Pickens County, Alabama
Pickens County · Carrollton · the Mississippi-line seat sits here · Pickens County, South Carolina, is a different Pickens
Carrollton is the hall. Aliceville is the large town. This is not Pickens County, South Carolina.
Pickens County, Alabama, was erected 20 December 1820 and named for General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina. The first seat was Pickensville. The county seat moved to Carrollton in 1830. Carrollton is the seat. Aliceville is the large town. Aliceville is not the hall. Reform, Gordo, and Pickensville are towns. This is not Pickens County, South Carolina. This is not Pickens County, Georgia. Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville is a Bureau of Prisons house on Highway 14. It is not this Sheriff. By the 2020 census: 19,123. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here.
Places include Carrollton, Aliceville, Reform, Gordo, Pickensville, and Ethelsville. 2020 census: 19,123. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Mississippi-line patrol and the Cemetery Street jail this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Pickens County.
Five districts. The chair rotates. They do not sit in Aliceville as this county.
Pickens is a five-member County Commission, one commissioner per district (state audit). The chair rotates from among the membership (ACCA county directory). The Judge of Probate does not serve as chair of this Commission. That is the local-law split. There is no County Executive. Commission business lists 20 Phoenix Avenue, Room 102, Carrollton. Probate lists 50 Courthouse Square, Carrollton. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Aliceville City Council is a city body. Carrollton is the seat town. Gordo and Reform are towns.
The courthouse is listed at 20 Phoenix Avenue, Carrollton, AL 35447 (AlaCourt, 24th Judicial Circuit — Fayette, Lamar, and Pickens) and 50 Courthouse Square (SOS Probate). The Circuit Clerk sits on that Carrollton square. A South Carolina rumor is not this county. An Aliceville photograph is not this hall.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Aliceville is a city clock.
U.S. 82, the Tombigbee, the Mississippi line. Greene is southeast.
U.S. Highway 82 is the through road. Alabama 14 and Alabama 17 cut the west. The Tombigbee and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tom Bevill Lock and Dam country) are the water. Lamar is north. Fayette is northeast. Tuscaloosa is east. Greene is southeast. Sumter is south. Noxubee County, Mississippi is southwest. Lowndes County, Mississippi is west. Staff who paste Pickens County, South Carolina, onto Courthouse Square, or treat Aliceville as the hall, or file “FCI Aliceville as this jail,” are on the wrong county.
How a Carrollton public finds the Pickens desk
Courthouse / Circuit Clerk (AlaCourt): 20 Phoenix Avenue, Carrollton, AL 35447. Probate (SOS): 50 Courthouse Square, #106, Carrollton. Commission: 20 Phoenix Avenue, Room 102. Sheriff HQ and county jail: 188 Cemetery Street, Carrollton, AL 35447 (official Pickens County Sheriff’s Office). Confirm live addresses on pcsoal.org / pickenscountyal.com and the SOS county lookup. Aggregators sometimes paste Aliceville as the seat; the hall is Carrollton. A student who only knows a South Carolina photograph has not found Carrollton.
188 Cemetery still jails. FCI Aliceville is not this Sheriff.
Crime in unincorporated Pickens — Reform country, Gordo, Pickensville, the Mississippi-line roads off U.S. 82 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Aliceville is often Aliceville Police. Crime in Carrollton, Gordo, and Reform is often those municipal departments. This Sheriff is not Aliceville PD. This Sheriff is not Carrollton PD. FCI Aliceville is federal. The Pickens County Jail at 188 Cemetery Street is listed under this Sheriff’s Office, with a Jail Administrator as Sheriff’s staff, not a separate ADOC house and not a BOP warden. Do not invent a Warden split. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to FCI Aliceville. Do not send them to Pickens County, South Carolina. Civil process and courthouse security on the Carrollton square are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Tombigbee. Remedy for Aliceville Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the river comes up is this count first.
Care without inventing a tombigbee chapel as this county
A peace order served in Reform. A transport from 188 Cemetery to 20 Phoenix without becoming Aliceville Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent FCI Aliceville as this badge.
What Pickens actually watches
Court calendar on Phoenix / Courthouse Square. A wreck on U.S. 82. High water on the Tombigbee. Fog toward Gordo. A night road outside Pickensville. Coordination with Aliceville PD, Carrollton PD, Gordo PD, Reform PD, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Fayette’s Sheriff or Greene’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A South Carolina photograph does not steal the seat. Montgomery remains the capital.
Carrollton snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Carrollton, Alabama · Large town (not the hall): Aliceville · Old seat: Pickensville (not the hall now) · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: five district Commissioners · chair rotates from membership · Probate does not chair · courthouse 20 Phoenix Avenue / 50 Courthouse Square
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · HQ and jail 188 Cemetery Street
- Court / Absentee: Carrollton courthouse square (confirm 20 Phoenix / 50 Courthouse Square)
- Neighbors: Lamar · Fayette · Tuscaloosa · Greene · Sumter · Noxubee County, Mississippi · Lowndes County, Mississippi
- Not Pickens County, South Carolina / Georgia · Not Aliceville as the hall · Not FCI Aliceville as this jailer
What Carrollton is not, as this county
- Not Pickens County, South Carolina. Not Pickens County, Georgia.
- Not Aliceville as the hall. Not Pickensville as the hall now. Not Montgomery as this county government — Montgomery is still the state capital.
- Not Aliceville Police as this Sheriff. Not FCI Aliceville as this jailer. Not ADOC as this jailer.
- Not a campaign flyer.