What are land patents? All of what is now Arkansas was once owned by the federal government--it is a public domain land state. People who purchased land from the federal government received documents called land patents. Land was obtained through purchase, military warrants, homesteads, scrip acts and other laws that allowed the land to be transferred out of federal hands. The paperwork generated in those sales can be very helpful to genealogists. Copies of the land patents make interesting additions to published family histories but the land entry case files are most apt to have helpful details about families or clues that help piece together information from other sources.
What information is included? The county volumes of land patents list patentee's name, volume and page of the patent book, land office, document and miscellaneous document numbers, type of transaction, precise legal description, and number of acres. Introductory information describes in great detail how to get copies of the patents and land entry case files, how to use other land record sources, how to integrate the information with other sources, what is found in a typical homestead case file, where and when the Arkansas land offices operated, and a selected bibliography. 1919 era county maps are also included. The time period covered by this information is earliest settlement through 30 June 1908. Information from 156,784 patent documents is included. These county volumes are based on current-day county boundaries.
Arkansas Land Patents: County Series
(granted from earliest times through 30 June 1908)
Complete set of 57 volumes covering all 75 Arkansas counties
ISBN 1-56546-000-6, $842.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Arkansas,
Chicot, and Desha Counties
ISBN 1-56546-001-4
124 pages, $16.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Ashley County
ISBN 1-56546-003-0
87 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Baxter County
ISBN 1-56546-004-9
78 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Benton County
ISBN 1-56546-005-7
154 pages, $18.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Boone County
ISBN 1-56546-006-5
114 pages, $16.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Bradley County
ISBN 1-56546-007-3
95 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Calhoun County
ISBN 1-56546-008-1
77 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Carroll County
ISBN 1-56546-009-X
114 pages, $16.00
[Chicot - see Arkansas County]
Arkansas Land Patents: Clark County
ISBN 1-56546-010-3
81 pages, $14.00
[Clay - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Cleburne County
ISBN 1-56546-011-1
76 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Cleveland County
ISBN 1-56546-012-X
70 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Columbia County
ISBN 1-56546-013-8
113 pages, $16.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Conway,
Faulkner, and Perry Counties
ISBN 1-56546-014-6
142 pages, $18.00
[Craighead County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Crawford County
ISBN 1-56546-015-4
66 pages, $14.00
[Crittenden County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
[Cross County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Dallas County
ISBN 1-56546-016-2
55 pages, $14.00
[Desha -- see Arkansas County]
Arkansas Land Patents: Drew County
ISBN 1-56546-017-0
88 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Eastern
Arkansas Counties
(Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi,
Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties)
ISBN 1-56546-002-2
232 pages, $24.00
[Faulkner - see Conway County]
Arkansas Land Patents: Franklin County
ISBN 1-56546-018-9
71 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Fulton County
ISBN 1-56546-019-7
97 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Garland County
ISBN 1-56546-020-0
97 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Grant and
Saline Counties
ISBN 1-56546-021-9
126 pages, $16.00
[Greene County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Hempstead County
ISBN 1-56546-022-7
89 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Hot Spring County
ISBN 1-56546-023-5
60 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Howard County
ISBN 1-56546-024-3
100 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Independence County
ISBN 1-56546-025-1
109 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Izard County
ISBN 1-56546-026-X
106 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Jackson,
Lawrence, and Woodruff Counties
ISBN 1-56546-027-8
79 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Jefferson County
ISBN 1-56546-028-6
78 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Johnson County
ISBN 1-56546-029-4
70 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Lafayette County
ISBN 1-56546-030-8
71 pages, $14.00
[Lawrence - see Jackson County]
[Lee County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Lincoln County
ISBN 1-56546-031-6
62 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Little River County
ISBN 1-56546-032-4
64 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Logan County
ISBN 1-56546-033-2
89 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Lonoke
and Prairie Counties
ISBN 1-56546-034-0
73 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Madison County
ISBN 1-56546-035-9
149 pages, $18.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Marion County
ISBN 1-56546-036-7
105 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Miller County
ISBN 1-56546-037-5
61 pages, $14.00
[Mississippi County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
[Monroe County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Montgomery County
ISBN 1-56546-038-3
71 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Nevada County
ISBN 1-56546-039-1
79 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Newton County
ISBN 1-56546-040-5
97 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Ouachita County
ISBN 1-56546-041-3
99 pages, $14.00
[Perry - see Conway County]
[Phillips County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Pike County
ISBN 1-56546-042-1
83 pages, $14.00
[Poinsett County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
Arkansas Land Patents: Polk County
ISBN 1-56546-043-X
93 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Pope County
ISBN 1-56546-044-8
81 pages, $14.00
[Prairie - see Lonoke County]
Arkansas Land Patents: Pulaski County
ISBN 1-56546-045-6
80 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Randolph County
ISBN 1-56546-046-4
82 pages, $14.00
[St. Francis County - see Eastern Arkansas volume]
[Saline - see Grant County]
Arkansas Land Patents: Scott County
ISBN 1-56546-047-2
75 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Searcy County
ISBN 1-56546-048-0
85 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Sebastian County
ISBN 1-56546-049-9
78 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Sevier County
ISBN 1-56546-050-2
86 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Sharp County
ISBN 1-56546-051-0
95 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Stone County
ISBN 1-56546-052-9
73 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Union County
ISBN 1-56546-053-7
138, pages $18.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Van Buren County
ISBN 1-56546-054-5
81 pages, $14.00
Arkansas Land Patents: Washington County
ISBN 1-56546-055-3
197, pages $22.00
Arkansas Land Patents: White County
ISBN 1-56546-056-1
75 pages, $14.00
[Woodruff - see Jackson County]
Arkansas Land Patents: Yell County
ISBN 1-56546-057-X
83 pages, $14.00
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