Boone County, Arkansas
Boone County · Harrison, Arkansas · the Ozark-line seat sits here · Columbia, Missouri is not this hall
Harrison is the hall. Bellefonte lost the seat vote. This is not Boone County, Missouri.
Boone County, Arkansas, was created 9 April 1869 from the east of Carroll, with a Marion strip added later. Encyclopedia of Arkansas and the Association of Arkansas Counties put the seat at Harrison. Bellefonte contended for the seat and lost. Harrison is the seat. 2020 census: 37,373. Harrison city was 13,069. Alpena, Lead Hill, Bergman, Everton, and Valley Springs are towns. This is not Boone County, Missouri (Columbia). This is not Boone County, Kentucky / Indiana / Iowa / Illinois / West Virginia / Nebraska. This is not Boone, North Carolina. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
Places include Harrison, Bellefonte, Alpena, Lead Hill, Bergman, Everton, and Valley Springs. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Ozark-road patrol and the Law Drive detention house this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Boone County.
Eleven JPs at the OEM building. They do not sit in Branson as this county.
Boone is an elected eleven-member Quorum Court. Justices of the peace sit two years. There is no County Executive of the Maryland kind. The County Judge is the chief executive (Amendment 55), presides, has no vote, and holds the veto. County Judge offices sit at 100 North Main, Suite 300, Harrison, AR 72601. Quorum Court regular meeting: OEM Building, second Tuesday, 6:00 p.m. They fund roads, the courthouse campus, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Harrison City Council is a city body. Bellefonte Town Council is a town body. Branson is Missouri.
The courthouse lists at 100 North Main Street (14th Judicial Circuit — Baxter, Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy). County Clerk: 414 W. Central, Suite B. District Court — Harrison Department: 220 Arbor Drive. A Missouri rumor is not this county. Bellefonte as the hall is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Art. 7 § 46, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 1 January 2027. The Mayor of Harrison is a city clock.
U.S. 65, Crooked Creek, Taney County is Missouri. Little Rock is the capital.
U.S. 65 is the through road. U.S. 62/412 crosses at Bellefonte. Arkansas 7 is the scenic ridge. Crooked Creek drains toward Bull Shoals. Table Rock water sits on the northwest edge. Carroll is west. Newton is south. Marion is east. Searcy is southeast. Taney County, Missouri is north. Staff who paste a Columbia, Missouri skyline onto North Main, or treat Bellefonte as this hall, or file “Branson as this Sheriff,” are on the wrong county.
How a Harrison public finds the Boone desk
County Judge: 100 North Main, Suite 300, Harrison, AR 72601. Courthouse / Circuit: 100 North Main. County Clerk: 414 W. Central, Suite B. Sheriff HQ and Jail: 5800 Law Drive, Harrison, AR 72601. District Court: 220 Arbor Drive. Confirm addresses on boonecountyar.com and boonesheriff.com. A student who only knows a Missouri photograph, or Bellefonte as the whole map, has not found Harrison.
Law Drive still jails. Harrison PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Boone — Lead Hill country, Alpena, Bergman, Ozark roads off U.S. 65 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Harrison is often Harrison Police. Crime in Bellefonte is often municipal. This Sheriff is not Harrison PD. The live Sheriff site lists HQ and detention at 5800 Law Drive. No separate county Department of Corrections turned up on the official doors — do not invent a jailer split. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Harrison City Hall or to Columbia, Missouri. Civil process and courthouse security at 100 North Main are the Sheriff. Rights do not change in the Ozarks. Remedy for Harrison Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Crooked Creek water sits is this count first.
Care without inventing a square chapel as this county
A peace order served in Alpena. A transport from the Law Drive jail to 100 North Main without becoming Harrison PD. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Branson as this badge.
What Boone actually watches
Court calendar on North Main. A wreck on U.S. 65. High water on Crooked Creek. Fog on Scenic 7. A night road outside Everton. Coordination with Harrison PD, Bellefonte municipal, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Carroll’s Sheriff or Marion’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Missouri photograph does not steal the seat.
Harrison snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Harrison, Arkansas · Bellefonte is not the hall · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: eleven-member Quorum Court · County Judge 100 North Main, Suite 300 · court 100 North Main
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 5800 Law Drive
- Neighbors: Carroll · Newton · Marion · Searcy · Taney County, Missouri
- Not Boone County, Missouri · Not Boone, North Carolina · Not Bellefonte as the hall · Not Branson as this county
What Harrison is not, as this county
- Not Boone County, Missouri. Not Boone, North Carolina.
- Not Boone County, Kentucky / Indiana / Iowa / Illinois / West Virginia / Nebraska.
- Not Bellefonte as the county government. Not Lead Hill as the hall.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not Harrison PD as this Sheriff.
- Not a campaign flyer.