Phillips County, Arkansas
Phillips County · Helena-West Helena · the county seat sits here · the Mississippi is the eastern wall · Phillips County, Colorado, is not this hall · Little Rock is the capital and it is not this oval
Helena-West Helena is the seat. The Mississippi is the wall. Colorado is a different state. That split is mandatory.
Phillips County, Arkansas, was created 1 May 1820 and named for Sylvanus Phillips. The 1915 Classical Revival courthouse stands at 622 Cherry Street in Helena-West Helena, just inside the Mississippi River levee. Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Frank W. Gibb, Corinthian columns, National Register 5 July 1977, Cherry Street Historic District. A World War I doughboy stands at the courtyard. Clerks and the County Judge list 620 Cherry Street as the working door inside that house. Helena and West Helena merged in 2006. The live city is Helena-West Helena. Marvell is a city, not the hall. Elaine is a city, not the hall. Lexa is not the hall.
This is not Phillips County, Colorado. Colorado’s Phillips County seat is Holyoke — a different unique map. This is not Phillips County, Montana / Kansas. This is not Memphis. Memphis is Shelby County, Tennessee, across and up the river. This is not Lee County. Lee’s hall is Marianna. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas. It does not sit here.
The Mississippi River, St. Francis National Forest (the smallest of the national forests), and White River National Wildlife Refuge sit on this map. They are land, not a second sheriff.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Delta remainder patrol and the 100-bed house this badge still holds at 1804 Martin Luther King Drive — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Phillips County.
Eleven justices at 622 Cherry. They do not sit in Colorado as this county.
Phillips 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. County Judge 620 Cherry Street, Suite 208, Helena-West Helena, AR 72342, phone 870-338-5500. Live Sheriff copy: Quorum Court meets the second Tuesday at the courthouse. They fund roads, the 1915 courthouse, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Helena-West Helena City Council is a city body. Marvell is not this commission as the whole county.
County Clerk: 620 Cherry Street, Suite 202, phone 870-338-5505. Circuit Clerk: 620 Cherry, phone 870-338-5515. An older Colorado rumor is not this county. Memphis as this hall is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Art. 7 § 46, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 1 January 2027. Colorado’s Sheriff clock is a different constitution. The Mayor of Helena-West Helena is a city clock.
Mississippi River, U.S. 49, Crowley's Ridge south end. Little Rock is the capital and it is not here.
U.S. 49, U.S. 49 Business, and the Great River Road are the through roads. Flat Delta farmland. The Mississippi is the eastern wall. Lee is north — Marianna is that hall; East Arkansas Regional Unit is ADC there. Coahoma County, Mississippi, is east. Desha is south. Arkansas County is southwest — DeWitt and Stuttgart are that hall. Monroe is west. Staff who paste a Colorado plains photograph onto Cherry Street, or treat Memphis as this county government, or file “Helena as the capital,” are on the wrong county.
How a Helena-West Helena public finds the Phillips desk — and how a Marvell public still uses the same Sheriff
County Judge / County Clerk: 620 Cherry Street, Helena-West Helena, AR 72342. Sheriff: Association of Arkansas Counties and the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association list 1804 Martin Luther King Drive, Helena, AR 72342, mailing P.O. Box 450, office 870-338-5555. Combined Sheriff-Collector. Confirm the live door at phillipscountysheriffar.org. A student who only knows a Colorado photograph, or only a Memphis postcard, has not found Helena-West Helena. A student in Marvell still uses this Sheriff — Elaine is a city, not a second oval.
1804 Martin Luther King Drive still jails. 1806 MLK is ADC. Helena-West Helena PD is the city.
Crime in unincorporated Phillips — Delta farm roads, St. Francis National Forest remainder, Marvell country, Elaine country, the levee — is this Sheriff. Crime in Helena-West Helena is often Helena-West Helena Police. This Sheriff is not that department. Live ASA lists a 100-bed house, male and federal, at 1804 Martin Luther King Drive. Jail phone listed 870-816-5881. Older locator copy still prints 620 Cherry / Hickey Detention Center — confirm the live booking door on the Sheriff’s own site. Arkansas Department of Corrections Phillips County Detention Center at 1806 Martin Luther King Jr Drive is a state Supervision Sanction Center — not this jailer. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to ADC, to Colorado, to Memphis, or to Marvell as this oval. Civil process and courthouse security at 622 / 620 Cherry are the Sheriff. Rights do not change on the levee. Remedy for Helena-West Helena Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Mississippi rises is this count first.
Care without inventing a levee chapel as this county
A peace order served in Marvell. A transport from 1804 Martin Luther King Drive without becoming Helena-West Helena PD and without becoming Lee County. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Colorado as this badge. Do not invent Memphis as this hall.
What this Mississippi-River county actually watches
Court calendar on Cherry Street. A wreck on U.S. 49. High water against the levee. Fog on a Delta farm road. Ice toward Elaine. Coordination with Helena-West Helena Police and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Lee’s Sheriff or Monroe’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Colorado photograph does not steal the seat. A Memphis photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. This remains Helena-West Helena.
Helena-West Helena snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Helena-West Helena · Mississippi River / Arkansas Delta · not Phillips County, Colorado · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock · Marvell is not the hall
- Government: Quorum Court of eleven · County Judge 620 Cherry Suite 208 · court 622 Cherry
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · 1804 Martin Luther King Drive · ASA 100 beds · combined Collector
- Neighbors: Lee (Marianna) · Coahoma County, Mississippi · Desha · Arkansas County · Monroe
- Not Colorado · Not Montana · Not Kansas · Not Memphis as this hall · Not 1806 MLK as this jailer (ADC)
What Helena-West Helena is not, as this county
- Not Phillips County, Colorado. Not Holyoke. Not Phillips County, Montana / Kansas.
- Not Memphis. Not Shelby County, Tennessee.
- Not Marvell as the hall. Not Elaine as the hall.
- Not 1806 Martin Luther King Drive as this jailer — that listing is ADC.
- Not Helena-West Helena PD as this Sheriff.
- Not the state capital. Little Rock is still the capital.
- Not a campaign flyer.