Baxter County, Arkansas

1 E 7th St Room 103
Mountain Home, AR 72653
Phone: (870) 425-3475
Fax: (870) 424-5105
www.baxtercounty.org

On central-northern border of AR; organized Mar 24, 1873 from Fulton County. Name Origin: For Elisha Baxter (1827-99), AR legislator, chief justice (1864), circuit judge (1868-72), and governor (1872-74)

Area (sq mi):: 586.74 (land 554.36; water 32.38) Population per square mile: 72.80
Population 2005: 40,330 State rank: 18 Population change: 2000-20005 5.10%; 1990-2000 23.10% Population 2000: 38,386 (White 97.10%; Black or African American 0.10%; Hispanic or Latino 1.00%; Asian 0.30%; Other 1.70%). Foreign born: 1.60%. Median age: 48.10
Income 2000: per capita $16,859; median household $29,106; Population below poverty level: 11.10% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $22,026-$24,535
Unemployment (2004): 5.80% Unemployment change (from 2000): 0.10% Median travel time to work: 18.40 minutes Working outside county of residence: 10.60%

Cities with population over 10,000:

Mountain Home County seat

(11,709)

See other counties in Arkansas.

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Baxter County, Ark., officials must pay more than $52,000 in legal fees to attorneys who challenged its refusal to allow a local humanist group to erect a holiday display.

Ark. County pays fees to nativity plaintiffs

Reynolds Library serving Baxter County, is on display on the second floor of the Vada Sheid Community Development Center through March 13.

Winners of the 9th Annual Amateur Digital Photography Contest have been named and ribbons have been hung as the entries travel around the community for viewers to admire

An Arkansas waste management district that owns a troubled landfill in north Baxter County has all the legal standing it needs to levy service fees on each residence or business within a six-county area to fix the landfill and provide solid waste collection services, according to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.

Arkansas DEQ claims district has authority to fund landfill fix, management plan

Rural counties with populations under 50,000 are also experiencing savings: $546,000 saved in Culpeper County, Va.; $341,000 in Buffalo County, Neb.; $184,000 in Baxter County, Ark.; $179,000 in Brookings County, S.D.; and $119,000 in Humboldt County, Iowa.

Program lends hand with cost of prescriptions

MARY HUDAK-LEE WAS EMPLOYED BY BAXTER COUNTY REGIONAL HOSPITAL SINCE 2006.

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commersonii was collected using a boat-mounted electrofisher, 200 m below the Norfork Dam, North Fork of the White River, Baxter County, Arkansas (36.14[degrees]N, 92.14[degrees]W).

Two noteworthy geographic distribution records for the white sucker, catostomus commersonii (cypriniformes: catostomidae), from northern arkansas

S&P rates Baxter County Regional Hospital's USD26m series 2010 bonds at BBB

Wells, adopted the identity of Donald Dahlke, an infant who died in Baxter County, Ark., in 1969.

'Baxter Bulletin' M.E. Arrested on Felony Charges For Helping Fugitive Brother

The farmland Baxter chose on the north side of tiny Mountain Home, an Ozark Mountain community a dozen miles from the Missouri border, proved a good fit for the comp any right down to the fact that it was located in Baxter County (named after a former Arkansas governor).

Baxter Mountain Home: A Small-Town's Claim to World-Class Fame

Integrity First holds the second-largest share of deposits in the $1 billiondeposit Baxter County market at nearly 21.5%, totaling $219 million.

Integrity First Transaction Tops $80M