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

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 Boone 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.

List of Details Found Below . . .
What's Mapped in his book?
What YEARS are these maps for?
What Cities and Towns are in Boone County, Arkansas (and in this book)?
Acts of Congress Authorizing . . .
Indexes in this book
Reviews by the Experts . . .
Surnames found in this book
Book Specifications

What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . .
6002 Parcels of Land
(with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)
59 Cemeteries plus . . .
Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc.

What YEARS are these maps for?
Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued:
Decade Parcel-count
1840s 141
1850s 655
1860s 486
1870s 653
1880s 1184
1890s 1434
1900s 967
1910s 503
1920s 84
1930s 5
1940s 2
1950s 18

What Cities and Towns are in Boone County, Arkansas (and in this book)?
Alpena, Batavia, Bear Creek Springs, Bellefonte, Bellville, Bergman, Boone, Burlington, Capps, Chapman, Crawford, Crest, Cricket, Crumpler Subdivision, Diamond City, Dugger, Elmwood, Everton, Francis, Gaither, Grubb Springs, Harmon, Harrison, Hill Top, Hopewell, Keener, Lead Hill, Lick Branch, Little Arkansaw, Lowry, Mount Pleasant (historical), Myrtle, New Hope, Olvey, Omaha, Oregon (historical), Pedlo (historical), Pleasant Ridge, Prosperity, Rally Hill, Red Bank, Ridgeway, Self, Shaver (historical), South Lead Hill, Sycamore, Valley Springs, Watkins (historical), Willis, Winington, Wooden Hills, Zinc