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Yell County, Arkansas
1895 Map of Yell County, Arkansas, Courtesy of Pam R.
(Click the map to visit her site and find more old maps
of Arkansas.)
Yell County,
named after the second Governor of Arkansas, Archibald Yell, was created on
05 December 1840 from parts of Pope and Scott Counties.
Yell County
is, also, nicknamed the "Free State of Yell," due to a district
wide election held a number of years back, in which voters cast numerous
votes from a candidate from Yell County, that put him over the top. It was
then joked that "...Yell County could turn out enough voters to
achieve statehood..." [Foster 2]
The county
seats of Yell County are Danville and Dardanelle. The Dardanelle courthouse
(Pictured above--Courtesy of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program)
was built in 1914, designed by architect Frank W. Gibb, and is now on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Photograph of the Petit Jean River Valley in Western
Yell County from atop Mt. Magazine. In the distance you can see the
northern edge of the Ouachita Mountains. Courtesy of John M. Foster, Jr.
Yell County's
population was 21,139 in the 2000 US Census, a growth of 3,380 from the
1990 US Census, with Dardanelle being the largest city in the County. The
County is comprised of 928 square miles. The main industry in Yell County
is the production of poultry, with three processing plants and numerous
poultry farms.
  
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