Ouachita County, Arkansas
Ouachita County · Camden, Arkansas · the county seat sits here · Camden, Alabama, is not this hall · Monroe, Louisiana, is Ouachita Parish
Camden, Arkansas, is the seat. Camden, Alabama, is a different state. That split is mandatory.
Ouachita County, Arkansas, was established 29 November 1842 from Union and named for the Ouachita River (Washita). Encyclopedia of Arkansas: a French trapper’s landing became Camden, the seat. 2020 population 22,650. About 733 square miles of land. Camden is both the seat and the large city — roughly 10,000 of the county’s people. Bearden, Stephens, Chidester, East Camden, and Louann are not the hall.
The live courthouse is the 1933 buff-brick Georgian / Colonial Revival house at 145 Jefferson Street SW, Camden, AR 71701. National Register 13 November 1989. Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Thomas Harding Jr.; built after a 13 December 1931 tornado flattened the 1888 Victorian Gothic house on the same site. Clock cupola. Two second-floor courtrooms. The county seat is Camden, Arkansas. That split is mandatory. Camden, Alabama, is the seat of Wilcox County — already unique SuperHeavy. Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, seats at Monroe, Louisiana — a different state, a parish not a county, not this hall. Do not file an Alabama Sheriff, a Monroe, Louisiana, parish hall, or a Bearden oval as this county.
Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It sits in Pulaski County. It does not sit here.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — river-bluff timber patrol and the Goodgame detention house this badge still holds in Camden — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Ouachita County.
Eleven justices at 145 Jefferson. They do not sit in Wilcox County as this county.
Ouachita is an elected Quorum Court of eleven justices of the peace. Justices sit two years. The County Judge is the chief executive (Amendment 55), presides, has no vote, and holds the veto. AAC lists the County Judge at 145 Jefferson Street SW, Camden, AR 71701 (870-837-2210). County Clerk 145 Jefferson (870-837-2220). They fund roads, the 1933 house, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Camden City Council is a city body. Bearden is not this commission as the whole county.
AAC lists this Sheriff as combined Collector. Confirm the live listing — do not invent a split the county does not post. An Alabama rumor is not this county. A Monroe, Louisiana, postcard is not this county. 13th Judicial Circuit is the circuit, not a second sheriff.
The Sheriff is four years, Art. 7 § 46, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 1 January 2027. Alabama’s Sheriff clock is a different constitution. The Mayor of Camden, Arkansas, is a city clock. The Mayor of Camden, Alabama, is a different state.
Ouachita River, timber, Highway 79. El Dorado is Union. Little Rock is the capital.
U.S. 79 and U.S. 278 are the through roads. The river is the land. Dallas is north — Fordyce is that hall. Calhoun is east — Hampton. Union is south — El Dorado is that hall. Columbia is southwest — Magnolia. Nevada is west — Prescott, Arkansas, is that hall. Clark is northwest — Arkadelphia. Staff who paste a Camden, Alabama, Black Belt postcard onto Jefferson Street, or treat Monroe, Louisiana, as this county government, or file “Ouachita as a Louisiana parish,” are on the wrong county.
How a Camden public finds this county — and how a Bearden public still uses the same Sheriff
County Judge / County Clerk: 145 Jefferson Street, Camden, AR 71701. Sheriff and jail: 109 Goodgame Street (870-231-5300). Confirm the live doors at ouachitacountysheriff.org and the AAC Ouachita listing. A student who only knows an Alabama photograph, or only a Louisiana parish courthouse, has not found Camden, Arkansas. A student in Bearden still uses this Sheriff — Stephens is a city, not a second oval.
Goodgame Street still jails. Wilcox County, Alabama, does not. Camden PD is the city.
Crime in unincorporated Ouachita — Bearden country, Stephens roads, Chidester, Louann, timber tracts, river bottoms — is this Sheriff. Crime in Camden is often Camden Police. This Sheriff is not that department. Live ASA lists a 200-bed house, male and female, at 109 Goodgame Street. A 2026 regional jail survey cited a 2010 house at 139 beds. Confirm live capacity on the door the county posts today. Wilcox County, Alabama, Detention is a different jailer in a different state. Ouachita Parish jail in Louisiana is a different jailer in a different state. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Alabama, to Monroe, Louisiana, or to Bearden as this oval. No separate county Department of Corrections turned up — do not invent a jailer split. ADC units are state. They are not this house. Civil process and courthouse security at 145 Jefferson are the Sheriff. Rights do not change on the river bluff. Remedy for Camden Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when a timber ice sits is this count first.
Care without inventing a river-bluff chapel as this county
A peace order served in Stephens. A transport from 109 Goodgame without becoming Camden PD and without becoming Union County. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Camden, Alabama, as this badge. Do not invent Ouachita Parish as this hall.
What this river-bluff county actually watches
Court calendar on Jefferson. A wreck on U.S. 79. Ice on U.S. 278. Fog on a timber road. A night crossing of the Ouachita. Coordination with Camden PD, Bearden’s city desk, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Nevada’s Sheriff or Union’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. An Alabama photograph does not steal the seat. A Louisiana parish photograph does not steal the seat.
Camden, Arkansas, snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Camden, Arkansas · Ouachita River bluff / timber · not Camden, Alabama · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock · not Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
- Government: Quorum Court of eleven · County Judge 145 Jefferson Street SW · court 145 Jefferson (1933)
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · 109 Goodgame Street · ASA 200 / 2026 survey 139 — confirm live · combined Sheriff-Collector
- Neighbors: Dallas · Calhoun · Union · Columbia · Nevada · Clark
- Not Camden, Alabama · Not Wilcox County · Not Ouachita Parish · Not Bearden as the hall · Not El Dorado as this oval
What Camden, Arkansas, is not, as this county
- Not Camden, Alabama. Not Wilcox County, Alabama.
- Not Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Not Monroe, Louisiana, as this hall.
- Not Bearden as the hall. Not Stephens as the hall. Not East Camden as the hall.
- Not El Dorado. Not Union County as this oval.
- Not Camden PD as this Sheriff.
- Not a campaign flyer.