Included here are the Southwest region of Arkansas sections of 4 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1855 map that shows the area of Hempstead County, Arkansas.  Locations shown: Clarks Mills * Columbus * Fulton * Graves * Justus Mills * Marlbrook * Mine Cr. * Spring Hill * Washington *

B. A map of 1895 Hempstead County showing the locations of 26 different settlements including all of the following: Arcadia * Barker * Bills * Clow * Columbus * Compton * Corinth * Dotson * Dunlap * Fay * Fulton * Guernsey * Hervey * Hope * Lively * Long Springs * Nashville * Ozan * Ozan Junction * Payton * Sheppard * Spring Hill * Wallaceburg * Washington * Westbrook * Wildcat *

C. A map of 1898 Hempstead County showing the locations of 28 different settlements including all of the following: Arcadia * Bingen * Clow * Columbus * Compton * De Ann * Dotson * Doyle * Eleyville * Fulton * Garlandville * Guernsey * Hope * Jakajones * Lively * Ozan * Pauton * Serdis * Shelton * Sheppard * Shover Springs * Spring Hill * Spudel * Switch * Virginius * Wallaceburg * Washington * Wood *

D. A map of 1915 Hempstead County showing the locations of 26 different settlements including all of the following: Bellair * Belton * Bingen * Blevins * Clow * Coler * Columbus * Compton * Deaneyville * Dolph * Dotson * Drab * Fulton * Guernsey * Hope * Jackajones * Kilgore * McCaskill * Ozan * Patmos * Sheppard * Shover Springs * Tokio * Washington * Westbrook * Yancy *

Section Two of Two, ALL on one CD: The complete 1890 "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas" by the Goodspeed Publishing Company
This detailed (82 pages in all) book has a large amount of information about Hempstead County, Arkansas from its earliest settlement up to 1890. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Hempstead County, Arkansas including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 131 different family biographies.
 

Here is just some of the information included:

Partial Contents

Hempstead County Organized

Boundaries

Topography

Timber

Lands and Minerals

Rivers and Streams

Springs

Wildlife

Early Settlers and Settlement in Hempstead County

Military Roads in Hempstead County

Hempstead County Organized

Courts of Hempstead County

Hempstead County Officials

Erection of Hempstead County Public Buildings

Hempstead County Bar

The Civil War and Hempstead County

Population

Railroads in Hempstead County

Agricultural Resources

Hempstead County Towns, Villages, Post-Offices: * Barker * Bingen * Columbus * De Ann * Fay (Dooley’s Ferry) * Fulton * Guernsey * Hope * Ozan * Sardis * Spring Hill * Shover’s Spring * Wallaceburg * Washington *

Schools in Hempstead County

Hempstead County Church History

Hempstead County Biographical Sketches (64 pages in this section)

Included is a total of 131 Hempstead County family biographies including each of the following surnames: (Some surnames have multiple biographies) (hundreds of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Adams * Anderson * Austin * Baird * Baxter * Beaty * Beene * Benson * Betts * Black * Booker * Bostick * Bowden * Boyett * Breed * Briant * Bridewell * Brown * Brundridge * Bryant * B'Shers * Butler * Carrigan * Carruth * Chambless * Clark * Clingan * Compton * Conway * Cooley * Crossett * Cummings * Daniel * Dyke * Eakin * Eley * Ellis * Forney * Foster * Frederick * Garner * Gibson * Gilbert * Goodlett * Hancock * Hannah * Hawthorn * Hendrix * Holman * Holt * Honeycutt * Hubbard * Jett * Johnson * Jones * Justus * King * Kinser * Kitchens * Knobel * Laseter * Leslie * Lewis * Martin * Mayton * McCollum * McLarty * McMonigle * Mendenhall * Miles * Montgomery * Moses * Nichols * Parker * Peyton * Phillips * Powell * Prather * Purdom * Purtte * Reed * Rhodes * Richardson * Roberson * Robins * Royston * Sandefur * Scoggin * Searcy * Simms * Smith * Stephens * Stuart * Stuckey * Taylor * Thompson * Todd * Tribble * Tullis * Vickers * Volentine * Wallace * Ward * Ware * Watson * Webb * West * Westmoreland * Whaley * White * Williams * Williamson * Willson * Wimberly * Wolff * Wood * Wootten *

Hempstead County is located in Southwest Arkansas and is bordered by the following counties: Howard County, Arkansas * Pike County, Arkansas * Nevada County, Arkansas * Lafayette County, Arkansas * Miller County, Arkansas * and Little River County, Arkansas (highlighted county names can be clicked on for further description)