Randolph County, Arkansas
Randolph County · Pocahontas, Arkansas is the seat · Randolph County, Alabama is Wedowee · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Pocahontas, Arkansas kept the seat. Bettis Bluff did not become Iowa.
Randolph County, Arkansas, was erected 29 October 1835 by the last Territorial Legislature from Lawrence and named for John Randolph of Roanoke. Pocahontas, formerly Bettis Bluff, has held the seat since the county organized. Pocahontas, Arkansas is the seat. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. This is not Randolph County, Alabama. Wedowee is that hall — already unique. This is not Pocahontas, Iowa. This is not Pocahontas, Virginia. Maynard, Reyno, Biggers, O’Kean, and Ravenden Springs are towns in this county — they are not the hall. Staff who paste Wedowee onto Broadway, or file an Iowa river town as this oval, or treat a Virginia postcard as this seat, are on the wrong county.
Places include Pocahontas, Maynard, Reyno, Biggers, O’Kean, and Ravenden Springs. 2020 census: 18,571. About 656 square miles. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a house this badge still holds on Pace Road — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Randolph County.
Nine Justices on a sunken garden. The 1875 cupola is a landmark, not the live court.
Randolph is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court. They fund roads, Pace Road detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Regular assembly is the second Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the courtroom at 107 West Broadway. Pocahontas City Council is a city body. Maynard’s town board is a town body. The Alabama Legislature sits in Montgomery. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The live courthouse lists at 107 West Broadway Street, Pocahontas, AR 72455 — 1940–1941 Art Deco brick and concrete (Eugene John Stern; WPA), National Register 1996, sunken garden and wide steps. The Old Randolph County Courthouse (Italianate, finished 1875) still stands on the hill across the street as a civic landmark — chamber and tourism, not the live court. County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate desks in the 1940 hall. Confirm live doors before you drive; the Sheriff’s site is the thickest official door at randolphcountysheriff.org. Wedowee is Alabama. Little Rock is Pulaski.
The Sheriff is four years, Article 7, § 46 / 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). 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.
Five rivers and a Missouri wall. Little Rock is the capital.
Northeast Arkansas. Ozarks to the west, Delta to the east. The Black, Current, Spring, Eleven Point, and Fourche sit on this map. Missouri is the north wall — Oregon County and Ripley County are that state, not this oval. Clay and Greene are east. Lawrence is south — Walnut Ridge / Powhatan are those halls. Sharp is west. Staff who paste Wedowee onto Pace, or treat Pocahontas, Iowa as this oval, or file Virginia as this seat, or file Little Rock as this hall, are on the wrong county.
How a Pocahontas public finds Broadway and Pace Road
Courthouse / County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 107 West Broadway Street, Pocahontas, AR 72455. Sheriff HQ / Detention: 1510 Pace Road, Pocahontas, AR 72455 — (870) 892-8888. Confirm live doors at randolphcountysheriff.org before you drive. A student who only knows a Wedowee postcard, or an Iowa river photograph, or a Virginia namesake, has not found this campus.
One hundred beds on Pace. Marr Street Community Correction is ADC.
Crime in unincorporated Randolph — Maynard remainder, Reyno remainder, Ravenden Springs country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Pocahontas is often Pocahontas Police at 410 North Marr. Crime in Maynard is often Maynard Police. This Sheriff is not those badges. ASA lists a 100-bed house for males and females at 1510 Pace Road. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not ADC. The Division of Community Correction Pocahontas Office at 304 Marr Street is state — drug court / area office, not this jail. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Wedowee, to Iowa, or to Virginia.
Civil process and court security at 107 West Broadway are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a Missouri line. Remedy for Pocahontas Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Black River rises is this count first.
What this five-river county actually watches from Pocahontas
Court calendars at 107 West Broadway. Ice on the Missouri wall. High water on the Black or the Current. A night road toward Ravenden Springs. Coordination with Pocahontas Police, Maynard, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Lawrence’s Sheriff or Clay’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Walnut Ridge or Piggott as this hall. A Wedowee photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Pocahontas, Arkansas remains the hall.
Pocahontas snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Pocahontas, Arkansas · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + nine Justices of the Peace · live court 107 West Broadway (1940 Art Deco) · 1875 Italianate is a landmark · separate County Clerk and Circuit Clerk
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 1510 Pace Road · ASA 100-bed male and female
- Neighbors: Oregon County, Missouri · Ripley County, Missouri · Clay · Greene · Lawrence · Sharp
- Not Wedowee, Alabama · Not Pocahontas, Iowa · Not Pocahontas, Virginia
What Pocahontas, Arkansas is not — not Wedowee, not Iowa, not Virginia
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Pocahontas is the seat.
- Not Randolph County, Alabama. Not Wedowee.
- Not Pocahontas, Iowa. Not Pocahontas, Virginia.
- Not Pocahontas PD as this Sheriff. Not Maynard PD as this oval. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not 304 Marr Street as this jail. That Community Correction door is ADC.
- Not a campaign flyer.