Showing Family Maps of Benton County, Arkansas by Gregory A. Boyd

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: DecadeParcel-count 1830s3 1840s488 1850s1487 1860s1026 1870s579 1880s1364 1890s1390 1900s947 1910s648 1920s98 1930s5 1940s1 1950s9 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 (histo