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Former Counties in Arkansas | ||||
| Lovely County (1827 - 1828) | Crawford and Dissolved by Washington. | |||
| Dorsey County (1873 - 1885) | Cleveland County | |||
| County | County seat | Established | Origin | Administrator |
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| Arkansas County | De Witt and Stuttgart | 1813 | 1st County (Eastern Arkansas) |
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| Ashley County | Hamburg | 1848 | Drew and Union Counties |
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| Baxter County | Mountain Home | 1873 | Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy Counties |
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| Benton County | Bentonville | 1836 | Washington County | |
| Boone County | Harrison | 1869 | Carroll and Marion Counties |
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| Bradley County | Warren | 1840 | Union County | |
| Calhoun County | Hampton | 1850 | Dallas and Ouachita Counties |
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| Carroll County | Berryville and Eureka Springs |
1833 | Izard County and Madison County (1870) |
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| Chicot County | Lake Village | 1823 | Arkansas County | |
| Clark County | Arkadelphia | 1818 | Arkansas (1818) | |
| Clay County | Piggott and Corning |
1873 | Randolph and Greene Counties originally named Clayton before 1875 |
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| Cleburne County | Heber Springs | 1883 | White, Van Buren, and Independence Counties | |
| Cleveland County | Rison | 1873 | Bradley, Dallas, Jefferson counties formerly named Dorsey County (from 1885) |
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| Columbia County | Magnolia | 1852 | Formed from LaFayette, Hempstead, and Ouachita Counties |
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| Conway County | Morrilton | 1825 | Pulaski county | |
| Craighead County | Jonesboro and Lake City |
1859 | Mississippi, Greene, and Poinsett Counties |
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| Crawford County | Van Buren | 1820 | Pulaski | |
| Crittenden County | Marion | 1825 | Phillips | |
| Cross County | Wynne | 1862 | St. Francis, Poinsett, and Critteden Counties |
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| Dallas County | Fordyce | 1845 | Clark and Bradley Counties | |
| Desha County | Arkansas City | 1838 | Arkansas, Union Counties, then from Chicot County (prior to 1880), and Lincoln (prior 1930) |
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| Drew County | Monticello | 1846 | Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Union Counties |
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| Faulkner County | Conway | 1873 | Pulaski and Conway Counties | |
| Franklin County | Ozark and Charleston |
1837 | Crawford and Johnson Counties | |
| Fulton County | Salem | 1842 | Izard County and then later from Lawrence County (prior 1850) | Billie Walsh |
| Garland County | Hot Springs | 1873 | Montgomery, Hot Springs, and Saline Counties | |
| Grant County | Sheridan | 1869 | Jefferson, Hot Spring, Saline Counties | |
| Greene County | Paragould | 1833 | Lawrence County and later on by Randolph | |
| Hempstead County | Hope | 1818 | Arkansas (1818) | |
| Hot Spring County | Malvern | 1829 | Clark County and later from Montgomery County (prior 1880) | |
| Howard County | Nashville | 1873 | Pike, Hempstead, Polk, Sevier Counties. | |
| Independence County | Batesville | 1820 | Lawrence County (1820) | |
| Izard County | Melbourne | 1825 | Independence, Crawford Counties, and later from Fulton (prior 1880) | Billie Walsh |
| Jackson County | Newport | 1829 | Lawrence, and St. Francis | |
| Jefferson County | Pine Bluff | 1829 | Arkansas and Pulaski | |
| Johnson County | Clarksville | 1833 | Pope County, and a small portion from Madison County (prior 1890) | |
| Lafayette County | Lewisville | 1827 | Hempstead County and later from Columbia County (prior 1910) | |
| Lawrence County | Walnut Ridge | 1815 | Arkansas and New Madrid (MO) in 1815 | |
| Lee County | Marianna | 1873 | Phillips, Monroe, Crittenden, and St. Francis Counties. | |
| Lincoln County | Star City | 1871 | Arkansas, Bradley, Desha, Drew, and Jefferson Counties | |
| Little River County | Ashdown | 1867 | Sevier County | |
| Logan County | Booneville and Paris |
1871 | Franklin, Johnson, Pope, Scott, and Yell Counties (Formally named Sarber County) | |
| Lonoke County | Lonoke | 1873 | Prairie and Pulaski Counties | |
| Madison County | Huntsville | 1836 | Washington County | |
| Marion County | Yellville | 1835 | Izard County | |
| Miller County | Texarkana | 1862 | LaFayette County | |
| Mississippi County | Blytheville and Osceola |
1883 | Crittenden | |
| Monroe County | Clarendon | 1839 | Phillips and Arkansas Counties | |
| Montgomery County | Mount Ida | 1842 | Hot Spring | |
| Nevada County | Prescott | 1871 | Columbia, Hempstead, Ouachita Counties | |
| Newton County | Jasper | 1842 | Carroll | Linda |
| Ouachita County | Camden | 1842 | Union | |
| Perry County | Perryville | 1840 | Conway County | |
| Phillips County | Helena | 1820 | Arkansas and Lawrence County | |
| Pike County | Murfreesboro | 1833 | Clark and Hempstead Counties | |
| Poinsett County | Harrisburg | 1838 | Greene, Lawrence Counties | |
| Polk County | Mena | 1844 | Sevier | |
| Pope County | Russellville | 1829 | Crawford County | |
| Prairie County | Des Arc and DeValls Bluff |
1846 | Arkansas and Pulaski Counties | |
| Pulaski County | Little Rock | 1818 | Arkansas and Lawrence Counties (1818) | |
| Randolph County | Pocahontas | 1835 | Lawrence County | |
| St. Francis County | Forrest City | 1827 | Phillips County | |
| Saline County | Benton | 1835 | Independence and Pulaski | |
| Scott County | Waldron | 1833 | Crawford and Pope Counties | |
| Searcy County | Marshall | 1838 | Marion County | |
| Sebastian County | Greenwood and Fort Smith |
1851 | Crawford and Scott | |
| Sevier County | De Queen | 1828 | Hempstead County | |
| Sharp County | Hardy and Evening Shade before 1963 Ash Flat |
1868 | Lawrence County | Billie Walsh |
| Stone County | Mountain View | 1873 | Izard, Indenpendence, Searcy, Van Buren | |
| Union County | El Dorado | 1829 | Clark and Hempstead Counties | |
| Van Buren County | Clinton | 1833 | Conway, Izard, and Independece | |
| Washington County | Fayetteville | 1828 | Lovely County | |
| White County | Searcy | 1835 | Independence, Jackson and Pulaski counties | |
| Woodruff County | Augusta | 1862 | Jackson and St. Francis Counties | |
| Yell County | Danville and Dardanelle | 1840 | Hot Spring, Pope, and Scott County | |
