Bibb County, Alabama
Bibb County · Centreville, Alabama · the Cahaba seat sits here · Brent is not the hall
Centreville, Alabama, is the hall. Not Virginia. Not Macon-Bibb.
Bibb County, Alabama, was erected 7 February 1818 and named for William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama. Centreville, Alabama, is the seat. Brent is the largest city. Brent is not the county government. This is not Centreville, Virginia. This is not Centreville, Maryland. This is not Centreville, Illinois. This is not Bibb County, Georgia — that consolidated government is Macon-Bibb, a different state. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here. The county sits in the Birmingham metro on paper. Birmingham is Jefferson. It is not this hall.
Places include Centreville, Brent, West Blocton, Woodstock, and Vance (the last straddles Tuscaloosa). 2020 census: 22,293. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Cahaba-road patrol and the Davidson Drive jail — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Bibb County.
Five districts. The chair rotates. Not a County Executive.
Bibb is a five-member County Commission, one commissioner per district (Ala. Code § 45-4-73). The chair rotates among the five about every nine and a half months. The Commission meets the second and fourth Monday at 157 SW Davidson Drive, Centreville, AL 35042. They fund roads, the jail campus, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Centreville Town Council is a town body. Brent is a city.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Brent is a city clock.
The Cahaba sits here. The 1902 square is the court, not the live jail.
The Cahaba River runs this county. U.S. 82 and State 5 are the through roads. Tuscaloosa is west. Jefferson is north. Shelby is northeast. Chilton is east. Perry is south. Hale is southwest. The Bibb County Courthouse at 35 Court Square East (built 1902, Centreville Historic District) is the court. The old 1910 jail on the square is a historic shell — last inmates decades ago, not the live house. Staff who paste a Virginia courthouse onto Court Square, or treat the old square jail as today’s booking, or file “Macon-Bibb Sheriff,” are on the wrong county.
How a Centreville public finds the Bibb desk
Commission and Sheriff administration: 157 SW Davidson Drive (Sheriff Suite 200). Live jail: directories and county listings put Bibb County Jail at 183 SW Davidson Drive. Courthouse / Circuit Clerk / absentee: 35 Court Square East. Probate / Board of Registrars: 8 Court Square West. Confirm live addresses on bibbal.com and the Secretary of State city-county lookup. A student who only knows a Birmingham photograph has not found Centreville.
Davidson Drive still jails. Bibb Correctional Facility is ADOC.
Crime in unincorporated Bibb — and in the smaller towns that do not keep a full municipal police — is this Sheriff. Crime in Brent or Centreville where those governments keep officers is often municipal. The Bibb County Jail at 183 SW Davidson Drive is this Sheriff’s house. Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent is Alabama Department of Corrections — a state prison, not this county jail. Do not paste that state house onto Davidson Drive. Civil process and courthouse security at 35 Court Square East are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Cahaba. Remedy for Brent Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Cahaba comes up is this count first.
Care without inventing a coal-camp chapel as this county
A peace order served in West Blocton. A transport from 183 SW Davidson to 35 Court Square East without becoming Brent Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent a coal-camp chapel as this badge.
What Bibb actually watches
Court calendar on Court Square. A wreck on U.S. 82. A rise on the Cahaba. A timber road at night. Coordination with Brent, Centreville, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Tuscaloosa’s Sheriff or Jefferson’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. Small population does not shrink the Constitution.
Bibb snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Centreville, Alabama · Largest city: Brent · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: five Commissioners by district · rotating chair · 157 SW Davidson Drive
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and jail at 183 SW Davidson Drive
- State prison on this map: Bibb Correctional Facility (Brent) · ADOC · not this jailer
- Neighbors: Tuscaloosa · Jefferson · Shelby · Chilton · Perry · Hale
- Not Centreville, Virginia · Not Macon-Bibb, Georgia · Not Brent as the hall
What Centreville is not, as this county
- Not Centreville, Virginia. Not Centreville, Maryland. Not Centreville, Illinois.
- Not Bibb County, Georgia. Not Macon-Bibb. Not Birmingham as this hall.
- Not Brent as the county government. Not the 1910 square jail as today’s booking.
- Not a campaign flyer.