The Izard County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square and

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, the county seat of

Izard County, Arkansas Izard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,696. The county seat is Melbourne. Izard County is Arkansas's 13th county, formed on October 27, 1825, and named for War of 1812 Gener ...

. It is a two-story structure, built of rusticated gray limestone, with modest

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styling. The grounds include a World War I memorial featuring a marble doughboy statue erected in 1930 in front of the courthouse. It was built in 1938–1940 by crews from the

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. It is the county's fourth courthouse, two of the first three having been destroyed by fire. The building was listed on the

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in 1993.

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