Publisher's Synopsis
268 pages with 80 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 Sebastian 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) . . . 3584 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 81 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 1820s6 1830s246 1840s239 1850s122 1860s1319 1870s220 1880s602 1890s398 1900s276 1910s86 1920s27 1930s6 1940s1 1950s16 1960s13 1970s1 1980s1 1990s3 2000s2 What Cities and Towns are in Sebastian County, Arkansas (and in this book)? Apex, Arkola, Auburn (historical), Barling, Bashe, Beverly, Big Rock, Bloomer, Bonanza, Buell, Burna, Burnville, Carnis, Cavanaugh, Central City, Crescent, Crossroads, Dayton, Diamond Grove, Dill Place (historical), Doubleday (historical), Enterprise, Excelsior, Fidelity (historical), Fort Chaffee, Fort Smith, Fox Hill, Frog Town, Greenwood, Hackett, Hartford, Huntington, Island, Jenny Lind, Jenson, Lavaca, Liberty, Mansfield, Massard, Midland, Mill Creek, Milltown, Montreal, New Jenny Lind, Oak Park, Old Jenny Lind, Patterson, Prairie Creek, Riverdale, Saw Mill, Slaytonville, South Fort Smith, Ursula, Washburn, West Hartford, White Bluff, Witcherville
