Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population was 17,609. The county has two county seats, Corning and Piggott. It is a dry county.
When Clay County was created as Arkansas's 67th county on March 24, 1873 (alongside Baxter County), it was named Clayton County. Though the name was shortened two years later by the Arkansas General Assembly, the designation of John M. Clayton as the person for whom the cou...
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Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population was 17,609. The county has two county seats, Corning and Piggott. It is a dry county.
When Clay County was created as Arkansas's 67th county on March 24, 1873 (alongside Baxter County), it was named Clayton County. Though the name was shortened two years later by the Arkansas General Assembly, the designation of John M. Clayton as the person for whom the county was named was not changed.
The first county seat was Corning, established in 1873, with the arrival of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, as the first incorporated town in the county. The county seat was moved to Boydsville in 1877, though, because people living east of the Black and Cache Rivers had difficulty getting to Corning during flood season. This caused trouble for those living west of the rivers, however, and in 1881 Corning was re-established as the seat of the Western District, with Boydsville remaining the seat...
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