Perry County, AR

Perry County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its population was 10,209 at the 2000 United States Census. The county seat is Perryville. Perry County is included in the Little Rock-North Little Rock, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The center of population of Arkansas is located in the far northeast corner of Perry County.

The county was formed on December 18, 1840 and named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero in the War of 1812. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county.

Morrilton is a city in Conway County, Arkansas, 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Little Rock. In 1890, 1,644 people lived here; in 1900, 1,707; and in 1910, 2,424. The town was home to Harding College, now Harding University of Searcy, Arkansas, for about a decade in the 1920s and 1930s. The population was 6,550 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Conway County.

Bigelow is a town in Perry County, Arkansas, United States. Bigelow didn't exist by its current name until 1911. It used to be called "Esau" -- a community a few miles southwest of the present Toadsuck Ferry Bridge that grew to touch the edge of the small town of Fourche.

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