Townships of Marion County, AR

(Time Line of formation of county listed below table)

Reprinted from the Marion Co, AR

Bramble Bush, July 1997 Issue

Printed here with permission of Marion Co Historical Society

       

Township

Year

Formed From

Part Given To;

Barren Creek

1858

 

Annexed to Baxer Co 1873

Bearden

1870s

 

 

Big Creek

1890s

Buffalo

 

Big Springs

1910s

Hampton, Liberty, Union, Water Creek

 

Blythe

1838

Original township

Dodd City 1890s, Summit 1905

 Buffalo

1840

Original Township

Big Creek 1890s

Cedar Creek

1890s

Franklin, North Fork

 

Crockett

1888

Franklin

Kessee 1890s

Crooked Creek

1890s

Bearden, Union, White River

 

DeSoto

1888

Bearden, Water Creek

Jefferson 1904

Dodd City

1890s

Blythe, Sugarloaf

Joe Burleson 1905, Summit 1905

Flippen Barren

1860s

 

Name changed from White River

Flippen Barren

1870s

 

Name changed back to White River

Franklin

1870s

 

Crockett 1888, Cedar Creek 1890s

 Hampton

1854

 

Tomahawk 1890s, Liberty 1890s, Independence 1908, Big Springs 1910s

Independence

1862

Rapps Barren, Whiteville 1862

Annexed to Baxter Co 1873

Independence

1908

Hampton, Prairie 1908

 

James Creek

1856

 

Keeter 1906

Jefferson

1904

Bearden, DeSoto

 

Joe Burleson

1905

Dodd City, Union, White River

 

Kessee

1890s

Crockett

 

Keeter

1906

James Creek, North Fork

 

Liberty

1890s

Hampton, Water Creek

 

Little North Fork

1840

Original township

Renamed "North Fork" in 1880s

North Fork

1880s

Little North Fork Renamed

Cedar Creek 1890s, Keeter 1906

 Prairie

1850

Blythe

Annexed to Boone Co 1869

Prairie

1870

 

Recreated 1870

Rapps Barren

1858

 

Independence 1869, Annexed to Baxter Co 1873

Sugarloaf

Before 1836

Original township

Dodd City 1890s

Summit

1905

Blythe, Dodd City, Union, White River

 

Tomahawk

1870s

 

Annexed to Hampton Twp 1890s

Union

Before 1836

Original township

Crooked Creek 1890s, Joe Burleson Summit 1905, Big Springs 1910

Water Creek

1870s

 

DeSoto 1888, Liberty 1890s, Big Springs 1910

White River

1837

Original township

Crooked Creek 1890s, Joe Burleson 1905, Called Flippen Barren 1860s

Whiteville

1856

 

Independence 1862, Annexed to Baxter Co 1873

 

 

Formation of Marion County, AR

 

Created out of Lawrence County, 3 Nov 1835, under name of Searcy County

Name changed from Searcy County to Marion County 29 Sep 1836

West boundary defined 11 Jan 1843 and again 20 Jan 1843 and again 18 Dec 1846

Line between Carroll County defined 18 Dec 1846

Part of Fulton county attached 18 Jan 1855

Line between Van Buren County and Searcy County defined 29 Jan 1855; act March 1873

Line between Boone county defined 9 Dec 1875

Line between Baxter County changed 9 Mar 1881

(Thanks to Mysty McPherson for the above information)

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