Calhoun County, Arkansas
Calhoun County · Hampton, Arkansas · the least-populous seat sits here · Anniston is not this hall
Hampton is the hall. Thornton is not the hall. This is not Calhoun County, Alabama.
Calhoun County, Arkansas, was created 6 December 1850 from parts of Dallas, Ouachita, and Bradley. Association of Arkansas Counties: Hampton is the county seat. 2020 census: 4,739 — least populous in Arkansas. Hampton is the only town over a thousand. Thornton, Harrell, and Tinsman are the other incorporated towns. Timber, sand, and gravel are the land. This is not Calhoun County, Alabama (Anniston) — already unique. This is not Calhoun County, Georgia / Illinois / Iowa / Michigan / Mississippi / South Carolina / Texas / West Virginia / Florida. Camden is Ouachita. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — timber-road patrol and the Ninth Street detention house this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Calhoun County.
Nine JPs. County Judge at 309 West Main. They do not sit in Anniston as this county.
Calhoun is an elected nine-member Quorum Court. Justices of the peace sit two years. The County Judge is the chief executive (Amendment 55), presides, has no vote, and holds the veto. County Judge offices sit at 309 W. Main / P.O. Box 566, Hampton, AR 71744 (phone 870-798-4818). They fund roads, the 1909 courthouse, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Hampton Town Council is a town body.
The courthouse lists at 309 W. Main Street (13th Judicial Circuit). County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: P.O. Box 1175. An Alabama rumor is not this county. Thornton as the hall is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Art. 7 § 46, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 1 January 2027. Combined Sheriff-Collector on this county’s AAC listing. The Mayor of Hampton is a town clock.
Timber, sand, gravel, Felsenthal edge. Little Rock is the capital.
U.S. 167 is the through road. Moro Creek Bottoms (shared with Cleveland) is the hardwood remnant. Felsenthal water sits on the southern edge. Dallas is north — Fordyce is that hall. Bradley is east — Warren is that hall. Union is south. Ouachita is west — Camden is that hall. Staff who paste an Anniston skyline onto West Main, or treat Thornton as this hall, or file “Alabama Calhoun as this Sheriff,” are on the wrong county.
How a Hampton public finds the Calhoun desk
County Judge / Courthouse: 309 W. Main Street, Hampton, AR 71744. Sheriff HQ and Jail: 449 9th Street / P.O. Box 1174. County Clerk: P.O. Box 1175. Confirm addresses on the AAC Calhoun page. A student who only knows an Anniston photograph, or Thornton as the whole map, has not found Hampton.
Ninth Street still jails. Confirm the live door. Hampton municipal does not.
Crime in unincorporated Calhoun — Thornton country, Harrell, Tinsman, timber roads off U.S. 167 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Hampton is often municipal first. This Sheriff is not a town police department as the whole map. Current listings put detention at 449 9th Street. Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes a 1969 jail wing on the courthouse — confirm which door a family uses today. 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 Anniston or to Camden. Civil process and courthouse security at 309 West Main are the Sheriff. Rights do not change in the timber. Remedy for a town police paper is the town. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Moro water or a timber fire sits is this count first.
Care without inventing a Hogskin chapel as this county
A peace order served in Harrell. A transport from the Ninth Street jail to 309 West Main without becoming a town police rumor. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Anniston as this badge. “Hogskin County” is a Depression nickname. It is not a second Sheriff.
What Calhoun actually watches
Court calendar under the clock tower. A wreck on U.S. 167. High water on Moro Creek. A timber fire toward Tinsman. A night road outside Harrell. Coordination with Hampton municipal and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Bradley’s Sheriff or Ouachita’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. An Anniston photograph does not steal the seat.
Hampton snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Hampton, Arkansas · Thornton is not the hall · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: nine-member Quorum Court · County Judge 309 W. Main · court 309 W. Main
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 449 9th Street · combined collector on the AAC listing
- Neighbors: Dallas · Bradley · Union · Ouachita
- Not Calhoun County, Alabama · Not Anniston as this oval · Not Thornton as the hall · Not Camden as this county
What Hampton is not, as this county
- Not Calhoun County, Alabama. Not Anniston.
- Not Calhoun County, Georgia / Illinois / Iowa / Michigan / Mississippi / South Carolina / Texas / West Virginia / Florida.
- Not Thornton as the county government. Not Harrell as the hall.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not a second sheriff because of a Depression nickname.
- Not a campaign flyer.