History of Fulton County, Arkansas

From Resources of the State of Arkansas, published in 1872, by James P. Henry.

Fulton County adjoins Missouri on the north; population 4,843. Pilot Hill is the county site. Timber, red, black and whit oak, hickory ash, grape vines and hazel; land, a series of ridges and valleys with clear running streams; soil, mulatto barren, soft permeable, producing abundant crops of corn, fifty to sixty bushels, and wheat twenty-five to thirty bushels to the acre; splendid for fruit; good for stock, especially sheep; rich in minerals and metals. The celebrated Mammoth Spring is here. The St. Louis, Batesville and Little Rock railroad will run through the eastern part of this county.