{"id":1021,"date":"2016-11-14T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shct.wpengine.com\/springdale\/?page_id=1021"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:54:57","slug":"baxter-county-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/county-2\/baxter-county-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baxter County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baxter County is located in the north-central section of Arkansas and is approximately 600 square miles. Baxter County has elevations ranging from 800 to 1,400 feet. Baxter County was formed on March 24, 1873, from parts of Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy Counties and was named for Elisha Baxter, then the governor of Arkansas. Mountain Home is the County seat.<\/p>\n<h2>Government (officials &amp; information)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxtercounty.org\/judge.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxtercountysheriff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheriff<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/argis.ualr.edu\/DistrictFinder\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Representatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstates.org\/ar\/bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Legislation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Healthy Aging Resources (support entities)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaanwar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Area Agency on Aging of NWA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthy.arkansas.gov\/programsServices\/localPublicHealthOffices\/Pages\/huDetails.aspx?show=Baxter%20County%20Health%20Unit%20-%20Mt.%20Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Department<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Health Statistics (health rankings)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uams.edu\/phacs\/countyprofiles\/baxtercounty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHACS Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countyhealthrankings.org\/app\/arkansas\/2016\/rankings\/baxter\/county\/outcomes\/overall\/snapshot?preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWJ Health Ranking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baxter County is located in the north-central section of Arkansas and is approximately 600 square miles. Baxter County has elevations ranging from 800 to 1,400 feet. Baxter County was formed on March 24, 1873, from parts of Fulton, Izard, Marion, and Searcy Counties and was named for Elisha Baxter, then the governor of Arkansas. Mountain&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/county-2\/baxter-county-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"parent":2506,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions\/10345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}