Welcome to Van Buren County!
My name is Gina Heffernan and I'm a Temporary County Coordinator. If you have any suggestions or material to share, please click the Contact Me button up there. This site is a proud member of The ARGenWeb Project and The USGenWeb® Project! If you can't find what you need here, check the Archives. VBC = Van Buren County.On this site, you'll find references to townships. There are two kinds of townships. The first is a land-based description depending on where something is located in a series of mostly identical rectangles marked in grid fashion on maps which you can find here on the Land Records page, these townships are numbered consecutively. The other type of township is an area set up for governmental purposes like census enumerations, those townships are generally named. We also have some rough maps of those.
VBC is a Gold Star County!
In Memory of Shirley Cullum (1946-2019),
Van Buren County Coordinator, 2015-2019
Van Buren County Coordinator, 2015-2019
This page is dedicated to the years of hard work by past County Coordinators Shirley Cullum, Dennis Earle (2009-2014) and Lynn Risener (1996-2009) as well as the countless committed contributors, who made it what it is today.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Resources
The RootsWeb message board still works and is still being used.The RootsWeb Mailing Lists were discontinued on 2 March 2020. I have no plans to create a new mailing list.
On-Site
Off-site
Books
- Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas. (1889). Chicago, Nashville and St Louis: The Goodspeed Publishing Company.
- Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. (1891). Chicago and Nashville: The Southern Publishing Company.
- History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian counties, Arkansas. (1889). Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company.
- Shinn, Josiah Hazen. Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas. (1908). Baltimore: Genealogical and Historical Publishing Company.
- Clark, Ruby Neel. A History of Van Buren County, 1833-1983. (1976). Sesquicentennial Committee. [I've not found a local or Internet copy but we have a surname index on this site.]
Newspapers
- Arkansas Gazette, 1819-1991
- Arkansas Democrat, 1878-1991
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1991-present
- Clinton Banner, 1880-1885
- Clinton Democrat, 18??-19??
- The Laborer's Guide, 1885-????
- The Mountain Echo, 1888
- Shirley Enterprise, 1915-19??
- Van Buren County Banner
- Van Buren County Democrat, 1887-18??
- Van Buren County Democrat, 1909-present
- Van Buren County Journal, 1901-1908