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Scott County, Arkansas
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Location in the state of Arkansas
Location of Arkansas in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	November 5, 1833
County Seat	Waldron
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

Scott County Courthouse
100 W 1 St Ste 1;
Waldron, AR 72958
Phone: 501.637.2155

County and and Circuit Clerk has marriave, divorce,
probate, land and court records from 1882^[1]

History

Parent County

• 1833--Scott County was created 5 November 1833 from Pulaski, Crawford, and Pope Counties.

County seat: Waldron ^[2]

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Scott County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Courthouse fire on 22 May 1882 destroyed all previous county records.

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• LeFlore County, Oklahoma
• Logan
• Montgomery
• Polk
• Sebastian
• Yell

Resources

Cemeteries

Scott County AR 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, Scott 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) Infantry (Arkansas Research: Conway, Arkansas,1987).

Newspapers

Probate

Scott County AR Will Book A, 1882 - 1918, Index

Taxation

Vital Records

Scott County AR Marriages

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• Scott County ARGenWeb Has cemeteries, marriages, biographies, photographs, census indexes, many other county records.
• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
  
• Family History Library Catalog
• Scott 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. 70.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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