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Arkansas Counties
There are 75 Counties in the State of Arkansas which vary from the rich Delta farmlands of the
Mississippi River valley to the rolling hills and gently sloped mountains of the Ozarks and Ouachitas |
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Arkansas Counties
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.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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