Dallas County, Arkansas
Dallas County, Arkansas · Fordyce is the seat · not Dallas, Texas · not Selma · Little Rock is the capital
Fordyce is the seat. This is not Dallas, Texas. This is not Selma.
Dallas County, Arkansas, was formed 1 January 1845 from Bradley and Clark, and named for George M. Dallas, then Vice President. Association of Arkansas Counties: rolling hills and pine forests; timber still drives the shop. Fordyce is the county seat. Fordyce is also the large city on this map. AAC: Fordyce is Arkansas’s only single county seat moved from a central location when the railroads bypassed the original site of Princeton. Princeton is not the hall now. Sparkman and Carthage are not the hall.
This is not Dallas County, Texas. This is not the City of Dallas, Texas. This is not Dallas County, Alabama — that seat is Selma, already unique. This is not Dallas, Georgia. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
The courthouse lists at 206 West Third Street, Fordyce, AR 71742 (County Judge, combined County Clerk / Circuit Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor). The Sheriff lists at 106 South Charlotte Street, Fordyce, AR 71742. That is the shop. Fordyce remains the hall.
Places include Fordyce, Sparkman, Carthage, and the pine remainder. 2020 census: 6,842 (Association of Arkansas Counties). This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — timber-county remainder patrol and the male house at 106 South Charlotte this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Dallas County.
Nine Justices at 206 West Third. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Dallas is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court of Justices of the Peace. Amendment 55 made the Judge the executive and the Quorum Court the legislature. County Judge lists at 206 West Third Street. They fund roads, the Third Street hall, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Fordyce City Council is a city body. Sparkman is a town body. None of those is this Quorum Court.
County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are combined at 206 West Third. This county elects a separate Collector (mailing P.O. Box 1024, Fordyce). Do not invent a combined Sheriff-Collector here. Confirm live at arcounties.org/counties/dallas. 13th Judicial Circuit.
The Sheriff is four years, Arkansas Constitution Article 7, § 46 as amended by Amendment 95, on the gubernatorial table. Last regular Tuesday, 8 November 2022. Next regular Tuesday, 3 November 2026. Preferential primary Tuesday, 3 March 2026 (already sat). Primary runoff Tuesday, 31 March 2026 (already sat where needed). Take office 1 January 2027 (A.C.A. § 21-1-102). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Little Rock. Justices of the Peace are two years — a different desk.
Pine country, Ouachita River west. Little Rock is the capital and it is not here.
Southern yellow pine. Ouachita River forms the western line. U.S. 79 is a through road. Tri-County Lake sits where Dallas, Calhoun, and Cleveland meet — water, not this oval. Grant is north — Sheridan is that hall. Cleveland is east — Rison is that hall. Calhoun is southeast — Hampton is that hall. Ouachita is south. Clark is west — Arkadelphia is that hall. Hot Spring is northwest — Malvern is that hall. Staff who paste a Dallas, Texas, skyline onto Third Street, or treat Fordyce as Selma, or file Little Rock as this seat, are on the wrong county.
How a public finds 206 West Third and 106 South Charlotte
County Judge / Quorum Court / combined Clerk: 206 West Third Street, Fordyce, AR 71742. Sheriff headquarters and county jail: 106 South Charlotte Street, Fordyce, AR 71742 — office (870) 352-2002. Confirm live doors at dallascountyarsheriff.com and arcounties.org/counties/dallas before you drive. A student who only knows a Dallas, Texas, photograph, or treats Selma as this hall, has not found Fordyce.
Charlotte Street still jails men. ADC’s Fordyce office is not this jailer. Females are not housed in this county.
Crime in unincorporated Dallas — Sparkman country, Carthage remainder, Princeton remainder, pine roads off U.S. 79 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Fordyce is often Fordyce Police. This Sheriff is not that badge. The Sheriff’s own jail page: house completed October 1999; posted male holding; this county does not house females in county. Capacity listings run 125–132. That house is this badge’s shop (A.C.A. § 12-41-502). It is not a separate county Department of Corrections that retired this jailer. ADC lists a Fordyce community-correction office in this town. That is ADC. It is not this jailer. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Dallas, Texas, to Selma, or to an ADC door as this oval. Female housing is not this house — confirm the live transfer door before you drive.
Civil process and court security at 206 West Third are the Sheriff. Rights do not change in the pines. Remedy for Fordyce Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when a timber road floods is this count first.
What this timber county actually watches
Court calendar on West Third. A wreck on U.S. 79. Fog in the pines. High water toward the Ouachita. Ice toward Sparkman. Coordination with Fordyce Police and Arkansas State Police without becoming those departments. Coordination with Cleveland’s Sheriff or Calhoun’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Texas or Selma as this hall. A Dallas, Texas, photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. This remains Fordyce.
Fordyce snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Fordyce, Arkansas · Large city: Fordyce · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + nine Justices of the Peace · combined Clerk · court 206 West Third Street
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and male jail this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 106 South Charlotte · females not housed in this county
- Neighbors: Grant · Cleveland · Calhoun · Ouachita · Clark · Hot Spring
- Not Dallas, Texas · Not Dallas County, Alabama / Selma · Not Fordyce PD as this oval
What Dallas County, Arkansas, is not — not Texas, not Alabama
- Not Dallas, Texas. Not the City of Dallas. Not Dallas County, Texas.
- Not Dallas County, Alabama. Not Selma. That unique SuperHeavy already exists.
- Not Dallas, Georgia.
- Not Fordyce Police as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not ADC as this jailer. Not a female house in this county — confirm the live transfer.
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Not Pulaski.
- Not Princeton as the hall now.
- Not a campaign flyer.