County History

COUNTY HISTORY

Sevier County Arkansas Genealogy Trails

1872 COUNTY DESCRIPTION

POST OFFICES--PAST AND PRESENT

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1872 COUNTY DESCRIPTION

Contributed by Candi Horton

SEVIER lies in the southwest, adjoining the Indian Nation; population, 4,492. Paraclifta is the county site. Land mountainous and hilly, with narrow valleys in the northern part; the southern is gently rolling or mostly level. The black lands in this county are exceedingly fertile, producing one bale of cotton, fifty to sixty bushels of corn to the acre; one field of 250 acres yielded 325 bales of cotton; the upland soil produces thirty-five bushels of corn or twenty bushels of wheat to the arce. This county is remarkably rich in minerals. There are the Bellah lead and silver mines; the ore assays 73 per cent of lead. A ton of lead yielded 5921 ounces of silver. A ton of this ore, sent to England, yielded 73 per cent of lead and 148 ounces of silver. Slate quarries, superior to the best Vermont. slate, chalk marble, marly limestone, beds of iron ore, and the Graham salt mines are also here. All these mines can be worked at a great profit. The Cairo and Fulton railroad will run near this county, and the Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River railroad will run through this county.

Source: Henry, James P.; Resources of the state of Arkansas,: with description of counties, railroads, mines, and the city of Little Rock;.Little Rock, Ark.: Price & McClure, 1872

POST OFFICES--PAST AND PRESENT
Abney (1907-1909)
Adrian (1858-1866)
Allensville (1860-1866)
Antimony (1887-1916)
Avon (1898-1905)
Bellville (1860-1867)
Belton (1892-1897)
Ben Lomond (1868-Date)
Black Colony (1879-1880)
Brownstown (1846/1868)
Brownstown (1880-1927)
Burlingame (1900-1902)
Cassetot (1884-1885)
Chapel Hill (1877/1906)
Cheatham (1904-1918)
Corn (1902-1903)
Cornhill (1903-1925)
Cosatot (1896-1897)
Cossatot (1874/1917)
Cossitat (1828-1834)
Cossotot Mines (1878-1879)
DeQueen (1897-Date)
Dilworth (1903-1905)
Eden (1903-1910)
Edwin (1890-1891)
Eggville (1901-1902)
Farmington (1851-1860)
Farribaville (1868/1903)
Fort Towson (1832-1847)
Geneva (1910-1911)
Giddings (1901-1902)
Gilham (1897-Date)
Halcomb (1890-1905)
Horatio (1895-Date)
Hortense (1901-1905)
Jordanbrook (1879-1900)
King (1906-1966)
Lebanon (1890-1919)
Lemric (1890-1900)
Lions Beard (1849-1855)
Little River Lick (1831-1833)
Lockesburg (1893-Date)
Lockesburgh (1870/1914)
Lyons Beard (1848-1849)
Marlow (1901-1916)
McRae (1886-1889)
Milford (1892-1916)
Milura (1898-1899)
Mineral (1905-1954)
Mineral Hill (1852/1859)
Nance (1898-1899)
Neal Springs (1900/1917)
Nelta Boc (1857/1877)
Norwoodsville (1855/1905)
Otis (1910-1915)
Paraclifta (1830/1909)
Paraloma (1907-1954)
Petty (1887-1902)
Pine Woods (1833-1846)
Provo (1903/1954)
Pullman (1899-1904)
Red Colony (1860-1860)
Redhill (1909-1911)
Riddle (1895-1914)
Roundtop (1915-1921)
Silver Hill (1874-1897)
Stuart (1908/1918)
Sweet Home (1872-1873)
Thelma (1906/1908)
Ultima Thule (1833/1907)
Walnut Prairie (1833-1835)
West Line (1922-1927)
White Oak Shoals (1858-1867)
Yarkville (1873-1875)
Yorkville (1875/1878)

Source: Used with permission from Jim Forte at http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp