Miller County, Arkansas
Miller County · Texarkana, Arkansas is the seat · Texarkana, Texas is Bowie County · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Texarkana, Arkansas is the hall. Texarkana, Texas is Bowie County. Little Rock is the capital.
Miller County, Arkansas, was first erected 1 April 1820 and named for James Miller, first territorial governor. That first county was abolished in 1838 after the Texas line hardened. The live county was recreated 22 December 1874 from Lafayette. Texarkana, Arkansas is the seat. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Texarkana, Texas is a city in Bowie County, Texas — a different state, a different Sheriff, a different hall. Fouke, Garland, and Genoa are cities and towns in this county — they are not the hall. The Bi-State Justice Building at 100 State Line Avenue is a district-court campus on the line. It is not 400 Laurel. It is not this Sheriff. This is not Little Rock. This is not Miller as Pulaski.
Places include Texarkana, Fouke, Garland, Genoa, and Doddridge. 2020 census: 42,600. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a 300-bed house this badge still holds on East Street — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Miller County.
Eleven Justices at 400 Laurel. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Miller is a County Judge plus an eleven-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at 400 Laurel Street #115, Texarkana, AR 71854. Quorum Court meets the second Monday at 6:00 p.m. in the third-floor Quorum Court Room. They fund roads, East Street detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Texarkana, Arkansas City Board is a city body. Texarkana, Texas City Council is a Texas body. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 400 Laurel Street — 1939 PWA limestone (National Register 1998), 8th Circuit South (Miller and Lafayette). County Clerk is 400 Laurel #105. Circuit Clerk is a separate desk in the same building. Confirm at millercountyar.gov before you drive. Bowie County is Texas. Ashdown is Little River. Little Rock is Pulaski.
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.
Red River, the Texas line, southwest corner. This is not Little Rock.
Southwest Arkansas. The Red River forms the north and east lines — Miller is one of two Arkansas counties (with Little River) separated from every other Arkansas county by water. I-30 and U.S. 71 are through roads. Bowie County, Texas is west. Cass County, Texas is southwest. Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish are south. Lafayette is east — Lewisville is that hall. Hempstead is northeast — Hope is that hall. Little River is north across the river — Ashdown is that hall. Staff who paste a Texas-side skyline onto Laurel, or treat the Bi-State Justice Building as this oval, or file Little Rock as this seat, or file this as Bowie-with-an-Arkansas-zip, are on the wrong county.
How a Texarkana, Arkansas public finds Laurel Street and East Street
Courthouse / County Judge / County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 400 Laurel Street, Texarkana, AR 71854. Sheriff HQ / Detention: 2300 East Street, Texarkana, AR 71854 — office (870) 774-3001, detention (870) 779-3611. Confirm live doors at millercountyar.gov and millercountyso.us before you drive. A student who only knows a Texas-side photograph, or a State Line postcard, or Little Rock, has not found this campus.
East Street still jails. Texarkana PD does not. Bowie County does not.
Crime in unincorporated Miller — Fouke remainder, Garland remainder, Genoa country, Doddridge country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Texarkana, Arkansas is often Texarkana Arkansas Police. Crime in Texarkana, Texas is Bowie County / Texas municipal — not this badge. This Sheriff is not those badges. ASA lists a 300-bed house at 2300 East Street. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not the Bi-State Justice Building. It is not ADC. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to State Line Avenue, to Bowie County, or to Little Rock.
Civil process and court security at 400 Laurel are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the state line. Remedy for Texarkana Arkansas Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Red River rises is this count first.
What this state-line Red River county actually watches from Laurel
Court calendars at 400 Laurel. A wreck on I-30 or U.S. 71. High water on the Red River. A night road toward Fouke. Coordination with Texarkana Arkansas Police, Fouke, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Bowie County’s Sheriff is mutual aid across a state line, not a merger, and not a reason to file Texas as this hall. A State Line photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Texarkana, Arkansas remains the hall.
Texarkana, Arkansas snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Texarkana, Arkansas · Not this hall: Texarkana, Texas (Bowie County) · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + eleven Justices of the Peace · court 400 Laurel · County Clerk #105 · Circuit Clerk separate
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 2300 East Street
- Neighbors: Little River · Hempstead · Lafayette · Bowie (TX) · Cass (TX) · Caddo / Bossier (LA)
- Not Bowie County as this oval · Not Little Rock as this seat · Not the Bi-State Justice Building as this hall
What Texarkana, Arkansas is not — not Bowie County, not Little Rock
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Texarkana, Arkansas is the seat.
- Not Texarkana, Texas. Not Bowie County. Not the Bowie County Sheriff.
- Not the Bi-State Justice Building as this hall. Not State Line Avenue as 400 Laurel.
- Not Lafayette County. Not Ashdown. Not Hope as this oval.
- Not Texarkana Arkansas PD as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.