Clark County, Arkansas
Clark County · Arkadelphia, Arkansas · the county seat sits here · Las Vegas is not this hall · Grove Hill is not this hall
Arkadelphia is the hall. Gurdon is not the hall. This is not Clark County, Nevada.
Clark County, Arkansas, was formed 15 December 1818 and named for William Clark of the Missouri Territory / Lewis and Clark. Boundaries shifted until 1877. Association of Arkansas Counties: Arkadelphia is the county seat (permanent since 1842; Greenville was earlier). 2020 census: 21,446. Gurdon, Caddo Valley, and Amity are municipalities. None is the hall. Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University sit in Arkadelphia — campuses, not this government. This is not Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas). This is not Clarke County, Alabama (Grove Hill) — already unique. This is not Clark County, Illinois / Indiana / Kansas / Kentucky / Missouri / Ohio / Washington / Wisconsin. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — pine-road patrol and the Fifth Street detention house this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Clark County.
Eleven JPs. County Judge at 401 Clay. They do not sit in Las Vegas as this county.
Clark is an elected eleven-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 401 Clay Street, Arkadelphia, AR 71923 (phone 870-246-5847). Regular Quorum Court meetings list at 419 Clay Street. They fund roads, the 1899 courthouse, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Arkadelphia City Council is a city body.
The courthouse lists at 401 Clay Street (9th Judicial Circuit–East — this county alone). County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 401 Clay. Combined Sheriff-Collector on this county’s AAC listing. A Nevada rumor is not this county. Grove Hill as the hall is not this county. Gurdon 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 Arkadelphia is a city clock.
Pine hills, I-30, DeGray. Little Rock is the capital.
I-30 is the through road. DeGray Lake sits in the north. Hilly terrain north, pine-covered rolling hills south. Hot Spring is northeast — Malvern is that hall (Hot Springs the city is Garland). Dallas is east. Ouachita is southeast — Camden is that hall. Nevada is south. Pike is west. Montgomery is northwest. Garland is north. Staff who paste a Strip skyline onto Clay Street, or treat a campus quad as this county government, or file “Clarke County, Alabama, as this Sheriff,” are on the wrong county.
How an Arkadelphia public finds the Clark desk
County Judge / Courthouse / Clerk: 401 Clay Street, Arkadelphia, AR 71923. Quorum Court complex: 419 Clay. Sheriff HQ and Jail: 406 South 5th Street. Confirm addresses on clarkcountyarkansas.com and the AAC Clark page. A student who only knows a Las Vegas photograph, or only a Grove Hill photograph, or only a campus quad, has not found Arkadelphia.
Fifth Street still jails. Campus police do not. Arkadelphia PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Clark — Gurdon country, Caddo Valley roads outside the city, Amity, pine roads off I-30 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Arkadelphia is often Arkadelphia Police. Crime on a campus is often campus police. This Sheriff is not those departments as the whole map. Current listings put detention at 406 South 5th. 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 Las Vegas or to Grove Hill. Civil process and courthouse security at 401 Clay are the Sheriff. Rights do not change in the pines. Remedy for city police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when DeGray water or a timber fire sits is this count first.
Care without inventing a Caddo chapel as this county
A peace order served in Gurdon. A transport from the Fifth Street jail to 401 Clay without becoming campus police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Las Vegas as this badge. Do not invent Grove Hill as this hall.
What Clark actually watches
Court calendar under the clock tower. A wreck on I-30. High water toward DeGray. A timber fire toward Gurdon. A night road outside Caddo Valley. Coordination with Arkadelphia PD, Gurdon municipal, campus police, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Hot Spring’s Sheriff or Pike’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Strip photograph does not steal the seat. A campus quad does not steal the seat.
Arkadelphia snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Arkadelphia, Arkansas · Gurdon is not the hall · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: eleven-member Quorum Court · County Judge 401 Clay · court 401 Clay · complex 419 Clay
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 406 South 5th · combined collector on the AAC listing
- Neighbors: Hot Spring · Dallas · Ouachita · Nevada · Pike · Montgomery · Garland
- Not Clark County, Nevada · Not Clarke County, Alabama · Not Gurdon as the hall · Not campus police as this Sheriff
What Arkadelphia is not, as this county
- Not Clark County, Nevada. Not Las Vegas.
- Not Clarke County, Alabama. Not Grove Hill.
- Not Clark County, Illinois / Indiana / Kansas / Kentucky / Missouri / Ohio / Washington / Wisconsin.
- Not Gurdon as the county government. Not Caddo Valley as the hall.
- Not Ouachita Baptist. Not Henderson State.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not a campaign flyer.