471 pages with 110 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Washington County, Arkansas, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 10022 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 100 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s1334 1840s1302 1850s1380 1860s1578 1870s410 1880s1161 1890s1544 1900s658 1910s540 1920s114 What Cities and Towns are in Washington County, Arkansas (and in this book)? Appleby, Arnett, Baldwin, Banyard, Barbara (historical), Beau-O-Rama, Black Oak, Blackburn, Blewford (historical), Blue Springs Village, Brentwood, Canehill, Carter (historical), Cincinnati, Clyde, Cross Roads (historical), Durham, Dutch Mills, Elkins, Elm Springs, Evansville, Farmington, Fayette Junction, Fayetteville, Floss, Goshen, Greenland, Gulley, Habberton, Harmon, Harris, Hazel Valley, Hicks, Hogeye, Hubbard, Jabur (historical), Johnson, Lincoln, Mayfield, McGuire (historical), McNair, Morrow, Mount Olive, Oak Grove, Odell, Onda, Pilgrims Rest, Pitkin Corner, Porters Store (historical), Prairie Grove, Rhea, Rickert (historical), Rochelle Riviera, Ruckers Grove (historical), Savoy, Sexton (historical), Shady Grove, Skylight, Sonora, Spring Valley, Springdale, Starks, Steele, Strain, Strickler, Sulphur City, Summers, Summit (historical), Sunset, Suttle, Sydenham (historical), Tolu, Tontitown, Tuttle, Viney Grove, Walnut Grove, War Eagle Cove, Weddington, Wedington Woods, West Fork, Wheeler, White Rock, Winslow, Woolsey, Wyman, Wyola

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