{"id":2624,"date":"2017-04-04T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shct.wpengine.com\/springdale\/?page_id=2624"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:01:21","slug":"izard-county-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/county-2\/izard-county-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Izard County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The County seat of Izard County is located in Melbourne, AR. Izard County was formed on October 27, 1825 as the 13th county of the Territory of Arkansas from parts of Independence County. It was named for George Izard, the second Governor of the territory. The county has a total area of 577.1 square miles, of which 573.5 square miles is land and 3.6 square miles is water. There are 8 municipalities within the county.<\/p>\n<h2>Government (officials &amp; information)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.izardcountyar.org\/judge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.izardcountysheriff.org\/\" 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\/izardcounty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHACS Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countyhealthrankings.org\/app\/arkansas\/2016\/rankings\/izard\/county\/outcomes\/overall\/snapshot?preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWJ Health Ranking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The County seat of Izard County is located in Melbourne, AR. Izard County was formed on October 27, 1825 as the 13th county of the Territory of Arkansas from parts of Independence County. It was named for George Izard, the second Governor of the territory. The county has a total area of 577.1 square miles,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/county-2\/izard-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\/2624"}],"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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/springdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624\/revisions\/10361"}],"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=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}