Yell County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,185. The county has two county seats, Dardanelle and Danville. Yell County is Arkansas's 42nd county, formed on December 5, 1840, from portions of Scott and Pope counties. It was named after Archibald Yell, who was the state's first member of the United States House of Representatives and the second governor of Arkansas. He died in combat at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican–American War.
Highway 22 is an east–west state highway in the Arkansas River Valley. It is maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD). The highway runs 75.60 miles (121.67 km) from US 64/US 71B east to Highway 7 in Dardanelle. Following the historic stagecoach line of the cross-country Butterfield Trail, the highway is one of the original 1926 state highways. It is designated by the AHTD as the True Grit Trail.
Arkansas Highway 10 is an east–west state highway in West Arkansas. The route runs 135.41 miles (217.92 km) from Oklahoma State Highway 120 near Hackett east to Interstate 30 in Little Rock, the state's capitol. The highway serves both the Fort Smith metropolitan area and the Little Rock – North Little Rock – Conway metropolitan area.
The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site is located in Hope, Arkansas. Built in 1917 by Dr. H. S. Garrett, in this house the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, spent the first four years of his life, having been born on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. The house was owned by Clinton's maternal grandparents, Edith Grisham and James Eldridge Cassidy, and they cared for him when his mother, Virginia, was away working as an anesthetist in New Orleans.
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Mountain View Farm is a historic farm property in rural Yell County, Arkansas. It is located at the eastern end of County Road 218, south of Plainview. The main house is a two-story American Foursquare structure, built out of brick and covered by a hip roof. A two-story porch extends across the front, with spindled balustrades and exposed rafters. It was built in 1917 for Richard Tippy, and is one of the finest period farmhouses in the Plainview area.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yell County, Arkansas.
Frank W. Gibb was an architect in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Western Yell County School District is public school district based in the rural, distant community of Havana, Arkansas, United States. The school district provides early childhood, elementary and secondary education from prekindergarten through grade 12. The district encompasses 154.47 square miles (400.1 km2) of land of western Yell County communities to include: Havana, Belleville, a part of Corinth. It is the smallest of four public school districts in Yell County with two facilities and serving approximately 500 students per year.
The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 200 North Second Street in Dardanelle, Arkansas. It is a roughly rectangular masonry structure, built out of buff-colored brick and light stone trim. Its front facade consists of a pair of quoined and crenellated tower-like sections flanking a four-column pedimented gable portico, which shelters the entrance. Built in 1912–14, it is locally distinctive for its Classical Revival architecture, and for its Akron Plan interior.
The Yell County Courthouse is a courthouse in Dardanelle, Arkansas, United States, one of two county seats of Yell County, built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The courthouse is the second building to serve the Dardanelle district of Yell County.
The Bryant-Lasater House is a historic house at 770 North Main Street in Mulberry, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, set on a foundation of molded concrete blocks, with a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof, and a hip-roof porch extending across the front. A rear porch has been enclosed. Built c. 1900, the house is locally distinctive for its architecture, as a particularly large example of a pyramid-roofed house, and for its historical role as the home of a succession of locally prominent doctors, including Dr. O. J. Kirksey, who operated a maternity hospital in the house.
Brearley Cemetery, founded in 1847, is the oldest cemetery in the city of Dardanelle, Arkansas. It is located on the north side of Arkansas Highway 27, west of its junction with Arkansas Highway 22. The cemetery, still in active use, houses more than 2,000 burials, many of the descendants of the early Czech immigrants to the area. One marker, possibly a memorial marker, bears the date 1780, but its provenance and significance has not been established. A 15-acre (6.1 ha) section on the eastern side of the cemetery, where its oldest burials are located, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The Kimball House is a historic house at 713 North Front Street in Dardanelle, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a hip roof, with a single-story porch extending across the front, supported by square posts with chamfered corners and moulded capitals. The building corners have brick quoining, and the roof eave has paired brackets in the Italianate style. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings. Built in 1876, it is one of the city's finest examples of Italianate architecture.
The Mitchell House is a historic house in rural Yell County, Arkansas. It is located on the north side of Arkansas Highway 80, east of the Waltreak Methodist Church, in a northeastern finger of the Ouachita National Forest. The house is a single-story dogtrot structure, with a gable roof and a cross-gabled rear kitchen ell. The central breezeway has been enclosed, and houses the building entrance, which is sheltered by a shed-roof porch artfully decorated with vernacular woodwork. Built in 1891, it is one of the few 19th-century buildings surviving in the area, and is a well-preserved and unusual example of the dogtrot form.
The Petit Jean River Bridge was a historic bridge in rural northeastern Yell County, Arkansas. It is located north of Ola, and carries County Road 49 across the Petit Jean River. It was a single-span Pratt through truss, with a truss length of 119 feet (36 m) long, and a total structure length of 159 feet (48 m). The trusses rest on concrete pillars. The bridge was 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, allowing for a single lane of traffic. Built in 1930, it was one of three Pratt truss bridges in the county. On February 1, 2019, the bridge was destroyed by an undertrained trucker who was unable to comprehend the clearly marked weight limits of the structure
The Spring Lake Bridge is a historic bridge in the eastern part of Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, carrying County Road 35 across an inlet of Spring Lake known as Bob Barnes Branch, in the Spring Lake Recreation Area with the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest. It is a two-span closed-spandrel stone arch bridge with a total length of 36 feet (11 m). Each arch is 10 feet (3.0 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) high. Built in 1936 with federal funding, it is one of the state's finest examples of a stone arch bridge.
The Steamboat House is an historic house at 601 North Front Street in Dardanelle, Arkansas. A two-story wood-frame structure, it has cross-gabled roof and weatherboard siding. It is trimmed in the Carpenter Gothic style, with an open single-story porch that has turned posts and a spindled frieze. On the second floor there are doors leading to small balconies with similar decoration. The house was built about 1890, and is a local example of the Steamboat gothic style.
