Phillips County was established in 1820 from a portion of Arkansas County. It was named for pioneer settler Sylvanus Phillips. Helena-West Helena serves as the county seat.
A list of the Phillips County records microfilm available at the Arkansas State Archives can be found in our County records microfilm collection.
The results below are automatically collected from materials on this site that have been tagged with the Geographical Area of “Phillips County (Ark.)” This list does not include all of the Arkansas State Archives’ materials regarding this county, but provides a starting point for research. Please click on each title below to learn more about it and the collection to which it belongs.
Submissions from 2020
Census: Phillips County 1830 Index
Census: Phillips County, Real Estate Wealth 1860
Civil War: Battle of L'Anguille Ferry
Early Arkansas tax records [Phillips County]
Phillips County, Arkansas. Plat map T. 1N., R. 2E. "Showing Big Creek"
Phillips County, Arkansas. Plat map T. 2S., R. 2E. "Showing St. Francis Trail"
Phillips County, Arkansas. Plat map T. 2S., R. 3E
Phillips County, Arkansas. Plat map T. 3 and 4 S., E. R. 4 and 5 E. "On Mississippi River"
Phillips County, Arkansas. Plat map T. 3S., R. 2E. "Showing Big Creek"
Phillips County, Arkansas. Plat map T. 3S., R. 3 E. "Old Town Lake"
Submissions from 2019
Submissions from 2003
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Submissions from 1985
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Submissions from 1975
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Submissions from 1974
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Submissions from 1971
Postal Map of Phillips County, Arkansas
Postal Map of Phillips County, J M. Massey
Submissions from 1967
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Submissions from 1963
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Pulaski County (Ark.) Court records, 1829-1963
Pulaski County Court records contains agreements, contracts, criminal court cases, civil cases, correspondence to judges and companies, liquor licenses, petitions, currency checks, indentures, bonds, reports, and other miscellaneous legal documents.
Submissions from 1958
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, Phillips County
Images from 1954
Submissions from 1951
Submissions from 1937
Images from 1936
May 1, Walter J. Lemke
Submissions from 1933
Images from 1930
Phillips County townships map, 1930
Submissions from 1926
Submissions from 1919
World War I Record of Descendants of Confederate Soldiers from Phillips County, 1918-1919
This collection contains notes on soldiers from Phillips County.
Submissions from 1917
Submissions from 1912
Submissions from 1911
Map of Phillips County, Arkansas
Submissions from 1909
James M. Hanks diaries, 1865-1909
This collection contains diaries addressing personal, political, business, and religious matters.
James R. Turner papers, 1839-1909
This collection contains invitations and programs of various social activities in and around Poplar Grove, Helena, and Marvell, Phillips County, Arkansas, including Knights of Honor and Knights and Ladies of Honor events that were attended by James R. Turner. There are also items related to President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Little Rock in 1905. Other items in the collection include a Justice of the Peace commission for William Turner (James R. Turner's father) and a land grant issued to Walter and Sarah Burress.
Submissions from 1889
H.H. Hutchinson certificate of appointment, 1889
This collection contains one certificate of appointment.
Submissions from 1881
Phillips County (Ark.) administrator's sale notice, 1881 July 18
This collection contains an administrator's sale notice for Greenfield Quarles, administrator of the James Weatherly estate in Phillips County, Arkansas.
Submissions from 1879
Administrator's sale notice, 1879 March 10
The broadside in this collection is dated March 10, 1879.
Books from 1868
Update to the Register of Legal Voters of Phillips County
Submissions from 1860
Rabb swamp land certificates, 1859-1860
This collection contains three certificates for payments due to Mrs. H.A. Rabb for having levees built in the Helena Swamp Land District, Phillips County.
Books from 1856
Books from 1854
Books from 1851
Books from 1848
Submissions from 1829
Phillips County (Ark.) sheriff's census, 1829
This census was conducted by the sheriff of Phillips County, Arkansas Territory, Henry L. Biscoe, in 1829.
Submissions from 1825
Phillips County tax list, 1825
This collection contains a list of errors on the territorial real estate tax list for Phillips County, Arkansas. The county judge ordered the list be audited by the Auditor of the Territory of Arkansas.