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Guide to Pike County Arkansas genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Pike County, Arkansas
Map
Location in the state of Arkansas
Location of Arkansas in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	November 1, 1833
County Seat	Murfreesboro
Courthouse
Address	Pike County Courthouse PO Box 219 Murfreesboro, AR 71958 Phone: 870.285.2231
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County Courthouse

Pike County Courthouse
PO Box 219
Murfreesboro, AR 71958
Phone: 870.285.2231

County Clerk has marriage, probate, court, land and 
military discharge records from 1895^[1]

History

Parent County

• 1833--Pike County was created 1 November 1833 from Clark and Hempstead Counties.

County seat: Murfreesboro ^[2]

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Pike County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Clark
• Hempstead
• Howard
• Montgomery
• Nevada
• Polk

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

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, Pike County on page 191.]
  

Civil War

• Men from this county served in the 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union).¹
  

    ¹Allen, Desmond Walls. The Third Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union)  (Arkansas Research: Conway, Arkansas,1987).

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
• Pike 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. 69.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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