Baxter  County

Baxter County was formed on March 24, 1873, from parts of Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy counties, and was named for Elisha Baxter, then Governor of Arkansas. Mountain Home is the county seat. The landscape of Baxter County is rugged and mountainous. The county courthouse sits between two of the state’s largest lakes, Bull Shoals and Norfolk. The third floor rooms of the courthouse were added between 1908 and 1912 to give a third floor because the previous courthouse only had two stories, and in the early nineteen hundreds another thriving town in Baxter County was trying to get to be the county seat, therefore the Arkansas Legislature passed an Act requiring the courthouse to have three stories; thus, a third story was built in a hurry. The courthouse is located fourteen miles from the oldest courthouse in Arkansas, the log house of Major Wolfe, built in 1809 and still standing at the town of Norfolk. Over the past three decades, the population of Baxter County has boomed. Much of the county’s growth and more than half its tax dollars can be traced to tourism and retirement. Visitors often return to take up residence. Other resources include a technical campus of Arkansas State University and a fine regional medical center located in Mountain Home. The county has a large water-base recreation such as the White River, North Fork River, Lake Norfork, Bull Shoals Lake and the Buffalo National River.

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County Officials				Phone		Fax		E-Mail
County Judge		Joe Bodenhamer		(870) 425-2755		(870) 425-8633		bxcountyjudge@centurytel.net
County Clerk		Rhonda J. Porter		(870) 425-3475		(870) 424-5105		baxterclerk@centurytel.net
Circuit Clerk		Rhonda J. Porter		(870) 425-3475		(870) 424-5105		baxterclerk@centurytel.net
County Sheriff		John Montgomery		(870) 425-7000		(870) 424-4048		jmontgomery@baxtercountysheriff.com
County Collector		Willa Mae Tilley		(870) 425-8300		(870) 425-3565		wmtilley@centurytel.net
County Treasurer		Nelda Speaks		(870) 425-3444		(870) 424-4415		nspeaks@baxtercounty.org
County Assessor		Barry Bossier		(870) 425-3453		(870) 425-2527		baxtercoassessor@gmail.com
County Coroner		William R. Snow		(870) 425-3208
Justice of the Peace		Leon Alexander
Justice of the Peace		Kevin Bodenhamer
Justice of the Peace		Richard Caster
Justice of the Peace		Dick House
Justice of the Peace		David Lemoine
Justice of the Peace		Steve Litty
Justice of the Peace		Neal Pendergrass
Justice of the Peace		Wade Robson
Justice of the Peace		Gary Smith
Justice of the Peace		Ed Toscano
Justice of the Peace		Eddie White