Special Collections
County Records
Special Collections is home to over 700 cubic feet of official Clark County
records, as well as additional materials on microfilm. A wide variety
of documents may be viewed here, including marriage, tax, probate,
circuit court, chancery court, and civil court records.
Many of these records were moved to the Riley-Hickingbotham Library as
a part of the Clark County Records Preservation Project, which began in
1990. The project, a major undertaking of the Clark County Historical
Association, includes the arrangement, description, and preservation of
records once located in the Clark County Court House. The goal of the
project is to preserve and make accessible this part of Clark County history.
Since it has not suffered a court house fire, Clark County possesses records
created since 1819. As one of Arkansas's five original counties, Clark
County claims a lengthy heritage, but its history would be necessarily
incomplete without accessibility to all of its records.
To offer greater access, every-name indexes to early Circuit,
Civil, Criminal,
and Probate court packets as
well as Tax records have been compiled
by the Clark County Historical Association.