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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 |