Lafayette County, Arkansas
Lafayette County · Lewisville, Arkansas, is the seat · Stamps is the large town, not this hall · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Lewisville is the hall. Stamps is the large town. Little Rock is the capital.
Lafayette County, Arkansas, was erected 15 October 1827 from Hempstead and named for the Marquis de Lafayette. Lewisville is the seat. Stamps is the large town — it is not the hall. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Bradley and Buckner are cities in this county — they are not the hall. This is not Lafayette, Louisiana. Not Fayetteville. Not Lafayette County, Mississippi / Missouri / Florida / Wisconsin. The Red River is the western wall. Louisiana is south. This square is the only Arkansas courthouse square that shares a public cemetery.
Places include Lewisville, Stamps, Bradley, and Buckner. 2020 census: 6,308 — third-least populous county in the State. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Red River timber remainder patrol and the jail at #5 Courthouse Square this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Lafayette County.
Nine Justices. Judge at #1 Courthouse Square. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Lafayette is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at #1 Courthouse Square, Lewisville, AR 71845. They fund roads, the detention house, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Lewisville City Council is a city body. Stamps City Council is a city body. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 1 Courthouse Square — 1940–1942 WPA Art Deco / Moderne, National Register. Confirm at lafayettecounty.arkansas.gov and arcounties.org. Hope is Hempstead. Magnolia is Columbia. Texarkana is Miller. Shreveport is Louisiana.
The Sheriff is four years, Article 7, § 46 / 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). 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. AAC lists a combined Treasurer/Collector at #4 / #6 — not this Sheriff.
Timber, the Red River, the Louisiana line. This is not Lafayette, Louisiana. This is not Fayetteville.
Southwest Arkansas. Rolling hills, largely forested. The Red River is the western wall. U.S. 82 is the spine. Lake Erling sits in a WMA. Hempstead is north — Hope is that hall. Nevada is northeast. Columbia is east — Magnolia is that hall. Webster Parish and Bossier Parish, Louisiana, are south and southwest. Miller is west. Staff who paste a Louisiana postcard onto Courthouse Square, or treat Fayetteville as this oval, or file Stamps as this hall, are on the wrong county.
How a Lafayette public finds #1 and #5 Courthouse Square
Courthouse / County Judge: #1 Courthouse Square, Lewisville, AR 71845 (870-921-4858). County Clerk: #2. Circuit Clerk: #3. Sheriff / jail: #5 Courthouse Square (870-921-4258). Confirm live doors at lafayettecounty.arkansas.gov before you drive. A student who only knows a Louisiana photograph, or a Fayetteville campus, has not found this square.
5 Courthouse Square still jails. Stamps PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Lafayette — Stamps remainder, Bradley remainder, Buckner country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Stamps is often Stamps Police. This Sheriff is not that badge. County and ASA list the Lafayette County Jail at #5 Courthouse Square on the same numbered square as the court. That house is this badge’s shop — ASA 60 beds, male and female. It is not Louisiana detention. It is not ADC. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Stamps as this hall, to Lafayette, Louisiana, or to Little Rock.
Civil process and court security at 1 Courthouse Square are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a timber gate. Remedy for Stamps Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Red River floods is this count first.
What southwest Arkansas actually watches from Lewisville
Court calendars on a square that shares a cemetery. A wreck on U.S. 82. High water on the Red River. A night road outside Stamps. Coordination with Stamps Police and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Miller’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Texarkana as this hall. A Louisiana photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Lewisville remains the hall.
Lewisville snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Lewisville · Large town (not the hall): Stamps · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + nine Justices of the Peace · court #1 Courthouse Square · jail #5
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and jail this Sheriff still holds · jail #5 Courthouse Square · ASA 60
- Neighbors: Hempstead · Nevada · Columbia · Webster Parish, LA · Bossier Parish, LA · Miller
- Not Lafayette, Louisiana · Not Fayetteville · Not Stamps as this hall
What Lewisville is not — not Louisiana, not Fayetteville, not the capital
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Lewisville is the seat.
- Not Stamps as the county hall. Stamps is the large town.
- Not Lafayette, Louisiana. Not Lafayette Parish. Not Fayetteville. Not Washington County.
- Not Hope as this hall. Not Magnolia. Not Texarkana.
- Not Stamps PD as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.