Stone County, Arkansas Birth Records

 

Birth records are created at the time a child is born. These records are usually created at a hospital and the attending doctor and a nurse will witness and sign the birth certificate. Primary source records such as birth records serve as the main form of identification for a person, and are used to obtain other secondary forms of identification. Historians and those doing genealogy searches will also show great interest in their ancestor’s birth records, as they contain many of that person’s vital statistics.

 

There were a total of125 births recorded in the calendar year 2005 for Stone County, Arkansas. You can read these and further birth statistics broken down by county and year for the State of Arkansas by clicking this link: http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/stats/2005vital/ANN28.HTM.

 

Only relatives, a person’s legal counsel or representative, and certain academic groups can gain access to a person’s birth records before the record is 100 years old in Arkansas. After this point, the record will be public information.

 

Local Birth Records

 

If you want to search and access the local birth records in Stone County, Arkansas, you can petition the local health unit. The health unit in Stone County is located at 107 West Main, Mountain View, AR 72560. The phone number to the health unit is 870-269-5550, and the fax number is 870-269-9058. Their standard walk-in hours are from 8:00a.m. – 4:30p.m., Monday through Friday.

 

State Birth Records

 

Birth records for Arkansas have been compiled by the Arkansas Department of Health, dating all the way back to February of 1914, and they do not guarantee birth records for an earlier date will be housed there. The health department is located at 4815 West Markham Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205. If you need more information on the process of accessing birth records in Stone County, visit the health department’s web page at the following link: http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programsServices/certificatesVitalRecords/Pages/BirthRecords.aspx. You can even download a birth certificate application in PDF format at this website by clicking on this link: http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programsServices/certificatesVitalRecords/Documents/vr-7_birth_certificate_application.pdf.