Butler County, Alabama
Butler County · Greenville, Alabama · I-65 south of Montgomery sits here · Ohio is a different state
Greenville, Alabama, is the hall. Not Ohio. Not Kansas. Not Kentucky.
Butler County, Alabama, was erected 13 December 1819 and named for Captain William Butler. Greenville, Alabama, is the seat — from 1822. Fort Dale was the first seat (1819–1822). Fort Dale is not the hall now. Greenville is also the largest city. Georgiana is a town — not the hall. McKenzie is a town — not the hall. This is not Butler County, Ohio (Hamilton). This is not Butler County, Kansas. This is not Butler County, Missouri. This is not Butler County, Kentucky. This is not Greenville, South Carolina. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It sits north on I-65. It does not sit here.
Places include Greenville, Georgiana, McKenzie, and Forest Home. 2020 census: 19,051. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — south-Alabama patrol and the Walnut Street jail — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Butler County.
Five Commissioners. The chair rotates. Patsaliga is not a second seat.
Butler is a five-member County Commission. The chair rotates. There is no County Executive. Commission listings have used 202 Patsaliga Street as the commission street address. Patsaliga is not a second county seat. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Greenville City Council is a city body.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Greenville is a city clock.
I-65 is a corridor south of Montgomery. It is not a second sheriff.
I-65 runs this county north–south — the first major stop south of the capital. U.S. 31 and State 10 are the older roads. Lowndes is north. Crenshaw is east. Covington is southeast. Conecuh is southwest. Monroe is west. Wilcox is northwest. The Butler County Courthouse at 700 Court Square (1903 remodel of an 1871 house; clock tower, copper dome after Hurricane Opal) is the court of the 2nd Judicial Circuit — shared with Crenshaw and Lowndes. A shared circuit is a docket fact, not a second oval. Staff who paste an Ohio courthouse onto Court Square, or treat Fort Dale as today’s booking, or file “Butler County, Kentucky,” are on the wrong county.
How a Greenville public finds the Butler desk
Courthouse / Circuit Clerk / absentee: 700 Court Square (Clerk mailing P.O. Box 236). Board of Registrars: 611 East Commerce Street. Sheriff headquarters (SOS): 700 Court Square. County jail: directories put Butler County Correctional Facility / Jail at 800 Walnut Street (jail line listed by the 2nd Circuit). Confirm live addresses on butlercogov.com and butler.alacourt.gov. A student who only knows a Montgomery photograph has not found Greenville.
Walnut Street still jails. Fort Dale is the old seat, not today’s booking.
Crime in unincorporated Butler — Georgiana’s outskirts, McKenzie’s countryside, Forest Home, the I-65 interchanges outside city limits — is this Sheriff. Crime in Greenville where the city keeps officers is often municipal. The county jail at 800 Walnut Street is this Sheriff’s house. Circuit listings put Butler County Jail with this Sheriff, not with ADOC. Do not invent a state prison as this jailer. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Fort Dale or to Greenville City Hall. Civil process and courthouse security at 700 Court Square are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at I-65. Remedy for Greenville Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when I-65 ices south of Montgomery is this count first.
Care without inventing a square-steeple chapel as this county
A peace order served in Georgiana. A transport from 800 Walnut to 700 Court Square without becoming Greenville Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Commerce Street as this badge.
What Butler actually watches
Court calendar on Court Square. A wreck on I-65. A south-Alabama storm. A night road toward McKenzie. Coordination with Greenville Police and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Lowndes or Crenshaw (same 2nd Circuit) is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A corridor county does not shrink the Constitution.
Butler snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Greenville, Alabama · Largest city: Greenville · First seat (1819–1822): Fort Dale · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: five Commissioners · rotating chair · courthouse 700 Court Square
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and jail at 800 Walnut Street
- Neighbors: Lowndes · Crenshaw · Covington · Conecuh · Monroe · Wilcox
- Not Butler County, Ohio / Kansas / Missouri / Kentucky · Not Greenville, South Carolina
What Greenville is not, as this county
- Not Butler County, Ohio. Not Hamilton, Ohio. Not Butler County, Kansas, Missouri, or Kentucky.
- Not Greenville, South Carolina. Not Montgomery as this hall.
- Not Fort Dale as today’s county government. Not Georgiana as the hall.
- Not a campaign flyer.