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United States Arkansas Baxter County

Guide to Baxter County, Arkansas ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

=== County Courthouse  ===

Baxter County Courthouse Courthouse Square 1 E 7th Street Mountain Home, AR 72653 Phone: 870.425.3475 County Clerk has marriage, divorce, land and court records.

==== Government and Related Websites  ====

=== History  ===

==== Parent County  ====

*1873--Baxter County was created 24 March 1873 from Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy Counties.

County seat: Mountain Home

==== Boundary Changes  ====

For animated maps illustrating Arkansas county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Arkansas County Boundary Maps" (1813-1925) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

==== Variant Spellings  ====

==== Record Loss  ====

There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

=== Places/Localities  ===

Town/city records in the FamilySearch Catalog













==== Populated Places  ====

==== Neighboring Counties  ====

Fulton •  Howell County, Missouri Izard  •  Marion  •  Ozark County, Missouri  •  Searcy  •  Stone

=== Genealogy Resources  ===

==== Research Guides  ====

==== African Americans  ====

==== Bible Records  ====

==== Cemeteries  ====

==== Census  ====

==== Church Records  ====

==== Court  ====

==== Guardianship  ====

*Probate Records 1873-1949 Baxter County portion of the collection:

** Includes Accounts 1874-1889; Administration records 1873-1944; Guardian records 1890-1949; Wills 1873-1931.

==== Genealogy  ====

==== Land and Property  ====

==== Local Histories  ====

*Cothren, Zac. "Baxter County Courthouse," Baxter County history - v. 31-32 (2005-2006) - v. 31, no. 2 (Apr./June 2005).

**Online at FamilySearch Catalog (Free)

*Fleming, Louise. "The good old days in Baxter County," Baxter County history - v. 31-32 (2005-2006) - v. 31, no. 4 (Oct./Dec. 2005).

**Online at FamilySearch Catalog (Free)

*Messick, Mary Ann. History of Baxter County, 1873-1973. Mountain Home, Arkansas:Montain Home Chamber of Commerce, c1973.

**Online at FamilySearch Catalog (Free)

*Andrewson, Jane Messick. "Post offices in Baxter County," Baxter County history - v. 31-32 (2005-2006) - v. 31, no. 2 (Apr./June 2005).

**Online at FamilySearch Catalog (Free)

*Acklin, Emmit Dolan. "Slaves &amp;amp; free blacks in this area 1819-1900" Baxter County history - v. 31-32 (2005-2006) - v. 32, no. 2 (Apr./June 2006).

**Online at FamilySearch Catalog (Free)

==== History Timeline  ====

Emphasis for this timeline is on events that affected migration, records, or record-keeping. Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were taken from the Baxter County page on the website, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.

* 1808 - The Osage relinquished their claims to this area to the United States.

* Most of the pioneers moving into the area before the Civil War were from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

* 1819 - The county’s earliest recorded town was Big Clarkridge.

* Baxter was not yet a county during the Civil War

* 1873 - March 24 - Governor Baxter formed Baxter County.

==== Maps  ====

*Maps of Arkansas (1813-1925)

==== Military  ====

==== Naturalization  ====

==== Newspapers  ====

==== Occupations  ====

==== Probate Records  ====

Online Probate Records

*1783 – 1998 Arkansas Wills and Probate Records 1783-1998 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

*1817 – 1979 at FamilySearch — images

*Probate Records 1873-1949 Baxter County portion of the collection:

** Includes Accounts 1874-1889; Administration records 1873-1944; Guardian records 1890-1949; Wills 1873-1931.

==== Taxation  ====

==== Vital Records  ====

See also How to order Arkansas Vital Records

===== Birth  =====

===== Marriage  =====

*1873-1921 - Baxter County Marriage Index 1873-1921 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free.

*1873-1921 - Baxter County Marriage Index 1873-1921 in at FamilySearch - free.

===== Death  =====

===== Vital Record Substitutes  =====

== Genealogy Societies and Libraries  ==

*List of Arkansas Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp;amp; Genealogical Societies

==== Family History Centers  ====

*Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

*Mountain Home Arkansas Family History Center 100 Western Hills DR., Mountain Home, AR 72653 United States

==== Societies  ====

Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society Baxter County Heritage Center  808 South Baker Street   Mountain Home, AR   Telephone: 870.425.2551

* Their website links to: Sheriffs Biographies; Archival Program, which includes County, Township, and Local Government Records, School Records, Birth, Marriage and Death Records and much more.

==== Websites  ====

=== References  ===