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Jackson County, Arkansas
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Location in the state of Arkansas
Location of Arkansas in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	November 5, 1829
County Seat	Newport
Courthouse
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County Courthous

Jackson County Courthouse
208 Main Street
Newport, AR 7212
Phone: 870.523.7420

County Clerk has marriage records from 1843
and probate records from 1845; Clerk Circuit
Court has divorce and court records from 1845
and land records^[1]

History

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The county is named after President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845).^[2]

Parent County

• 1829--Jackson County was created 5 November 1829 from Independence County. 
  County seat: Newport ^[3]

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Jackson County boundary changes at N2Genealogy.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Craighead
• Cross
• Independence
• Lawrence
• Poinsett
• White
• Woodruff

Resources

Cemeteries

You will find all the cemeteries listed and inventory at:

• http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/jackson/jackcem1.html

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Marriages

• jacksoncountyclerk.0catch.com/marriage.htm

Military

Revolutionary War

• A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital version at Google Books. 1967 reprint: FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840. [See Arkansas, Jackson County on page 191.]
  

Civil War

• Men from this county served the the 1st Regiment, Arkansas Mounted Rifles⁴, 7th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry¹,  3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union)², The 31st Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Confederate)^, Companies A and B.⁴  and the 45th Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry⁵.
  

    ^{1 Allen, Desmond Walls. The Seventh Arkansas Confederate Infantry (Desmond Walls Allen, Conway, Arkansas, 1988.}

     ^{2 Allen, Desmond Walls.The Third Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union), (Arkansas Research: Conway, Arkansas, 1987.)}

     ^{3 Allen, Desmond Walls. Forty-fifth Arkansas Confederate Cavalry (Desmond Walls Allen: Conway AR, 1988) p. 1.}

    ^{4 Allen, Desmond Walls. First Arkansas Confederate Mounted Rifles (Desmond Walls Allen: Conway AR, 1988) p. 2.}

     ^{5. Bass, Ronald R. History of the Thirty-first Confederate Infantry (Conway, Arkansas: Arkansas Research), 1996) p, 12.}

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
  
• Family History Library Catalog
• Jackson County, Arkansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America, 10th ed., (Draper, UT: Everton Publishers, 2002), p. 68.
2. ↑ "List of counties in Arkansas," Wikipedia.
3. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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