Chilton County, Alabama
Chilton County · Clanton · the peach seat sits here · Birmingham is not the hall
Clanton is the hall. A peach water tower is not a Birmingham suburb hall.
Chilton County, Alabama, was erected 30 December 1868 from Autauga, Bibb, Perry, and Shelby. Clanton is the seat. Clanton is also the largest city. Jemison is not the county government. Thorsby is not the county government. Maplesville is not the county government. The peach water tower on I-65 is a town landmark, not a second courthouse. This is not a Birmingham suburb as the hall. Birmingham is Jefferson. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It sits south of this map, not here. Autauga is a neighbor — it is not this county.
Places include Clanton, Jemison, Thorsby, Maplesville, Verbena, and Calera (the last straddles Shelby). 2020 census: 45,014. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — peach-corridor patrol and the City Street jail — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Chilton County.
Seven Commissioners. They do not sit in Jefferson County.
Chilton is a seven-member County Commission. The county site lists seven sitting members. They fund roads, the new courthouse, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Clanton City Council is a city body. Jemison and Thorsby are cities.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Clanton is a city clock.
I-65 is a corridor between two traffic capitals. It is not a second sheriff.
I-65 cuts this map north–south between Birmingham traffic and Montgomery traffic. U.S. 31 and U.S. 82 are the older through roads. The Coosa is east. Shelby is north. Coosa and Elmore sit east. Autauga and Dallas sit south. Perry and Bibb sit west. Staff who paste a Birmingham skyline onto Clanton, or treat this hall as a Jefferson suburb, or file “Chilton as Autauga,” are on the wrong county.
How a Clanton public finds the Chilton desk
The new Chilton County Courthouse lists at 53 Robert Threlkeld Parkway, Clanton, AL 35045 — dedicated 29 June 2026. Revenue offices moved there 2 June 2026. The Secretary of State still lists the Sheriff at 500 2nd Avenue North, Clanton, AL 35045 (the older courthouse campus). Jail: 301 City Street, Clanton, AL 35045. Confirm live addresses on chiltoncounty.org and chiltoncountyso.org. A student who only knows a Birmingham photograph has not found Clanton.
City Street still jails. Clanton PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Chilton — orchard roads, Verbena, the I-65 remainder outside city limits — is this Sheriff. Crime in Clanton, Jemison, Thorsby, and Maplesville is often municipal police. The Chilton County Jail at 301 City Street is this Sheriff’s house (about 232 beds on directory listings; confirm live). A Jail Administrator appears on those listings as staff of this office, not a separate county Department of Corrections. ALEA is the state. Civil process and court security at the live courthouse campus are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the peach tower. Remedy for Clanton Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when I-65 ices is this count first.
Care without inventing a peach-orchard chapel as this county
A peace order served in Maplesville. A transport from 301 City Street to the live courthouse without becoming Jemison Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent an orchard as this badge.
What Chilton actually watches
Court calendar at the live courthouse. A wreck on I-65. Ice at Verbena. A rise on the Coosa. Coordination with Clanton, Jemison, Thorsby, Maplesville, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Autauga’s Sheriff or Shelby’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A new courthouse is a building. It is not a second Sheriff.
Chilton snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Clanton · Largest city: Clanton · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: seven Commissioners · new courthouse 53 Robert Threlkeld Parkway
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · SOS listing 500 2nd Avenue North · jail 301 City Street
- Neighbors: Shelby · Coosa · Elmore · Autauga · Dallas · Perry · Bibb
- Not a Birmingham suburb hall · Not Jemison as the hall · Not Autauga
What Clanton is not, as this county
- Not Birmingham as this hall. Not Jefferson County. Not a suburb courthouse.
- Not Jemison, Thorsby, or Maplesville as the county government.
- Not Autauga. Not Montgomery as this seat. Not the capital.
- Not a campaign flyer.