Arkansas

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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Arkansas was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and was included in Louisiana Territory, established in 1805 and comprising the whole of the Louisiana Purchase north of present-day Louisiana. Arkansas (then spelled Arkansaw) became a territory in 1819 and at first included most of present-day Oklahoma; in 1828 it reached essentially its present boundaries, although the boundary with Texas was incorrectly interpreted at that time. Arkansas was admitted as a State on June 15, 1836.

Federal Census Summary

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In 1810, census coverage of Louisiana Territory was limited to portions of present-day Arkansas and Missouri, mainly close to the Mississippi River. The 1810 census was reported by districts; the total for 1810 is for Arkansas District, which was entirely within present-day Arkansas. New Madrid District, which included the northern part of present-day Arkansas, was mainly in Missouri. In 1820 census coverage included much of the present State and a small number of people in present-day Oklahoma and Texas. By 1830 census coverage included the whole of Arkansas, and also included (in old Miller County) a portion of today's Texas.

1790: ---	1800: ---	1810: 1,062	1820: 14,273	1830: 30,388	1840: 97,574	1850: 209,897	1860: 435,450
1870: 484,471	1880: 802,525	1890: 1,128,211	1900: 1,311,564	1910: 1,574,449	1920: 1,752,204	1930: 1,854,482	1940: 1,949,387
1950: 1,909,511	1960: 1,786,272	1970: 1,923,295	1980: 2,286,435	1990: 2,350,725	2000: 2,673,400

Counties
Arkansas Ashley Baxter Benton Boone Bradley Calhoun Carroll Chicot Clark Clay Cleburne Cleveland Columbia Conway Craighead Crawford Crittenden Cross	Dallas Desha Drew Faulkner Franklin Fulton Garland Grant Greene Hempstead Hot Spring Howard Independence Izard Jackson Jefferson Johnson Lafayette Lawrence	Lee Lincoln Little River Logan Lonoke Madison Marion Miller (old) Miller Mississippi Monroe Montgomery Nevada Newton Ouachita Perry Phillips Pike Poinsett	Polk Pope Prairie Pulaski Randolph St. Francis Saline Scott Searcy Sebastian Sevier Sharp Stone Union Van Buren Washington White Woodruff Yell

State Resources

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References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.