Family Maps of Benton County, Arkansas, Deluxe Edition: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More

440 pages with 110 total maps
Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Benton County, Arkansas, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries.
Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds.

The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s.
What's Mapped in this book
8020 Parcels of Land (with and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)
113 Cemeteries plus Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc.

Counts for parcels of land mapped, by decade in which corresponding land patents were issued:
Decade Parcel-count
1830s 3
1840s 488
1850s 1487
1860s 1026
1870s 579
1880s 1364
1890s 1390
1900s 947
1910s 648
1920s 98
1930s 5
1940s 1
1950s 9

What Cities/Towns are in Benton County Accident, Apple Spur, Avoca, Beacon Addition, Beaty, Beaver Shores, Bella Vista, Bella Vista, Bentonville, Bethel Heights, Blackjack Corner, Bland, Bloomfield, Bozarth (historical), Brightwater, Buttry (historical), Calis (historical), Cannon (historical), Castleville (historical), Cave (historical), Cave Springs, Caverna, Centerton, Chambers Spring (historical), Checks Corner (historical), Cherokee City, Clantonville, Clear Point, Clementine (historical), Colville (historical), Cottage Hill (historical), Creech, Cross Hollow, Cross Roads (historical), Crown (historical), Crump (historical), Dawn Hill, Decatur, Dorsey (historical), Dug Hill, Eagle Corner, Eldorado Springs (historical), Electric Springs (historical), Elkhorn Tavern, Fairmount, Falling Springs, Felker (historical), Flint (historical), Freeman (historical), Frisco, Frisco Springs (historical), Gallatin, Gallatin (historical), Garfield, Gateway, Gentry, Glade, Gravette, Green Acres, Hart (historical), Healing Springs, Hickory Creek, Hico, Highfill, Hill Top, Hiwasse, Hoover (historical), Hurd (historical), Ionia, Jaybird (historical), Key (historical), Lake Frances, Lakeland Hills, Larue, Lee (historical), Leetown, Liberty (historical), Line Store (historical), Little Flock, Logan, Lone Elm (historical), Lost Bridge Village, Lowell, Martin, Mason Valley, Maysville, Miller, Miller Springs (historical), Monte Ne, Monte Ne Shores, Nebo, Norwood, Oak Grove, Osage Mills, Osborn (historical), Pactolus (historical), Parn (historical), Pea Ridge, Pedro, Pine Top, Pippin (historical), Pleasant Hill, Pleasant Ridge, Pleasure Heights, Pond (historical), Prairie Creek, Puckett (historical), Race (historical), Rago, Rambo Riviera, Rivercliff Estates, Robinson, Rocky Comfort, Rocky Comfort (historical), Rogers, Rome City (historical), Round Top (historical), Seba, Sedalia (historical), Silent Grove, Siloam Springs, Silver Springs (historical), Spring Creek, Springtown, Sulphur Springs, Summit (historical), Tanglewood, Trammell (historical), Trident, Twin Springs (subdivision), Vaughn, Vista Shores, Vogel (historical), Wager (historical), Walnut Hill, Wann (historical), War Eagle, West Point, Woods (historical)