The Baxter County Courthouse is located at, 1 East 7th Street, Mountain Home, AR 72653. Phone: 870-425-3475.
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Baxter County [†] was formed from part of Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy Counties on March 24, 1873. The county was named after then-Governor Elisha Baxter of Brooks-Baxter War fame (Baxter was Governor of AR from 1873-74; Baxter was a native Unionist ["scalawag"] who fought Joseph Brooks [Minstrel or "carpetbagger"] for the governorship).
Rachel Silva and Amy Milliken, Walks Through History, 2017, www.arkansasheritage.com, accessed January, 2023.