Pike County, Alabama
Pike County · Troy, Alabama · the southeast seat sits here · Pike County, Georgia, is a different Pike
Troy, Alabama is the hall. Brundidge is a town. This is not Pike County, Georgia.
Pike County, Alabama, was erected 17 December 1821 and named for General Zebulon Pike. Troy, Alabama is the seat. Troy is also the large city. Brundidge is a town — it is not the hall. Goshen, Banks, and Glenwood are towns. Troy University is the large employer and a school. Troy University Police is a different badge. This is not Pike County, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, or Arkansas. By the 2020 census: 33,009. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here — though Montgomery County is the northwest neighbor.
Places include Troy, Brundidge, Goshen, Banks, and Glenwood. 2020 census: 33,009. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — southeast-Alabama patrol and the Three Notch jail this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Pike County.
Six members. Chair from membership annually. They do not sit in Brundidge as this county.
Pike is a six-member County Commission (Examiners of Public Accounts). District lines are local law (§ 45-55-71.01). The chair is elected from the membership annually (Ala. Code § 45-55-70.01). The Judge of Probate does not serve as chair of this Commission. That is the local-law split. There is no County Executive. Probate remains at 120 W. Church Street, Troy — the old courthouse. Circuit Clerk / Absentee (SOS) lists 1318 N. Three Notch Street, Troy, AL 36081 — the Pike County Judicial Detention Complex opened August 2023. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Troy City Council is a city body. Brundidge is a town.
The sitting court moved with the jail to North Three Notch Street (12th Judicial Circuit — Coffee and Pike). SOS still lists the Sheriff at Pike County Courthouse, 120 Church Street — confirm live; news and the architecture of the 2023 complex put the Sheriff’s department inside the new judicial building. A Georgia rumor is not this county. A university campus is not this hall.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Troy is a city clock.
U.S. 231, U.S. 29, Three Notch. Montgomery County is northwest.
U.S. Highway 231 and U.S. Highway 29 are the through roads. North Three Notch Street is the new civic spine. The Conecuh River and the Pea River are the water. Bullock is northeast. Barbour is east. Dale is southeast. Coffee is south. Crenshaw is west. Montgomery County is northwest. Staff who paste Pike County, Georgia, onto Three Notch, or treat Troy University as this Sheriff, or file “Brundidge as the hall,” are on the wrong county.
How a Troy public finds the Pike desk
Absentee Election Manager (SOS): 1318 N. Three Notch Street, Troy, AL 36081. Probate / Board of Registrars: 120 W. Church Street, Troy. Sheriff (SOS still lists): Pike County Courthouse, 120 Church Street — live house is the Judicial Detention Complex on North Three Notch (opened August 2023; jail listings also use 1322 N. Three Notch Street). Confirm live addresses on pikecommission.com and the SOS county lookup. A student who only knows a Georgia photograph, or who walks onto the university campus looking for this jail, has not found the county desk.
Three Notch still jails. Troy PD does not. Troy University is not this Sheriff.
Crime in unincorporated Pike — Brundidge country, Goshen, Banks, the roads off U.S. 231 — is this Sheriff. Crime in Troy is often Troy Police. Crime on campus is often Troy University Police. Crime in Brundidge is often Brundidge Police. This Sheriff is not Troy PD. This Sheriff is not TUPD. The Pike County Jail at the Judicial Detention Complex is this Sheriff’s house (Ala. Code § 14-6-1; Examiners of Public Accounts). A kitchen, a tunnel to court, and a 2023 building do not hand the jail to ADOC. Do not invent a Warden split. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Troy University Police or to Pike County, Georgia. Civil process and courthouse security at Three Notch are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Conecuh. Remedy for Troy Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when U.S. 231 ices is this count first.
Care without inventing a university chapel as this county
A peace order served in Brundidge. A transport inside the Three Notch complex without becoming Troy Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Troy University as this badge.
What Pike actually watches
Court calendar on Three Notch. A wreck on U.S. 231. High water on the Conecuh. Fog toward Brundidge. A night road outside Goshen. Coordination with Troy PD, Brundidge PD, TUPD, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Coffee’s Sheriff or Crenshaw’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Georgia photograph does not steal the seat. Montgomery remains the capital.
Troy snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Troy, Alabama · Large city (also the hall): Troy · Town (not the hall): Brundidge · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: six-member Commission · chair elected from membership annually (§ 45-55-70.01) · Probate does not chair · sitting court 1318 N. Three Notch · Probate 120 W. Church
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · live HQ/jail North Three Notch Judicial Detention Complex (SOS still lists 120 Church — confirm)
- Court / Absentee: 1318 N. Three Notch Street (SOS)
- Neighbors: Bullock · Barbour · Dale · Coffee · Crenshaw · Montgomery County
- Not Pike County, Georgia / Kentucky · Not Troy University as this jailer · Not Troy PD as this jailer
What Troy, Alabama is not, as this county
- Not Pike County, Georgia. Not Pike County in Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, or Arkansas.
- Not Brundidge as the hall. Not Montgomery as this county government — Montgomery is still the state capital.
- Not Troy Police as this Sheriff. Not Troy University Police as this jailer. Not ADOC as this jailer.
- Not a campaign flyer.