Saline County, Arkansas
Saline County · Benton, Arkansas — the city — is the seat · Benton County is Bentonville · Bryant is not the hall · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Benton the city is this hall. Bentonville is Benton County. Two halls. Two counties.
Saline County, Arkansas, was erected 2 November 1835 from Pulaski and named for the salt springs. Benton has held the seat from the start. Benton, Arkansas — the city of Benton — is the seat. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Little Rock sits in Pulaski, the capital county. Bentonville is the seat of Benton County — already unique. Two different counties. Two different halls. A corporate campus in Bentonville is not 200 North Main. Bryant is a large city on this map (2020: 20,663) — it is not the hall. Benton itself is larger (2020: 35,014) and is both the seat and the large city. Bauxite, Shannon Hills, Haskell, Alexander, Traskwood, and East End are places in this county — they are not the hall. Staff who paste Bentonville onto Neeley, or treat Bryant as this oval, or file Little Rock as this seat, are on the wrong county.
Places include Benton, Bryant, Bauxite, Shannon Hills, Haskell, Alexander, and Traskwood. 2020 census: 123,416. About 751 square miles. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a house this badge still holds on South Neeley — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Saline County.
Thirteen Justices at 200 North Main. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Saline is a County Judge plus a thirteen-member Quorum Court. They fund roads, Neeley detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Regular assembly is the third Monday at 6:00 p.m. in Courtroom #3 at the courthouse. Benton City Council is a city body. Bryant City Council is a city body. Bentonville’s government is Benton County’s map. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 200 North Main Street, Benton, AR 72015 — 1901–1902 Romanesque Revival pressed yellow brick with a clock tower (Charles L. Thompson), 22nd Circuit. County Clerk also lists 215 North Main. County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate. Collector is a separate constitutional desk. Confirm live doors before you drive; the Sheriff’s site is the thickest official door at scsosheriff.org. County government also lists salinecounty.org. Bentonville is Benton County. 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.
I-30, the Saline River, a Little Rock suburb. Pulaski is the capital county.
Central Arkansas, I-30 corridor, fastest-growing county in the Little Rock MSA by rate 2010–2020. The Saline River sits on this map. Pulaski is northeast — Little Rock is that hall and the capital. Grant and Hot Spring are south. Garland is west — Hot Springs is that hall; Hot Springs Village can straddle a line, it is not this oval. Perry is northwest. Staff who paste Bentonville onto Main, or treat Bryant as this oval, or file Pulaski as this county, are on the wrong county.
How a Benton public finds North Main and South Neeley
Courthouse / Circuit Clerk: 200 North Main Street, Benton, AR 72015. County Clerk: 215 North Main. Sheriff HQ / Detention: 735 South Neeley Street, Benton, AR 72015 — admin (501) 303-5609, detention (501) 303-5642, non-emergency (501) 303-5648. Confirm live doors at scsosheriff.org before you drive. A student who only knows a Bentonville campus photograph, or a Bryant interchange, or the State Capitol, has not found this campus.
Two hundred fifty beds on Neeley. Benton Unit on U.S. 67 is ADC.
Crime in unincorporated Saline — Bryant remainder, Bauxite remainder, Haskell country, East End — is this Sheriff. Crime in Benton is often Benton Police. Crime in Bryant is often Bryant Police. This Sheriff is not those badges. ASA lists a 250-bed house for males and females at 735 South Neeley. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not ADC. Benton Unit at 6701 U.S. 67 is Arkansas Department of Corrections — state, not this Sheriff. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Bentonville, to Bryant City Hall, or to U.S. 67 as this oval.
Civil process and court security at 200 North Main are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at an I-30 interchange. Remedy for Benton Police is the City. Remedy for Bryant Police is Bryant. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Saline River rises is this count first.
What this I-30 county actually watches from Benton
Court calendars at 200 North Main. A wreck on I-30. High water on the Saline River. A night road toward Haskell or Bauxite. Coordination with Benton Police, Bryant, Shannon Hills, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Pulaski’s Sheriff or Grant’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Little Rock or Sheridan as this hall. A Bentonville photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Benton the city remains the hall.
Benton snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Benton, Arkansas (the city) · Other large city (not this hall): Bryant · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock in Pulaski
- Not this county: Bentonville / Benton County
- Government: County Judge + thirteen Justices of the Peace · court 200 North Main (1902 Thompson) · 22nd Circuit · separate County Clerk, Circuit Clerk, Collector
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 735 South Neeley · ASA 250-bed male and female
- Neighbors: Pulaski · Grant · Hot Spring · Garland · Perry
- Not Bentonville as this hall · Not Benton Unit ADC as this jail · Not Bryant as this oval
What Benton the city is not — not Bentonville, not Bryant as this hall
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Benton is the seat.
- Not Bentonville. Not Benton County. Two halls.
- Not Bryant as the county hall. Bryant is a large city on this map.
- Not Benton PD as this Sheriff. Not Bryant PD as this oval. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not Benton Unit on U.S. 67 as this jail. That house is ADC.
- Not a campaign flyer.