Garland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2000 census, the population was 88,068 although 2008 estimates range from 90,000 to 110,000. The county seat is Hot Springs. Garland County is Arkansas's 68th county, formed on April 5, 1873, and named for Augustus Garland, eleventh governor of Arkansas.

The county is coextensive with the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Hot Springs National Park. Garland County was formed from Montgomery.

Hot Spring and Saline Counties on April 5, 1873, and named for Augustus H. Garland, Governor of Arkansas, U.S. senator, and Grover Cleveland's attorney general. Hot Springs is the county seat of Garland County. In 1905 the old Garland County Courthouse, located downtown, was a victim of a disastrous fire which destroyed more than twenty blocks of the city of Hot Springs, and the present courthouse was built in 1905.