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This project is part of the State of Arkansas Portal. = About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Arkansas. You can add profiles for: People born in Arkansas People who lived in Arkansas People who died in Arkansas When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit. If y...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Baxter County, Arkansas. Official Website Arkansas ' 66th county, it was formed on March 24, 1873 and named for Elisha Baxter , the tenth governor of Arkansas. It is in the northern part of the state, and shares a border with Missouri . It is commonly referred to as the Twin Lakes Area because it is bordered by two of Arkansas' lar...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fulton County, Arkansas. Fulton County was formed on December 21, 1842, and named for William Fulton, the last governor of the Arkansas Territory. Adjacent Counties Baxter County Ozark County, Missouri Izard County Howell County, Missouri Oregon County, Missouri Sharp County Cities & Towns Ash Flat Cherokee Vil...
Mountain Home Cemetery, established in 1863, is located four blocks south of the square just off Main Street in the City of Mountain Home, Arkansas. These historic grounds are a collaborative of properties donated and purchased over the years from individual landowners. In 1961, the parcels were incorporated, and a Board of Directors was appointed to manage it. The cemetery contains many of Bax...
From the junction of routes 5, 126 and 178 at Midway, Arkansas, go south on 126/178 approximately 2.0 mi. to Kinsdale Lane, which goes only west: a gravel road that looks more like a driveway than a roadway. Kinsdale is immediately to the north of two small brick buildings with a sign saying "Forestry Commission Work Center Baxter County." Kinsdale leads directly into the cemetery, which is jus...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Arkansas County, Arkansas. 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 ...
University of Arkansas (often shortened to U of A, UARK, or just UA) is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university located in Fayetteville, in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System which comprises six main campuses within the state – the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of Arkansas at Monticell...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Prairie County, Arkansas. Official Website Prairie County, created in 1846, is in the Central Arkansas region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The county is named for the Grand Prairie, a subregion of the Arkansas Delta known for rice cultivation and aquaculture that runs through the county. The county at first was land given to Che...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Official Website Pulaski County is Arkansas's fifth county, formed on December 15, 1818. It is named for Casimir Pulaski, a Polish volunteer who saved George Washington's life during the American Revolutionary War. U. M. Rose, a pro-Confederate attorney, was county chancellor (judge and chief county execut...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scott County, Arkansas. The county, formed on November 5, 1833, and named for Andrew Scott, a justice of the Supreme Court of the Arkansas Territory. Adjacent Counties Logan County Sebastian County Yell County Montgomery County Polk County Le Flore County Cities & Townships Black Fork | Blansett | Brawley | Cau...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Arkansas. Official Website When Clay County was created as Arkansas's 67th county on March 24, 1873, it was named Clayton County, after John M. Clayton, then a member of the Arkansas Senate and a brother of then-U.S. Senator Powell Clayton, though some sources suggest it may have been named for Powell Clayton instead. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. Official Website Texarkana is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County, on the southwest border of the state. The city is located across the state line from its twin city of Texarkana, Texas. The city was founded at a railroad intersection on December 8, 1873 and w...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Miller County, Arkansas. Official Website When first formed, Miller County was Arkansas' sixth county, established on April 1, 1820, and named for James Miller, the first governor of the Arkansas Territory. Additionally, Miller County was the first of the state's counties to be formed upon the creation of the Arkansas Territory. The...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Arkansas. Official Website Greene County was formed on 5 November 1833 and was named for Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene. Adjacent Counties Clay County Dunklin County, Missouri Craighead County Lawrence County Randolph County Cities, Towns & Communities Beech Grove Cotton Belt Delaplaine...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Official Website Sebastian County was formed on January 6, 1851, and named for William K. Sebastian, United States Senator from Arkansas. Adjacent Counties Crawford County Le Flore County, Oklahoma Scott County Logan County Franklin County Sequoyah County, Oklahoma Cities, Towns & Townships
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas: Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 in 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau. As the county seat of Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center. The city derived its n...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Faulkner County, Arkansas. Official Website Faulkner County was formed from parts of Conway and Pulaski counties on April 12, 1873, and is named after Colonel Sanford C. 'Sandy' Faulkner who was the composer of the popular fiddle tune "The Arkansas Traveler". Adjacent Counties Cleburne County White County Van Buren County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Woodruff County, Arkansas. Official Website Woodruff County was formed in 1862, after Arkansas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy. It was named in honor of William E. Woodruff, editor of the first paper published in Arkansas, the Arkansas Gazette, first published at Arkansas Post, in 1819. He was one of the most disti...
This cemetery is located on 401 NW 3rd Street, Corning, Clay County, Arkansas. Find a Grave Arkansas Gravestones USGW Archives
This cemetery, established in 1918, is located on 3400 Sanderson Lane, Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. Find a Grave Roots Web Arkansas Gravestones
This cemetery is located on 472 US-64, Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas. Find a Grave Arkansas Gravestones
This cemetery is located on Harkrider Street, Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas. Find a Grave Arkansas Gravestones Billion Graves
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as Battle of Fort Hindman, was fought from January 9–11, 1863, near the mouth of the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Confederate forces had constructed a fort known as Fort Hindman near Arkansas Post, Arkansas in late 1862. In December of that year, a Union force under the command of Major Gene...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Arkansas. Official Website Created as Arkansas's 17th county on November 30, 1848, Washington County has 13 incorporated municipalities. It is named for George Washington, the first President of the United States. Located within the Ozark Mountains, the county is roughly divided into two halves: the rolling Spri...
Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery is a cemetery for soldiers of the Confederate States located on the eastern side of Fayetteville in Washington County, Arkansas. Added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1993, the cemetery encompasses 3.5 acres. Many American Civil War battles were fought in northwest Arkansas, including the Battle of Cane Hill, Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle o...