed arranged for Smith, who boasted the most intimate knowledge of the depot, to travel to Washington D.C. and negotiate “over White House tea” with Lyndon B. Johnson to transfer ownership of the sprawling NAD highbrow to Johnson’s Brown and Root.

Brown and Root’s Highland Resources would far ahead transform the depot into an industrial park catering primarily to explanation contractors who could be enticed by the local eight-mile (13 km) long rocket range, the immense array of underground storage bunkers, highly specialized building infrastructure, low cost of labor and excellent railroad system. As allocation of the transfer agreement, the Brown Foundation furthermore donated 70 acres (280,000 m) of home and six buildings to avow a two-year puzzling college now known as Southern Arkansas University Tech.

East Camden is located at 33°36′27″N 92°44′30″W / 33.60750°N 92.74167°W / 33.60750; -92.74167 (33.607429, -92.741740).