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Territory acquired by the United States in 1825 from the Osage Indians established what now comprises Crawford County, named in honor of William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury under President Monroe.  The county’s two story brick, Italianate style courthouse, constructed in 1842 and rebuilt after it burned in 1877, stands today as the oldest, still-functioning courthouse in the State and as a historic landmark within the Van Buren Main Street National Historic District.

Present day Crawford County covers a land area of 596 square miles and is bounded by the Oklahoma border on the west, the Arkansas River on the south and the scenic Boston Mountains Range of the Ozark Mountains to the north.  About half of the county’s residents live within its nine incorporated cities of Van Buren, Alma, Cedarville, Chester, Dyer, Kibler, Mountainburg, Mulberry, and Rudy.

For More Information Contact:

Crawford County Courthouse
300 Main Street, Room 4
Van Buren, AR 72956

Phone: 479-474-1511 FAX: 479-474-3201

Crawford County Courthouse, Van Buren:

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