Independence County, Arkansas
Independence County · Batesville, Arkansas is the seat · Missouri is not this hall · Mississippi is not this hall
Batesville, Arkansas, is the hall. Independence, Missouri, is not. Batesville, Mississippi, is not.
Independence County, Arkansas, was created October 1820 from part of Lawrence County. AAC: its name comes from the Declaration of Independence. Association of Arkansas Counties: Batesville is the county seat. Batesville is also the large city on this map. Southside, Newark, Oil Trough, Sulphur Rock, Cushman, and Pleasant Plains are not the hall. 2020 census: 37,938.
This is not Independence, Missouri. This is not Independence County, Missouri. This is not Batesville, Mississippi. This is not Batesville, Indiana / Texas / Ohio. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here. Izard County’s hall is Melbourne — a different county. Lyon College is a campus in this town. It is not this government.
The courthouse lists at 192 East Main Street, Batesville, AR 72501. The Sheriff lists at 1750 Myers Street (AAC spelling Meyers — confirm live). The county jail lists at 569 West Main Street. Collector lists at 110 Broad Street.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — White River remainder patrol and a 118-bed house this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Independence County.
Eleven JPs at 192 East Main. Separate collector on Broad. They do not sit in Missouri as this county.
Independence 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 192 East Main Street. They fund roads, the East Main hall, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Batesville City Council is a city body.
County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate at 192 East Main. This county elects a separate Collector at 110 Broad Street. Do not invent a combined Sheriff-Collector here. Confirm live at arcounties.org/counties/independence. 16th Judicial Circuit (with Cleburne, Fulton, Izard, and Stone).
The Sheriff is four years, Art. 7 § 46, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 1 January 2027. The Mayor of Batesville is a city clock.
White River, Ozark foothills, delta southeast. Little Rock is the capital.
AAC: rolling hills and Ozark foothills, except river-delta farmland in the southeast. The White River comes into Batesville with riffles and shoals; below Batesville it flattens. U.S. 167 and U.S. 67 are through roads. Sharp is north. Lawrence is northeast — Walnut Ridge is that hall. Jackson is east — Newport is that hall. White is south. Cleburne is southwest. Stone is west. Izard is northwest — Melbourne is that hall. Staff who paste an Independence, Missouri, square onto East Main, or treat Batesville, Mississippi, as this county government, or file Melbourne as this seat, are on the wrong county.
How a Batesville public finds East Main, Myers, and West Main
County Judge / courthouse / clerks: 192 East Main Street, Batesville, AR 72501. Sheriff HQ: 1750 Myers Street (AAC: Meyers). Jail: 569 West Main Street. Collector: 110 Broad Street. Confirm addresses on the AAC Independence page and independencecounty.com before you travel. A student who only knows a Missouri photograph, or only a Mississippi photograph, has not found Batesville, Arkansas.
This Sheriff still holds a 118-bed house. WRCC is ADC. Batesville PD does not jail the county.
Crime in unincorporated Independence — Southside country, Oil Trough, Newark remainder, Sulphur Rock, Cushman, Pleasant Plains, U.S. 167 frontage — is this Sheriff. Crime in Batesville is often Batesville Police. This Sheriff is not that city PD. The Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association jail card lists a 118-bed male-and-female house this badge still holds at 569 West Main. Confirm the live booking door. White River Correctional Center at 105 County Yard Road is ADC. It is not this jailer. Civil process and courthouse security at 192 East Main are the Sheriff. Rights do not change on the White River. Remedy for Batesville Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the river leaves the banks is this count first.
What this river county actually watches
Court calendar on East Main. A wreck on U.S. 167. Fog toward Southside. High water on the White River. Ice toward Newark. Coordination with Batesville Police and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Izard’s Sheriff or Jackson’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Missouri photograph does not steal the seat. A campus does not steal the seat.
Batesville, Arkansas snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Batesville, Arkansas · Southside is not the hall · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: eleven-member Quorum Court · County Judge 192 East Main · separate Collector 110 Broad
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ 1750 Myers · jail 569 West Main · ASA 118-bed house · WRCC is ADC
- Neighbors: Sharp · Lawrence · Jackson · White · Cleburne · Stone · Izard
- Not Independence, Missouri · Not Batesville, Mississippi · Not Melbourne as this hall
What Independence County, Arkansas, is not — not Missouri, not Mississippi
- Not Independence, Missouri. Not Independence County, Missouri.
- Not Batesville, Mississippi. Not Batesville, Indiana / Texas / Ohio.
- Not Batesville Police as this Sheriff. Not campus police as this oval.
- Not ADC as this jailer. Not White River Correctional Center as this jailer.
- Not Izard County. Not Melbourne as this hall.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not a campaign flyer.