Limestone County, Alabama
Limestone County · Athens, Alabama · the Tennessee-line seat sits here · this is not Tennessee
Athens, Alabama is the hall. This is not Athens, Tennessee. Huntsville spill is Madison.
Limestone County, Alabama, was erected 6 February 1818. Athens, Alabama, is the seat. Athens is the historic large city of this count. This is not Athens, Tennessee. This is not Limestone County, Texas. Huntsville is Madison County; that city has annexed across the line into Limestone — it is not this hall. The City of Madison straddles Madison and Limestone — it is not this hall. Decatur is mostly Morgan. Elkmont, Ardmore, Lester, and Mooresville are not the hall. Redstone Arsenal is Madison. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here. TVA and Wheeler Lake sit on this map. They are not a substitute for the seat.
Places include Athens, Elkmont, Ardmore (Alabama remainder), Lester, Mooresville, and Limestone remainder of Huntsville and Madison. 2020 census: 103,570. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Tennessee-line patrol and the Elm Street detention house — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Limestone County.
Chairman at large plus four districts. They do not sit in Huntsville as this county.
Limestone is a five-member County Commission: a chairman elected countywide and four district Commissioners. There is no County Executive. They fund roads, the courthouse campus at 200 West Washington Street, the Clinton Street annex, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Athens City Council is a city body. Huntsville City Council is a city body in another county’s hall, even where that city has crossed this line.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Athens is a city clock.
I-65, the Tennessee line, Wheeler Lake. This is not Limestone County, Texas.
I-65 and I-565, U.S. 72, and U.S. 31 are the through roads. The Tennessee River / Wheeler Lake is the south water. Browns Ferry is a TVA plant on this map — it is not this jail. Madison is east. Morgan is south. Lawrence is southwest. Lauderdale is west. Giles County, Tennessee, is north. Staff who paste an Athens, Tennessee square onto Washington Street, or treat Huntsville as this hall, or file “Limestone County, Texas,” are on the wrong county.
How an Athens public finds the Limestone desk — Washington, Clinton, Elm
The courthouse sits at 200 West Washington Street, Athens, AL 35611 (limestonecounty-al.gov). Circuit Clerk / Absentee Election Manager: 200 Washington Street W., Athens, AL 35611 (39th Judicial Circuit). County Commission primary office: 310 West Washington Street. Clinton Street Courthouse Annex: 100 South Clinton Street. Sheriff administration and Detention Facility: 101 West Elm Street, Athens, AL 35611 (limestonecounty-al.gov and the Secretary of State listing). Confirm live addresses on those doors. A student who only knows a Huntsville photograph has not found Athens.
101 West Elm still jails. Athens PD does not. Redstone is Madison.
Crime in unincorporated Limestone — Elkmont country, Ardmore remainder, the I-65 frontage outside city limits — is this Sheriff. Crime in Athens is often Athens Police. Crime in Huntsville remainder is often Huntsville Police. The Limestone County Detention Facility at 101 West Elm Street is this Sheriff’s house. Official minutes put the jail at that Elm Street door. 2026 reporting described a 2005 house the county has outgrown, with expansion work on the same campus. Ala. Code § 14-6-1 still puts the jail on this Sheriff. It is not a Warden-department split. It is not Madison County’s Wheeler Avenue house. ALEA is the state. Civil process and court security at 200 West Washington are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Tennessee line. Remedy for Athens Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Wheeler Lake comes up is this count first.
Care without inventing a TVA chapel as this county
A peace order served in Elkmont. A transport from 101 West Elm to 200 West Washington without becoming Athens Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Browns Ferry as this badge.
What a Tennessee-line growth county actually watches — without becoming Huntsville
Court calendar on Washington Street. A wreck on I-65. High water on Wheeler Lake. Fog toward Ardmore. Coordination with Athens Police, Huntsville Police, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with a Madison sheriff across the east line is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Tennessee photograph does not steal the seat. Montgomery remains the capital.
Athens snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Athens, Alabama · Not Athens, Tennessee · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: chairman at large plus four districts · court 200 West Washington Street
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention at 101 West Elm Street
- Neighbors: Madison · Morgan · Lawrence · Lauderdale · Giles County, Tennessee
- Not Huntsville as the hall · Not Limestone County, Texas · Not Redstone as this jail
What Athens is not, as this county
- Not Athens, Tennessee. Not Limestone County, Texas.
- Not Huntsville as the county government. Not Madison County. Not the capital.
- Not Athens Police as this Sheriff. Not Redstone. Not TVA as this badge.
- Not a campaign flyer.