Arkansas Counties: History and Information

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Arkansas is a state located in the Southern region of the United States. Arkansas shares borders with six states: Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma, is the 29th most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock. On June 15, 1836, the state of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state.

The first of the state's 75 present-day counties to be created, Arkansas County was formed on 13 December 1813, when this area was part of the Missouri Territory.

Five counties were organized when Arkansas was established as a territory to the United States in 1819. They were Arkansas, Clark, Hempstead, Lawrence and Pulaski. These counties had been carved out of the Territory of Missouri and from American Indian lands. The titles to the Indian lands are extinguished and today the counties number 75.

There are 75 counties in the state of Arkansas. Arkansas is tied with Mississippi for the most counties with two county seats, at ten