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1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900
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Arkansas 1,062 14,255 30,388 97,574 209,897 435,450 484,471 802,525 1,128,179 1,311,564
Arkansas - - 1,426 1,346 3,245 8,844 8,268 8,038 11,432 12,973
Ashley - - - - 2,058 8,590 8,042 10,156 13,295 19,734
Baxter - - - - - - - 6,004 8,527 9,298
Benton - - - 2,228 3,710 9,306 13,831 20,328 27,716 31,611
Boone - - - - - - 7,032 12,146 15,816 16,396
Bradley - - - - 3,829 8,388 8,646 6,285 7,972 9,651
Calhoun - - - - - 4,103 3,853 5,671 7,267 8,539
Carroll - - - 2,844 4,614 9,383 5,780 13,337 17,288 18,848
Chicot - - 1,165 3,806 5,115 9,234 7,214 10,117 11,419 14,528
Clark - 1,040 1,369 2,309 4,070 9,735 11,953 15,771 20,997 21,289
Clay - - - - - - - 7,213 12,200 15,886
Cleburne - - - - - - - - 7,884 9,628
Cleveland - - - - - - - - 11,362 11,620
Columbia - - - - - 12,449 11,397 14,090 19,893 22,077
Conway - - 982 2,892 3,583 6,697 8,112 12,755 19,459 19,772
Craighead - - - - - 3,066 4,577 7,037 12,025 19,505
Crawford - - 2,440 4,266 7,960 7,850 8,957 14,740 21,714 21,270
Crittenden - - 1,272 1,561 2,648 4,920 3,831 9,415 13,940 14,529
Cross - - - - - - 3,915 5,050 7,693 11,051
Dallas - - - - 6,877 8,283 5,707 6,505 9,296 11,518
Desha - - - 1,598 2,911 6,459 6,125 8,973 10,324 11,511
Dorsey - - - - - - - 8,370 - -
Drew - - - - 3,276 9,078 9,960 12,231 17,352 19,451
Faulkner - - - - - - - 12,786 18,342 20,780
Franklin - - - 2,665 3,972 7,298 9,627 14,951 19,934 17,395
Fulton - - - - 1,819 4,024 4,843 6,720 10,984 12,917
Garland - - - - - - - 9,023 15,328 18,773
Grant - - - - - - 3,943 6,185 7,786 7,671
Greene - - - 1,586 2,593 5,843 7,573 7,480 12,908 16,979
Hempstead - 2,246 2,512 4,921 7,672 13,989 13,768 19,015 22,796 24,101
Hot Spring - - 458 1,907 3,609 5,635 5,877 7,775 11,603 12,748
Howard - - - - - - - 9,917 13,789 14,076
Independence - - 2,031 3,669 7,767 14,307 14,566 18,086 21,961 22,557
Izard - - 1,266 2,240 1,266 7,215 6,806 10,857 13,038 13,506
Jackson - - 333 1,540 3,086 10,493 7,268 10,877 15,179 18,383
Jefferson - - 772 2,566 5,834 14,971 15,733 22,386 40,881 40,972
Johnson - - - 3,433 5,227 7,612 9,152 11,565 16,758 17,448
Lafayette - - 748 2,200 5,220 8,464 9,139 5,730 7,700 10,594
Lawrence - 5,592 2,806 2,835 5,274 9,372 5,981 8,782 12,984 16,491
Lee - - - - - - - 13,288 18,886 19,409
Lincoln - - - - - - - 9,255 10,255 13,389
Little River - - - - - - 3,236 6,404 8,903 13,731
Logan - - - - - - - 14,885 20,774 20,563
Lonoke - - - - - - - 12,146 19,263 22,544
Madison - - - 2,775 4,823 7,740 8,231 11,455 17,402 19,864
Marion - - 1,325 2,308 6,192 3,979 7,907 10,390 11,377
Miller* - 999 356 - - - - 9,919 14,714 17,558
Mississippi - - - - - 3,895 3,633 7,332 11,635 16,384
Monroe - - 461 936 2,049 5,657 8,336 9,574 15,336 16,816
Montgomery - - - - 1,958 3,633 2,984 5,729 7,923 9,444
Nevada - - - - - - - 12,959 14,832 16,609
Newton - - - - 1,758 3,393 4,374 6,120 9,950 12,538
Ouachita - - - - 9,591 12,936 12,975 11,758 17,033 20,892
Perry - - - - 978 2,465 2,685 3,872 5,538 7,294
Phillips - 1,197 1,152 3,547 6,935 14,877 15,372 21,262 25,341 26,561
Pike - - - 969 1,861 4,025 3,788 6,345 8,537 10,301
Poinsett - - - 1,320 2,308 3,621 1,720 2,192 4,272 7,025
Polk - - - - 1,263 4,262 3,376 5,857 9,283 18,352
Pope - - 1,483 2,850 4,710 7,883 8,386 14,322 19,458 21,715
Prairie - - - - 2,097 8,854 5,604 8,435 11,374 11,875
Pulaski - 1,921 2,395 5,350 5,657 11,699 32,066 32,616 47,329 63,179
Randolph - - - 2,196 3,275 6,261 7,466 11,724 14,485 17,156
St. Francis - - 1,505 2,499 4,479 8,672 6,714 8,389 13,543 17,157
Saline - - - 2,061 3,903 6,640 3,911 8,953 11,311 13,122
Scott - - - 1,694 3,083 5,145 7,483 9,174 12,635 13,183
Searcy - - - 936 1,979 5,271 5,614 7,278 9,664 11,988
Sebastian - - - - - 9,238 12,940 19,560 33,200 36,935
Sevier - - 634 2,810 4,240 10,516 4,492 6,192 10,072 16,339
Sharp - - - - - - 5,400 9,047 10,418 12,199
Stone - - - - - - - 5,089 7,043 8,100
Union - - 640 2,889 10,298 12,288 10,571 13,419 14,977 22,495
Van Buren - - - 1,518 2,864 5,357 5,107 9,565 8,567 11,220
Washington - - 2,182 7,148 9,970 14,673 17,266 23,844 32,024 34,256
White - - - 929 2,619 8,316 10,347 17,794 22,946 24,864
Woodruff - - - - - - 6,891 8,646 14,009 16,304
Yell - - - - 3,341 6,333 8,048 13,852 18,015 22,750
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* There were two Miller counties. The present one was created in 1875 from part of Lafayette county. The original one stridled the Red River with part in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and part that is now Texas.
Notes: (1) In 1810 there were no counties. (2) The following counties were created in the 1860's: Boone, Cross, Grant, Little River, Sharp, and Cross. (3) The following counties were created in the 1870's: Baxter, Clay, Dorsey, Faulkner, Garland, Howard, Lee, Lincoln, Logan, Lonoke, Miller, Nevada, and Stone.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, The Number of Inhabitants, Census years; 1990
Census of Population, Population & Housing Unit Counts, Arkansas Table 3.
Revised:January 22, 1998
Prepared by the Census State Data Center, Institute for Economic Advancement, College of Business
Administration, UALR.
