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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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Bradley County, Arkansas

Bradley County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Warren
Year Organized: 1840
Square Miles: 651		 Court House:

101 East Cedar Street
County Courthouse
Warren, AR 71671-2701
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Bradley is named for Hugh Bradley, a soldier in the War of 1812.

Hugh Bradley (May 23, 1885 in Grafton, Massachusetts – January 26, 1949 in Worcester, Massachusetts) played first base in Major League Baseball from 1910 to 1915.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Created in December 18, 1840, from parts of Union, Cleveland, and Drew and Ashley counties. It was named for William H. Bradley who had been with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans and later settled in Arkansas. The county seat is Warren. All of the county's records are conserved in the courthouse. The first deed dates from March 29, 1841, and the first court records from April 1841. The County's structure today is the third county courthouse. Its predecessors were replaced because they were outgrown, not because of as in a number of Arkansas counties, being destroyed by fire. Pine timber is the mainstay of the economy with Potlatch Corp owning 300,000 acres and being the largest taxpayer. The county has nearly as many miles of company roads as county roads. Bradley County, however, is the tomato-raising capital of the state; and the General Assembly declared the South Arkansas vine-ripened pink tomato the official state fruit and vegetable. The famous Felsenthal Refuge features boating, hunting and fishing and is very poplar with the sportsmen.

 

Neighboring Counties:
  • North: Cleveland County
  • Northeast: Drew County
  • Southeast: Ashley County
  • Southwest: Union County
  • Northwest: Calhoun County
Cities and Towns:
- Banks town Incorporated Area
- Hermitage town Incorporated Area
- Warren (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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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, act locally."
 

 

 

 

 
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