Covering a total area of 564.87 sq mi and having a total population of over 13K with marvelous combination of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 5.4K housing units and 3.9K families, Martin County has its county seat in Ashdown. The county was established in 1867 and was named after the Little River.

People today can trace out their own family history and other ancestral background easily at a great comfort and convenience than before. Records regarding birth, death news, marriage, divorce decree information, immigration and naturalization details along with census index, military service records, adoption details, property, deeds and land records, probates and liens, war records including civil wars and World War I&II thus eventually helps to establish the factual truths of the ancient days at an ease.