Arkansas County, located in southeast Arkansas, has two county seats—DeWitt and Stuttgart. It is one of the ...

  Ashley County is located in southeast Arkansas and is part of both the Mississippi Alluvial and West Gu...

  Governor Elisha Baxter formed Baxter County as the sixty-eighth county in Arkansas just prior to the Br...

Located in the northwest corner of Arkansas, Benton County borders Missouri and Oklahoma and is part of the Oz...

Located in the Ozark Mountain highlands, Boone County has endured struggles from its creation. Political, raci...

  Bradley County, located in southern Arkansas in the West Gulf Coastal Plain, has become known nationall...

Located in south-central Arkansas, with its southernmost border about twenty-five miles from the Louisiana sta...

Changing boundary lines, the massacre of a California-bound wagon train, and the power of healing springs have...

Chicot County is the southeasternmost county in Arkansas. It is bounded by Louisiana to the south and the Miss...

Clark County was founded on December 15, 1818, as part of Missouri Territory. One of the original five countie...

Clay County is a predominantly rural area with small cities and towns located in northeastern Arkansas. Light ...

Although it was the most recent of Arkansas’s seventy-five counties to be formed, Cleburne County has proved...

Cleveland County was created on April 17, 1873 as Dorsey County, named after Republican congressman Stephen Do...

Natural resources have been the mainstay of the Columbia County economy, from cotton in the nineteenth century...

Conway County was established by an act of the territorial legislature on October 20, 1825, from land taken fr...

Counties are administrative and political sub-units of a state. Some states, particularly Alaska and Louisiana...

Craighead County is located in northeast Arkansas and was created as Arkansas’s fifty-eighth county in 1859....

Crawford County is situated in northwest Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. The Boston Mountains on the north an...

  Crittenden County is located in east-central Arkansas. Its eastern and southern boundaries are the Miss...

Cross County is one of the state’s leading producers of soybeans and rice, the location of the only copper t...

Dallas County is a rural county, dominated in its early days by farming, mostly cotton, and then railroads and...

Hardwood forests, alluvial soil, and flooding rivers marked the Native American territory that became Desha Co...

Drew County is located at the edge of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (the Delta) in the West Gulf Coastal plai...

Faulkner County was one of the last counties formed in the state of Arkansas. Sparsely populated in its early ...

Franklin County, bisected by the Arkansas River into a forested northern section and a southern section primar...

Fulton County, located in the Ozark Foothills of north-central Arkansas, borders the Missouri state line on th...

Garland County, in the heart of the Ouachita Mountains, is home to the nation’s first federal reservation, w...

Grant County, located in central Arkansas, is best known for its timber industry. Numerous logging operators a...

For many years, Greene County’s main attraction, Crowley’s Ridge, was isolated because of swamplands on th...

Hempstead County, located in the southwest corner of the state, was organized in 1818, before Congress establi...

Hot Spring County was established by an act of the territorial legislature in 1829 with land taken from Clark ...

Howard County encompasses the Ouachita Mountains to the north and the Coastal Plain to the south. It was creat...