Chicot County, Arkansas
Chicot County · Lake Village, Arkansas · the southeastern seat sits here · Mississippi is not this hall · Dermott is not this hall
Lake Village is the hall. Dermott is not the hall. The river swallowed two earlier seats.
Chicot County, Arkansas, was created October 1823 from part of Arkansas County. The name is French for the cypress stump. Association of Arkansas Counties: Lake Village is the county seat. 2020 census: 10,208. Incorporated cities: Lake Village, Dermott, Eudora. Dermott is not the hall. Eudora is not the hall. Earlier seats Villemont and Columbia were overtaken by the Mississippi River; Masona was temporary. Lake Village is the fourth and last. This is not the State of Mississippi. This is not Chicot Parish, Louisiana. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Delta-road patrol and whatever live detention door this badge posts — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Chicot County.
Nine JPs. County Judge at 417 Main. They do not sit in Mississippi as this county.
Chicot 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 417 Main Street, Lake Village, AR 71653. They fund roads, the 1956 courthouse, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Lake Village City Council is a city body.
The courthouse lists at 108 Main Street — Herbert Voelker’s 1956 Art Deco / Government Moderne, on the banks of Lake Chicot, NRHP. County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 108 Main. Separate Collector at 417 Main. A Mississippi rumor is not this county. Dermott 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 Lake Village is a city clock. The Mayor of Dermott is a city clock.
Cotton, rice, soybeans, catfish, the oxbow. Little Rock is the capital.
U.S. 65 is the through road. Lake Chicot is about twenty-two miles of oxbow — largest in the nation, largest natural lake in Arkansas. Desha is north — Arkansas City / Dumas are that map. Drew is northwest — Monticello is that hall. Ashley is west — Hamburg is that hall. Louisiana is south. Mississippi is east across the river. Staff who paste a Mississippi skyline onto Main Street, or treat Dermott’s mill as this county government, or file “ADC Dermott as this Sheriff,” are on the wrong county.
How a Lake Village public finds the Chicot desk
County Judge: 417 Main Street. Courthouse / County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 108 Main Street, Lake Village, AR 71653. Sheriff HQ: 513 Main Street. Confirm addresses on the AAC Chicot page. A student who only knows a Mississippi photograph, or only a state-prison gate in Dermott, has not found Lake Village.
ASA lists no county jail. Delta Regional is ADC. Lake Village PD does not jail the county.
Crime in unincorporated Chicot — Eudora country, Dermott roads outside the city, oxbow frontage, river levee — is this Sheriff. Crime in Lake Village is often Lake Village Police. Crime in Dermott is often Dermott Police. This Sheriff is not either city PD. The Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association jail card reads No Jail. Confirm the live booking door. Delta Regional Unit, 880 East Gaines, Dermott, is ADC. It is not this jailer. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Gaines Street. Civil process and courthouse security at 108 Main are the Sheriff. Rights do not change on the oxbow. Remedy for Lake Village Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Lake Chicot water sits is this count first.
Care without inventing an oxbow chapel as this county
A peace order served in Eudora. A transport to 108 Main without becoming Dermott PD. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Mississippi as this badge. Do not invent the state prison as this hall.
What Chicot actually watches
Court calendar on Main with the lake in the window. A wreck on U.S. 65. High water on Lake Chicot. A night road toward Eudora. Fog on the parish line. Coordination with Lake Village PD, Dermott PD, Eudora PD, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Ashley’s Sheriff or Desha’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Mississippi photograph does not steal the seat. A state-prison gate does not steal the seat.
Lake Village snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Lake Village, Arkansas · Dermott is not the hall · Eudora is not the hall · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: nine-member Quorum Court · County Judge 417 Main · court 108 Main (1956 Art Deco on Lake Chicot)
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ 513 Main · ASA No Jail — confirm live door · Delta Regional is ADC
- Neighbors: Desha · Drew · Ashley · Louisiana · Mississippi (across the river)
- Not the State of Mississippi · Not Dermott as this hall · Not ADC as this Sheriff
What Lake Village is not, as this county
- Not the State of Mississippi. Not a Mississippi county.
- Not Chicot Parish, Louisiana.
- Not Dermott as the county government. Not Eudora as the hall.
- Not Villemont or Columbia — the river took those seats.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not Delta Regional Unit as this Sheriff.
- Not a campaign flyer.