Pope County, Arkansas
Pope County, Arkansas · Russellville, Arkansas is the seat · not Franklin County, Alabama · Little Rock is the capital
Russellville, Arkansas is the hall. This is not Franklin County, Alabama.
Pope County, Arkansas, was created 2 November 1829 from Crawford and named for John Pope, third Arkansas Territorial governor. Association of Arkansas Counties: Russellville is the county seat. Russellville, Arkansas, is also the large city on this map. Dover was the seat from 1840 to 1888. Dover is a town now — not this hall. Norristown was an earlier seat on the river — not this hall. Atkins, Pottsville, London, and Hector are not the hall.
This is not Franklin County, Alabama. That seat is Russellville, Alabama — already unique. Do not file an Alabama river town as this oval. This is not Pope County, Illinois / Minnesota / Illinois-named halls. Arkansas Tech University sits in Russellville — it is a campus, not this government. Do not read this page as Alabama-with-a-river or Tech-as-this-Sheriff. Russellville, Arkansas, is a River Valley city with its own 1931 Art Deco courthouse, its own Emergency Lane detention house, and its own Sheriff.
The courthouse lists at 100 West Main Street, Russellville, AR 72801 — three-story buff brick, 1931–32, architect H. Ray Burks, 5th Judicial Circuit. County Judge, County Clerk, Circuit Clerk, Collector, Treasurer, and Assessor list on West Main. The Sheriff lists at #3 Emergency Lane, Russellville, AR 72802. Detention is the Pope County Detention Center on that Emergency Lane campus. Aggregators that print 100 West Main as the jail are printing the courthouse, not the live house. Russellville, Arkansas, remains the hall.
Places include Russellville, Atkins, Dover, Pottsville, London, Hector, and the River Valley remainder. 2020 census: 63,381 (Association of Arkansas Counties). This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — River Valley remainder patrol and Emergency Lane this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Pope County.
Thirteen JPs at 100 West Main. They do not hire this badge.
Pope is a County Judge plus a thirteen-member Quorum Court of Justices of the Peace (AAC listing). Amendment 55 made the Judge the executive and the Quorum Court the legislature. County Judge lists at 100 West Main Street. They fund roads, the Main Street hall, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Russellville City Council is a city body. Atkins and Dover are city bodies. None of those is this Quorum Court.
County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate on West Main. This county elects a separate Collector at 100 West Main. Do not invent a combined Sheriff-Collector here. Confirm live at arcounties.org/counties/pope and popecountyar.gov.
The Sheriff is four years, Arkansas Constitution Article 7, § 46 as amended by 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). Primary runoff Tuesday, 31 March 2026 (already sat where needed). 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 — a different desk.
Arkansas River, Lake Dardanelle, Ozark NF north. Little Rock is the capital and it is not here.
I-40 and Arkansas 7 are through roads. Lake Dardanelle sits on the Arkansas River. Ozark National Forest is the north. Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is land. Arkansas Nuclear One lists at London — a generating station, not this badge. Johnson is west — Clarksville, Arkansas, is that hall. Logan is southwest — Paris is that Sheriff hall. Yell is south — Danville / Dardanelle are those dual seats. Conway is southeast — Morrilton is that hall. Van Buren and Searcy are east and northeast. Newton is north — Jasper is that hall. Staff who paste a Franklin County, Alabama, photograph onto West Main, or treat Arkansas Tech as this government, or file the State Capitol as this seat, are on the wrong county.
How a Russellville public finds Main Street and Emergency Lane
County Judge / Quorum Court / Circuit Clerk: 100 West Main Street, Russellville, AR 72801. Sheriff headquarters and detention: #3 Emergency Lane, Russellville, AR 72802 — office (479) 968-2558. Jail line ASA (479) 968-5599. Confirm live doors at popecountyar.gov/sheriff and arcounties.org/counties/pope before you drive. A student who only knows a Russellville, Alabama, photograph, or only a Little Rock Capitol postcard, has not found Russellville, Arkansas.
3 Emergency Lane still jails. Russellville PD does not. Arkansas Tech is a campus.
Crime in unincorporated Pope — Dover remainder, Atkins remainder, Pottsville remainder, London remainder, I-40 frontage, Arkansas 7 into the Ozarks — is this Sheriff. Crime in Russellville is often Russellville Police. This Sheriff is not that badge. Atkins Police and Dover Police are city badges. Arkansas Tech University Police is a campus badge. The Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association lists Pope County Detention Center at the Emergency Lane campus — male and female, published capacity 173. That house is this badge’s shop (A.C.A. § 12-41-502). It is not a separate county Department of Corrections that retired this jailer.
Arkansas Tech is not this Sheriff. Arkansas Nuclear One is not this badge. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Franklin County, Alabama, to a Tech campus police desk, or to Little Rock as this hall.
Care without inventing a river-valley chapel as this county
A peace order served in unincorporated Dover remainder. A court-ordered transport from 3 Emergency Lane to 100 West Main without becoming Russellville PD. Do not invent a church. Do not invent a Tech visitor center as this oval.
What Pope actually watches
Court calendar on West Main. A wreck on I-40. Fog on Lake Dardanelle. Ice toward Arkansas 7 north. High water on the Arkansas River. Coordination with Russellville Police, Atkins Police, Arkansas Tech Police, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Johnson’s Sheriff or Yell’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. The river is geography. It is not Alabama as this hall. It is not Little Rock as this seat.
Russellville snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Russellville, Arkansas · the large city on this map · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock · not here
- Government: thirteen-member Quorum Court · County Judge 100 West Main · separate Clerk and Circuit Clerk · court 100 West Main
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ and jail #3 Emergency Lane — ASA 173-bed male and female, confirm live door · 100 West Main is the courthouse, not the live jail
- Neighbors: Johnson · Logan · Yell · Conway · Van Buren · Searcy · Newton
- Not Franklin County, Alabama / Russellville, Alabama · Not Arkansas Tech as this government · Not an Alabama-with-a-river rewrite
What Russellville, Arkansas is not, as this county
- Not Franklin County, Alabama. Not Russellville, Alabama. That oval is already unique.
- Not Dover as the hall now. Not Atkins as the county government. Not Pottsville as the hall.
- Not Arkansas Tech as this government. Not Russellville Police as this Sheriff.
- Not Arkansas Nuclear One as this badge. Not Lake Dardanelle as a second oval.
- Not Little Rock as this county government — Little Rock is still the state capital.
- Not a campaign flyer.