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Overview
Arkansas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Located in the Arkansas Delta, the county has two county seats, DeWitt and Stuttgart.
The first of the state's 75 present-day counties to be created, Arkansas County was formed on December 13, 1813, when this area was part of the Missouri Territory. The county was named after the Arkansas River (itself named for the Arkansas tribe), as was the subsequent Arkansas Territory. This was later split off from Missouri Territory and eventually admitted to the union as a state. The riverfront areas in the Arkansas Delta were developed for cotton plantations, based on the use of slaves. Cotton was the major commodity crop before and after the Civil War. Other crops such as soybeans are also cultivated now, in industrial-scale production.
The Battle of Saint Charles took place on June 17, 1862, during the American Civil War. The battle was a land and naval engagement, in which Union gunboats engaged Confederate shore batteries and gunboats in a firefight, while infantry troops were landed on the western bank of the White River and eventually drove the Confederate forces from their shore batteries. The battle site occupies about 9 acres on the west bank the River southeast of Saint Charles. There are no signs left of the Confederate batteries, and the area is an undeveloped
swampland, as it was in 1862.
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as Battle of Fort Hindman, was fought from January 9 to 11, 1863, near the mouth of the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
Adjacent Counties
- Desha County
- Lincoln County
- Jefferson County
- Lonoke County
- Prairie County
- Monroe County
- Phillips County
Townships
- Arkansas
- Barton
- Bayou Meto
- Brewer
- Chester
- Crockett
- Garland
- Gum Pond
- Henton
- Keaton
- La Grue
- McFall
- Mill Bayou
- Morris
- Point Deluce
- Prairie
- Stanley
Communities
Abeles | Arkansas Post | Benzal | Buffo | Burks | Casscoe | Crockett's Bluff | Deluce | Ethel | Fish Dock | Goldman | Hagler | Holdridge | Horton's Landing | Hyden | Immanuel | Jacks Bay Landing | Kittlers | La Grue Springs | Lodge Corner | Lookout | Mayview | Medina | Monica | Mount Adams | Nady | Olena | Ona | Osotouy | Parham | Plainview | Prairie Landing | Prairie Union | Preston Ferry | Ricusky | Roberts | Sassafras | Sheppard Point | South Stuttgart | Super | Thomwall | Tichnor | Vallier | Van | Weber | West Bayou | Yoder
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