Arkansas Co., Origins Compiled by James W. Blankenship jkblank1(at)sbcglobal.net
Louisiana Purchase
Treaty 30Apr1803
New Madrid District
original part of Louisiana purchase
Arkansas District created 1806 from Osage Indian lands
Missouri Territory created 04Jun1812
Louisiana Territory renamed
Arkansas created 13Dec1813
from Arkansas District
Lawrence created 15Jan1815
from New Madrid & Missouri
Lovely Purchase created
1816 from Osage Indian land
Clark created 15Dec1818
from Arkansas
Hempstead created 15Dec1818 from Arkansas
Pulaski created 15Dec1818 from Arkansas
Arkansas Territory
04Jul1819
Miller (old) created
01Apr1820 from Hempstead abolished in 1838
Phillips created 01May1820 from Arkansas
Crawford created 18Oct1820 from Pulaski
Independence created 20Oct1820 from Lawrence.
Chicot created 25Oct1823
from Arkansas
Conway created 20Oct1825
from Pulaski
Crittenden created 22Oct1825 from Phillips
Izard created 27Oct1825 from Independence
Lovely created 13Oct1827
from Crawford & Lovely Purchase
St.Francis created 13Oct1827 from Phillips
Lafayette created 15Oct1827 from Hempstead
Sevier created 17Oct1828
from Hempstead & Miller (Old)
Washington created
17Oct1828 from Crawford & Lovely
Hot Spring created
02Nov1829 from Clark
Jefferson created 02Nov1829 from Arkansas & Pulaski
Monroe created 02Nov1829 from Arkansas & Phillips
Pope created 02Nov1829 from Crawford
Union created 02 Nov1829 from Hempstead & Clark
Jackson created 05Nov1829 from Independence
Carroll created 01Nov1833
from Izard
Mississippi created 01Nov1833 from Crittenden
Pike created 01Nov1833 from Clark & Hempstead
Greene created 05Nov1833 from Lawrence
Scott created 05Nov1833 from Crawford & Pope
VanBuren created 11Nov1833 from Conway, Izard &
Independence
Johnson created 16Nov1833 from Pope
White created 23Oct1835
from Independence, Jackson & Pulaski
Randolph created 29Oct1835 from Lawrence
Saline created 02Nov1835 from Pulaski
Searcy created 03Nov1835 from Izard
Arkansas Statehood
15Jun1836
Arkansas Created 13Dec1813
from Original
Ashley created 30Nov1848 from Chicot, Drew & Union
Baxter created 24Mar1873 from
Fulton, Izard, Marion & Searcy
Benton created 30Sep1836 from Washington
Boone created 09Apr1869 from Carroll & Madison
Bradley created 18Dec1840 from Union
Calhoun created 06Dec1850 from
Dallas, Ouachita & Union
Carroll created
01Nov1833 from Izard
Chicot created 25Oct1823 from Arkansas
Clark created 15Dec1818 from Arkansas
Clayton created 24Mar1873 from Randolph & Greene
Clay created ??Dec1875 from Clayton name change
Cleburne created 20Feb1883 from Independence, Van Buren &
White
Cleveland created 1885 from Dorsey name change
Columbia created 17Dec1852 from Hempstead, Lafayette, Ouachita
& Union
Conway created 20Oct1825 from Pulaski
Craighead created 19Febr1859 from Greene, Mississippi &
Poinsett
Crawford created 18Oct1820 from Pulaski
Crittenden created 22Oct1825 from Phillips
Cross created 15Nov1862 from Crittenden, Poinsett & St.Francis
Dallas created 01Jan1845 from
Bradley & Clark
Desha created 12Dec1838 from Arkansas
Dorsey created 17Apr1873 from Bradley, Dallas, Jefferson &
Lincoln
Drew created 26Nov1846 from
Bradley
Faulkner created 12Apr1873
from Conway & Pulaski
Franklin created 19Dec1837 from Crawford.
Fulton created 21Dec1842 from Izard
Garland created 05Apr1873 from
Hot Spring, Montgomery & Saline
Grant created 04Feb1869 from Hot Spring, Jefferson &
Saline
Greene created 05Nov1833 from Lawrence
Hempstead created 15Dec1818
from Arkansas
Hot Spring created 02Nov1829 from Clark
Howard created 17Apr1873 from Hempstead, Pike, Polk &
Sevier
Independence created 20Oct1820
from Lawrence.
Izard created 27Oct1825 from Independence
Jackson created 05Nov1829 from
Independence
Jefferson created 02Nov1829 from Arkansas & Pulaski
Johnson created 16Nov1833 from Pope
Lafayette created 15Oct1827
from Hempstead
Lawrence created 15Jan1815 from New Madrid & Missouri
Lee created 17Apr1873 from Crittenden, Monroe, Phillips & St.Francis
Lincoln created 28Mar1871 from Arkansas, Bradley, Desha, Drew
& Jefferson
Little River created 05Mar1867 from Hempstead & Sevier
Logan. created 14Dec1875 from Sarber
name change
Lonoke created 16Apr1873 from Prairie & Pulaski
Lovely created 13Oct1827 from Crawford & Lovely Purchase
Lovely Purchase created 1816 from Osage Indian land
Madison created 30Sep1836 from
Washington & Carroll
Marion created 29Sep1836 from Searcy name change
Miller (old) created 01Apr1820 from Hempstead abolished in 1838
Miller created 22Dec1874 from Lafayette
Mississippi created 01Nov1833 from Crittenden
Monroe created 02Nov1829 from Arkansas & Phillips
Montgomery created 09Dec1842 from Hot Spring
Nevada created
20Mar1871 from Columbia, Hempstead & Ouachita
Newton created 14Dec1842 from Carroll
Ouachita created
29Nov1842 from Union
Perry created 18Dec1840 from
Conway
Phillips created 01May1820 from Arkansas
Pike created 01Nov1833 from Clark & Hempstead
Poinsett created 28Feb1838 from Greene & St.Francis
Polk created 30Nov1844 from Sevier
Pope created 02Nov1829 from Crawford
Prairie created 25Nov1846 from Pulaski
Pulaski created 15Dec1818 from Arkansas
Randolph created
29Oct1835 from Lawrence
St.Francis created 13Oct1827 from Phillips
Saline created 02Nov1835 from Pulaski
Sarber created 22Mar1871
from Franklin, Johnson, Scott & Yell
Scott created 05Nov1833 from
Crawford & Pope
Searcy created 03Nov1835 from Izard
Sebastian created 06Jan1851 from Crawford, Scott &
Polk
Sevier created 17Oct1828 from Hempstead & Miller (Old)
Sharp created 18Jul1868 from Lawrence
Stone created 21April1873 from Izard, Independence, VanBuren & Searcy
Union created
02 Nov1829 from Hempstead & Clark
VanBuren created11 Nov1833 from Conway, Izard & Independence
Washington
created 17Oct1828 from Crawford & Lovely
White created 23Oct1835 from Independence, Jackson &
Pulaski
Woodruff created 26Nove1862 from Jackson & St.Francis