List of Arkansas county name etymologies
This is a list of Arkansas county name etymologies
Counties, alphabetical by first letter
A
- Arkansas County, Arkansas: Arkansas is named for the Arkansa Native American tribe.
- Ashley County, Arkansas: Ashley is named for Chester Ashley, an U.S. Senator and land speculator.
B
- Baxter County, Arkansas: Baxter is named for Elisha Baxter, the thirteenth governor of Arkansas.
- Benton County, Arkansas: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, an U.S. Senator from Missouri.
- Boone County, Arkansas: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Bradley County, Arkansas: Bradley is named for Hugh Bradley, a soldier in the War of 1812.
C
- Calhoun County, Arkansas: Calhoun is named for John Caldwell Calhoun, the seventh vice president of the United States.
- Carroll County, Arkansas: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence from Maryland who was the the last surviving and only Catholic signer:
- Chicot County, Arkansas: Chicot is named for Point Chicot on the Mississippi River.
- Clark County, Arkansas: Clark is named for William Clark, the famous explorer who was governor of the Missouri Territory at the time of the county's formation.
- Clay County, Arkansas: Clay is named for John Clayton, a member of the state senate.
- Cleburne County, Arkansas: Cleburne is named for Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, a Confederate general in the Civil War.
- Cleveland County, Arkansas: Cleveland is named for Stephen Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States.
- Columbia County, Arkansas: Columbia is named for Columbia, a female personification of the United States.
- Conway County, Arkansas: Conway is named for Henry Wharton Conway, a territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
- Crawford County, Arkansas: Crawford is named for William Harris Crawford, the U. S. statesman and Secretary of War.
- Crittenden County, Arkansas: Crittenden is named for Robert Crittenden, the first secretary and an acting governor of the Arkansas Territory.
- Cross County, Arkansas: Cross is named for David C. Cross, a Confederate soldier and political leader in the region.
D
- Dallas County, Arkansas: Dallas is named for George Mifflin Dallas, the eleventh vice president of the United States.
- Desha County, Arkansas: Desha is named for Benjamin Desha, a soldier in the War of 1812.
- Drew County, Arkansas: Drew is named for Thomas Stevenson Drew, the third governor of Arkansas.
F
- Faulkner County, Arkansas: Faulkner is named for Sanford C. 'Sandy' Faulkner, a soldier in the American Civil War and the composer of the popular fiddle tune "The Arkansas Traveller".
- Franklin County, Arkansas: Franklin is named for Benjamin Franklin, the famous printer, scientist, diplomat, and Founding Father.
- Fulton County, Arkansas: Fulton is named for William Savin Fulton, the last territorial governor of Arkansas.
G
- Garland County, Arkansas: Garland is named for Augustus Hill Garland, the eighth governor of Arkansas.
- Grant County, Arkansas: Grant is named for Ulysses Simpson Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States.
- Greene County, Arkansas: Greene is named for supposedly Nathanael Greene, the American Revolutionary War general.
H
- Hempstead County, Arkansas: Hempstead is named for Edward Hempstead, a delegate to the United States Congress from the Missouri Territory.
- Hot Spring County, Arkansas: Hot Spring is named for the hot springs at the town of that name which were within the borders of the county at the time of its formation.
- Howard County, Arkansas: Howard is named for James H. Howard, an Arkansas state senator.
I
- Independence County, Arkansas: Independence is named for the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Izard County, Arkansas: Izard is named for George Izard, a governor of the Arkansas Territory and general in the War of 1812.
J
- Jackson County, Arkansas: Jackson is named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
- Jefferson County, Arkansas: Jefferson is named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
- Johnson County, Arkansas: Johnson is named for Benjamin Johnson, a judge in the Arkansas Territory.
L
- Lafayette County, Arkansas: Lafayette is named for Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, the French hero of the American Revolutionary War.
- Lawrence County, Arkansas: Lawrence is named for James Lawrence, the naval officer in the War of 1812 who originated the phrase "Don't give up the ship!"
- Lee County, Arkansas: Lee is named for Robert Edward Lee, the Confederate commander-in-chief.
- Lincoln County, Arkansas: Lincoln is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States.
- Little River County, Arkansas: Little River is named for the Little River.
- Logan County, Arkansas: Logan is named for James Logan, a pioneer in the area.
- Lonoke County, Arkansas: Lonoke is named for a "lone oak" tree that stood on the site of the present county seat and was used as a local landmark.
M
- Madison County, Arkansas: Madison is named for James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
- Marion County, Arkansas: Marion is named for Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War general who was nicknamed the "Swamp Fox".
- Miller County, Arkansas: Miller is named for James Miller, the first governor of the Arkansas Territory.
- Mississippi County, Arkansas: Mississippi is named for the Mississippi River.
- Monroe County, Arkansas: Monroe is named for James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States.
- Montgomery County, Arkansas: Montgomery is named for Richard Montgomery, a general in the American Revolutionary War.
N
- Nevada County, Arkansas: Nevada is named for the State of Nevada due to the perceived similarity between their physical shapes.
- Newton County, Arkansas: Newton is named for Thomas W. Newton, a state legislator.
O
- Ouachita County, Arkansas: Ouachita is named for
P
- Perry County, Arkansas: Perry is named for
- Phillips County, Arkansas: Phillips is named for
- Pike County, Arkansas: Pike is named for
- Poinsett County, Arkansas: Poinsett is named for
- Polk County, Arkansas: Polk is named for
- Pope County, Arkansas: Pope is named for
- Prairie County, Arkansas: Prairie is named for
- Pulaski County, Arkansas: Pulaski is named for
R
- Randolph County, Arkansas: Randolph is named for
S
- St. Francis County, Arkansas: St. Francis is named for
- Saline County, Arkansas: Saline is named for
- Scott County, Arkansas: Scott is named for
- Searcy County, Arkansas: Searcy is named for
- Sebastian County, Arkansas: Sebastian is named for
- Sevier County, Arkansas: Sevier is named for
- Sharp County, Arkansas: Sharp is named for
- Stone County, Arkansas: Stone is named for
U
- Union County, Arkansas: Union is named for
V
- Van Buren County, Arkansas: Van Buren is named for
W
- Washington County, Arkansas: Washington is named for
- White County, Arkansas: White is named for
- Woodruff County, Arkansas: Woodruff is named for
Y
- Yell County, Arkansas: Yell is named for