Lamar County, Alabama
Lamar County · Vernon, Alabama · the Mississippi-line seat sits here · this is not Texas
Vernon is the hall. Sulligent is a city. This is not Lamar County, Texas.
Lamar County, Alabama, was first erected 4 February 1867 as Jones County, abolished later that year, recreated 8 October 1868 as Sanford County, and renamed Lamar on 8 February 1877 for Lucius Q. C. Lamar. Vernon is the seat — the town took that name when the county came back; it had been called Swayne. Sulligent is a city. Encyclopedia of Alabama lists Sulligent as the largest city. Sulligent is not the county government. Millport, Beaverton, Detroit, and Kennedy are towns. This is not Lamar County, Texas (Paris). This is not Lamar County, Georgia (Barnesville). This is not Lamar County, Mississippi. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here.
Places include Vernon, Sulligent, Millport, Beaverton, Detroit, and Kennedy. 2020 census: 13,972. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Mississippi-line patrol and the County Road 9 detention house — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Lamar County.
Four districts at Butler Circle. They do not sit in Paris, Texas.
Lamar’s live county door lists four district Commissioners plus an Administrator. Meetings sit at the Courthouse Annex, 205 Butler Circle SW, Vernon. Encyclopedia of Alabama still describes a five-member commission; confirm the live roster on lamarcountyal.gov. There is no County Executive. They fund roads, the 1909 courthouse campus, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Vernon City Council is a city body. Sulligent is a city.
The 1909 courthouse lists at 44690 Highway 17. The Judicial Center (24th Circuit — with Fayette and Pickens) lists at 330 1st Street NE. Circuit Clerk / Absentee Election Manager: 330 1st Street NE (SOS). Probate lists 44690 Hwy 17. Board of Registrars: 205 Butler Circle. A Texas rumor is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Vernon is a city clock.
U.S. 278 and the Mississippi line. Lamar County, Georgia is Barnesville.
U.S. 278 is the through road across the north. Alabama 17 runs north-south through Vernon. Luxapalila Creek and the Buttahatchee drain toward the Tombigbee. Marion is north. Fayette is east. Pickens is south. Monroe County, Mississippi, is west. Lowndes County, Mississippi, is southwest. Staff who paste a Paris, Texas, skyline onto First Street, or treat Barnesville as this hall, or file “Sulligent as the county seat,” are on the wrong county.
How a Vernon public finds the Lamar desk
Courthouse Annex / Commission: 205 Butler Circle SW, Vernon. 1909 courthouse / Probate: 44690 Highway 17. Judicial Center / Circuit Clerk / Absentee: 330 1st Street NE. Sheriff headquarters (SOS): 330 1st Street NE, Vernon, AL 35592. County Jail: 1118 County Road 9, Vernon (ALEA lists a driver-license window at that jail). Confirm live addresses on lamarcountyal.gov and the SOS county lookup. A student who only knows a Texas photograph has not found Vernon.
County Road 9 still jails. Vernon PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Lamar — Millport country, Beaverton, the Mississippi-line roads off U.S. 278 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Vernon is often municipal. Crime in Sulligent is often municipal. This Sheriff is not Vernon PD. The SOS lists the Sheriff at 330 1st Street NE. The jail lists at 1118 County Road 9. No separate county Department of Corrections turned up on the official doors — do not invent a jailer split. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Sulligent City Hall or to Paris, Texas. Civil process and courthouse security at 330 1st Street NE are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Mississippi line. Remedy for Vernon municipal is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Luxapalila comes up is this count first.
Care without inventing a Tombigbee chapel as this county
A peace order served in Millport. A transport from 1118 County Road 9 to 330 1st Street NE without becoming Vernon PD. Do not invent a church. Do not invent a folk-pottery shop as this badge.
What Lamar actually watches
Court calendar on First Street. A wreck on U.S. 278. High water on a Tombigbee tributary. Fog toward the Mississippi line. A night road outside Sulligent. Coordination with Vernon and Sulligent municipal and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Fayette’s Sheriff or Marion’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Texas photograph does not steal the seat.
Vernon snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Vernon, Alabama · Sulligent is a city, not the hall · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: four district Commissioners on the live county roster · Annex 205 Butler Circle SW · Judicial Center 330 1st Street NE
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · HQ 330 1st Street NE · jail 1118 County Road 9
- Neighbors: Marion · Fayette · Pickens · Monroe County, Mississippi · Lowndes County, Mississippi
- Not Lamar County, Texas · Not Lamar County, Georgia · Not Lamar County, Mississippi · Not Sulligent as the hall
What Vernon is not, as this county
- Not Paris, Texas. Not Barnesville, Georgia. Not a Mississippi Lamar.
- Not Sulligent as the county government. Not Millport as the hall.
- Not Montgomery as this county government — Montgomery is still the state capital.
- Not Vernon PD as this Sheriff.
- Not a campaign flyer.