Jackson County, Arkansas
Jackson County, Arkansas · Newport is the seat · not Scottsboro · not Jackson, Mississippi · Little Rock is the capital
Newport is the hall. Jacksonport was a seat. This is not Jackson County, Alabama. This is not Jackson, Mississippi.
Jackson County, Arkansas, was formed 5 November 1829 from part of Independence, and named for Andrew Jackson, then in his first presidential term. Association of Arkansas Counties: Newport is the county seat. AAC: the seat has moved five times — Litchfield (1831), Elizabeth (1839), Augusta (1852), Jacksonport (1854), Newport (1892). Jacksonport is history and a state park — not this hall now. Diaz, Tuckerman, Swifton, and Grubbs are not the hall.
This is not Jackson County, Alabama. That seat is Scottsboro, already unique. This is not Jackson, Mississippi. This is not Jackson County, Missouri / Illinois / Iowa / Indiana / Michigan / Ohio / Tennessee / Texas / Wisconsin / Florida / Georgia / North Carolina / Oregon / Colorado / Minnesota / South Dakota / Oklahoma / Kansas / West Virginia / Kentucky. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
The courthouse lists at 208 South Main Street, Newport, AR 72112 — the 1892 red-brick hall with a clock tower, among the older courthouses still working in the State. County Clerk and Circuit Clerk list separately on that square. The Sheriff lists at 3300 Theater Drive, Newport, AR 72112. That is the shop. Newport remains the hall.
Places include Newport, Diaz, Tuckerman, Swifton, Grubbs, Jacksonport, and the Delta remainder. 2020 census: 16,755 (Association of Arkansas Counties). This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — White-River Delta remainder patrol and the house at 3300 Theater Drive this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Jackson County.
Nine JPs at 208 Main. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Jackson 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 208 Main Street. They fund roads, the Main Street hall, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Newport City Council is a city body. Diaz is a city body. Tuckerman is a city body. None of those is this Quorum Court.
County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate at 208 Main. This county elects a separate Collector at 208 South Main. Do not invent a combined Sheriff-Collector here. Confirm live at arcounties.org/counties/jackson. 3rd 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.
White River, Black River, Delta flats. Little Rock is the capital.
Rich Delta farmland north, central, and south; rolling hills in the extreme west. The White River crosses the southwest. The Black River forms the western line. U.S. 67 is a through road. Independence is west — Batesville is that hall. White is southwest. Woodruff is south. Poinsett is east. Craighead is northeast — Jonesboro is that hall. Lawrence is north. Staff who paste Scottsboro onto Main Street, or treat Jackson, Mississippi, as this government, or file Little Rock as this seat, are on the wrong county.
How a Newport public finds 208 Main and 3300 Theater Drive
County Judge / Quorum Court / Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 208 Main Street, Newport, AR 72112. Sheriff headquarters and detention: 3300 Theater Drive, Newport, AR 72112 — office (870) 523-5842. Confirm live doors at jacksonsheriff.org and arcounties.org/counties/jackson before you drive. Older aggregator listings still print 615 Second Street — confirm the live booking door; ASA and the Sheriff’s own site list Theater Drive. A student who only knows a Scottsboro photograph, or only a Jackson, Mississippi, postcard, has not found Newport, Arkansas.
Theater Drive still jails. Grimes and McPherson are ADC.
Crime in unincorporated Jackson — Diaz remainder, Tuckerman remainder, Swifton remainder, Jacksonport remainder, U.S. 67 frontage — is this Sheriff. Crime in Newport is often Newport Police. This Sheriff is not that badge. The Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association jail card lists a 110-bed house, male and female, this badge still holds. That house is this badge’s shop (A.C.A. § 12-41-502). Grimes Unit (300 Corrections Drive) and McPherson Unit (302 Corrections Drive) sit northeast of Newport. They are ADC. McPherson is the State’s female parent unit. It is not this jailer. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Scottsboro, to Jackson, Mississippi, or to an ADC door as this oval.
Care without inventing a river-port chapel as this county
A peace order served in unincorporated Tuckerman. A court-ordered transport from 3300 Theater Drive to 208 Main without becoming Newport PD. Do not invent a church. Do not invent a railroad museum as this oval.
What Jackson actually watches
Court calendar on Main. A wreck on U.S. 67. Fog on the Delta. High water toward the White and the Black. Ice toward Diaz. Coordination with Newport Police and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Independence’s Sheriff or Craighead’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. The river is geography. It is not Scottsboro as this hall.
Newport snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Newport · Jacksonport is not the hall now · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock
- Government: nine-member Quorum Court · County Judge 208 Main · separate Clerk and Circuit Clerk · court 208 South Main (1892)
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ/jail 3300 Theater Drive · ASA 110-bed house — confirm live door · Grimes / McPherson are ADC
- Neighbors: Independence · White · Woodruff · Poinsett · Craighead · Lawrence
- Not Jackson County, Alabama / Scottsboro · Not Jackson, Mississippi · Not Little Rock as this seat
What Newport is not, as this county
- Not Jackson County, Alabama. Not Scottsboro.
- Not Jackson, Mississippi. Not the State of Mississippi.
- Not Jacksonport as the county government now. Not Diaz as the hall. Not Tuckerman as the hall.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not Grimes Unit. Not McPherson Unit. Not ADC as this Sheriff.
- Not a campaign flyer.