Cullman County, Alabama
Cullman County · Cullman the city · the plateau seat sits here · Jefferson County is a different count
Cullman the city is the hall. Hanceville is not the hall. Arab is mostly Marshall.
Cullman County, Alabama, was erected 1877 and named for Colonel John G. Cullmann. Cullman the city is the seat. Cullman the city is also the large city. Hanceville is a city — Wallace State sits there — it is not the hall. Good Hope is a city. Arab sits almost entirely in Marshall; only a sliver is this county. Arab is not this hall. This is not Jefferson County. This is not Birmingham as the county government. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here. Huntsville is Madison. It is not this hall.
Places include Cullman, Hanceville, Good Hope, Holly Pond, Fairview, Garden City, Baileyton, Colony, Dodge City, Berlin, and South Vinemont. 2020 census: 87,866. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — I-65 plateau patrol and the Beech Avenue Detention Center — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Cullman County.
Chairman plus four districts at Second Avenue. They do not sit in Hanceville City Hall.
Cullman is a five-member County Commission: a chairman at large plus four district commissioners (law from 2020, in force from the 2022 cycle). There is no County Executive. Commission offices sit at 500 2nd Avenue SW, Room 105, Cullman. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Cullman City Council is a city body. Hanceville is a city.
The courthouse is at 500 2nd Avenue SW. The Circuit Clerk lists Suite 303. The Absentee Election Manager lists Room 303. A city hall in Hanceville is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Cullman is a city clock.
I-65 between Birmingham and Huntsville. Jefferson County is a different count.
Interstate 65 runs the county north-south. U.S. 278 and U.S. 31 cross in Cullman the city. The land is Cumberland Plateau. Morgan is north. Marshall is northeast. Blount is east. Walker is southwest. Winston is west. Lawrence is northwest. Staff who paste a Birmingham skyline onto Second Avenue, or treat this as Jefferson County, or file “Hanceville as the county hall,” are on the wrong county.
How a Cullman public finds the Cullman desk
Courthouse / Commission: 500 2nd Avenue SW, Cullman. Circuit Clerk / Absentee: 500 Second Avenue SW, Room 303. Board of Registrars: Suite 112. Sheriff headquarters: 1910 Beech Avenue SE. Detention Center: 1900 Beech Avenue SE. Confirm live addresses on co.cullman.al.us and cullmansheriff.org. A student who only knows a Birmingham photograph has not found Cullman.
Beech Avenue still jails. Cullman PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Cullman — Holly Pond country, Crane Hill, the plateau between Good Hope and Hanceville outside city limits — is this Sheriff. Crime in Cullman the city is often Cullman Police. Crime in Hanceville is often Hanceville Police. This Sheriff is not Cullman PD. The Secretary of State lists the Sheriff at 1910 Beech Avenue SE. The office’s own site lists the Detention Center at 1900 Beech Avenue SE as an integral part of the Sheriff’s Office. A Warden title here is a Sheriff’s captain, not a separate county Department of Corrections. Do not paste Jefferson County jail onto Beech. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Cullman Police. Civil process and courthouse security at 500 2nd Avenue SW are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at I-65. Remedy for Cullman 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 German-colony chapel as this county
A peace order served in Holly Pond. A transport from 1900 Beech to 500 2nd Avenue SW without becoming Cullman Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent the German colony as this badge.
What Cullman actually watches
Court calendar on Second Avenue. A wreck on I-65. Ice on U.S. 278. Fog toward Hanceville. A night road outside Holly Pond. Coordination with Cullman PD, Hanceville PD, Good Hope PD, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Blount’s Sheriff or Morgan’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Birmingham photograph does not steal the seat.
Cullman snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Cullman the city · Large city (also the hall): Cullman · City (not the hall): Hanceville · Arab: mostly Marshall · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: chairman at large plus four districts · courthouse 500 2nd Avenue SW
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and Detention Center at 1900 Beech Avenue SE
- Court / Absentee: 500 Second Avenue SW, Room 303 · HQ: 1910 Beech Avenue SE
- Neighbors: Morgan · Marshall · Blount · Walker · Winston · Lawrence
- Not Jefferson County · Not Hanceville as the hall · Not Birmingham as this government
What Cullman the city is not, as this county
- Not Jefferson County. Not Hanceville as the county government. Not Arab as this hall.
- Not Birmingham. Not Huntsville as this hall. Not the capital.
- Not Cullman Police as this Sheriff. Not a German-colony postcard as the hall.
- Not a campaign flyer.