Hale County, Alabama
Hale County · Greensboro · the Black Belt seat sits here · Moundville is not this hall
Greensboro is the hall. Moundville is the large town. This is not Hale County, Texas.
Hale County, Alabama, was erected 30 January 1867 from parts of Greene, Marengo, Perry, and Tuscaloosa, and named for Stephen Fowler Hale. Greensboro is the seat. Greensboro is a city — it is the hall. Moundville is the largest city and sits partly in Tuscaloosa. Moundville is not this hall. The mounds at Moundville Archaeological Park are not this county government. Akron and Newbern are towns. This is not Hale County, Texas. This is not Hale County, Georgia. Greene is Eutaw — it is a different count. Greenville is Butler. Greensboro, North Carolina, is a different state. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here.
Places include Greensboro, Moundville (part), Akron, Newbern, Sawyerville, and Havana. 2020 census: 14,785. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Black Belt patrol and the Correction Drive jail — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Hale County.
Four districts. Probate chairs on Main Street. They do not sit in Moundville as this county.
Hale is a four-member County Commission with the Judge of Probate as chairman, elected countywide. There is no County Executive. Commission offices sit at 1001 Main Street, Suite 396, Greensboro. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Greensboro City Council is a city body. Moundville is a city that also sits in Tuscaloosa.
The courthouse is at 1001 Main Street, Greensboro (4th Judicial Circuit with Bibb, Dallas, Perry, and Wilcox). The Circuit Clerk and Absentee Election Manager list that Main Street door. A city hall in Moundville is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Greensboro is a city clock.
The Black Warrior and U.S. 82. Montgomery is still the capital.
The Black Warrior River cuts the north. U.S. 82 is the through road. State 69 runs Greensboro to Moundville. Tuscaloosa is north. Bibb is northeast. Perry is southeast. Marengo is south. Greene is west — Eutaw is that hall, not this one. Staff who paste a Texas postcard onto Main Street, or treat the Moundville park as this courthouse, or file “Eutaw as the Hale hall,” are on the wrong county.
How a Greensboro public finds the Hale desk
Courthouse / Circuit Clerk / Absentee: 1001 Main Street, Greensboro. Commission: 1001 Main Street, Suite 396. Sheriff headquarters (SOS): 1001 Main Street #18, Greensboro. Jail: 70 Correction Drive, Greensboro. Confirm live addresses on halecountyal.gov and halecoso.com. A student who only knows a Moundville photograph has not found Greensboro.
70 Correction Drive still jails. Greensboro PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Hale — Newbern country, Sawyerville, the Black Belt roads off U.S. 82 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Greensboro is often Greensboro Police. Crime in Moundville is often municipal (and part of that town is Tuscaloosa). This Sheriff is not Greensboro PD. Jail listings use 70 Correction Drive (a 1999 house, Sheriff-operated). That is not a separate county Department of Corrections. Do not paste Finches Ferry onto Correction Drive — Finches Ferry is Greene. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Greensboro Police or to Texas. Civil process and courthouse security at 1001 Main Street are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the mound park. Remedy for Greensboro Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Black Belt weather sits is this count first.
Care without inventing a mound-park chapel as this county
A peace order served in Newbern. A transport from 70 Correction Drive to 1001 Main Street without becoming Greensboro Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent the Moundville park as this badge.
What Hale actually watches
Court calendar on Main Street. A wreck on U.S. 82. High water on the Black Warrior. Fog toward Akron. A night road outside Newbern. Coordination with Greensboro PD and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Greene’s Sheriff or Perry’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Texas photograph does not steal the seat. A Moundville postcard does not steal the hall.
Greensboro snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Greensboro · Large city (not the hall): Moundville (partly Tuscaloosa) · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: four Commissioners · Probate as chairman · Commission 1001 Main Street, Suite 396 · courthouse 1001 Main Street
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and jail at 70 Correction Drive
- Court / Absentee: 1001 Main Street · HQ (SOS): 1001 Main Street #18
- Neighbors: Tuscaloosa · Bibb · Perry · Marengo · Greene
- Not Hale County, Texas · Not Moundville as the hall · Not Eutaw as this county · Not Greensboro PD as this Sheriff
What Greensboro is not, as this county
- Not Hale County, Texas. Not Hale County, Georgia. Not Moundville as the hall.
- Not Eutaw. Not Greene County. Not Greenville (Butler).
- Not Greensboro Police as this Sheriff. Not a mound-park postcard as the hall.
- Not a campaign flyer.