Sebastian County, Arkansas
Sebastian County · Fort Smith is this Sheriff hall · Greenwood is the southern district court · Van Buren is Crawford · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Fort Smith is the Sheriff hall. Greenwood is the other district. Van Buren is Crawford. Little Rock is the capital.
Sebastian County, Arkansas, was erected 6 January 1851 from Crawford, Scott, and Polk and named for William K. Sebastian. Arkansas Constitution Article 13, § 5 lets this county keep two districts and two county seats. Fort Smith is the northern district. Greenwood is the southern district. Two districts. One Sheriff. The Sheriff lists headquarters at 800 South A Street, Fort Smith — not Greenwood square, not Van Buren. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Van Buren is the seat of Crawford County — already unique as a different oval across the Arkansas River. Barling, Lavaca, Hackett, Huntington, Mansfield, Midland, Bonanza, Central City, and Fort Smith the city are municipalities in this county — they are not 800 South A as a substitute for the whole map. Fort Smith National Historic Site / the old federal court is not this Sheriff. Fort Chaffee / Chaffee Crossing is not this badge.
Places include Fort Smith, Greenwood, Barling, Lavaca, Hackett, Huntington, Mansfield, Midland, Bonanza, and Central City. 2020 census: 127,799 — fourth-most populous Arkansas county. This is a border city with a river, not a capital-county clone. This is not Pulaski-with-a-river. Pulaski’s hall is Little Rock. This hall is Fort Smith. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a 356-bed house this badge still holds on South A — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Sebastian County.
Thirteen Justices. Judge at 35 South 6th. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Sebastian is a County Judge plus a thirteen-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at 35 South 6th Street, Room 106, Fort Smith, AR 72901 (479-783-6139). County ordinance sets regular meetings third Tuesday at 6:00 p.m., with a posted intent to sit Greenwood Courthouse quarterly (April, August, October, December). They fund roads, South A detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Fort Smith Board of Directors is a city body. Greenwood City Council is a city body. Van Buren City Council is Crawford. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The Fort Smith courthouse lists at 35 South 6th Street. The Justice Building lists at 901 South B Street. The Greenwood Courthouse lists at 11 Town Square, Greenwood, AR 72936 (some county pages also print 301 East Center — confirm the live southern door). County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate desks. Treasurer and Collector are listed as a combined desk — not this Sheriff. Confirm at sebastiancountyar.gov before you drive. Van Buren is Crawford. Waldron is Scott. Ozark is Franklin. 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.
Arkansas River, Oklahoma line. This is not Pulaski-with-a-river. This is not Crawford.
Western Arkansas. The Arkansas River is the north line toward Crawford. The Oklahoma line is west — Sequoyah County and Le Flore County are Oklahoma. I-40 and I-540 and U.S. 71 are through roads. Crawford is north — Van Buren is that hall. Franklin is east — Ozark is that hall. Logan is east — Paris is that hall. Scott is south — Waldron is that hall. Staff who paste a Van Buren skyline onto South A, or treat Greenwood square as this Sheriff hall, or file Little Rock as this seat, or file this as Pulaski-with-a-river, are on the wrong county.
How a Fort Smith public finds South A, Sixth Street, and Greenwood square
Fort Smith Courthouse / County Judge: 35 South 6th Street, Fort Smith, AR 72901. Justice Building: 901 South B Street. Greenwood Courthouse: 11 Town Square, Greenwood, AR 72936. Sheriff HQ (Fort Smith District): 800 South A Street, Fort Smith, AR 72901 — (479) 783-1051 (24 hours). Adult Detention: 801 South A Street — (479) 783-4988. Greenwood District Sheriff phone: (479) 996-2145. Confirm live doors at sebastiancountyar.gov before you drive. A student who only knows a Van Buren photograph, or a Little Rock postcard, or a Greenwood square as the whole oval, has not found this campus.
801 South A still jails. Fort Smith PD does not. Van Buren does not.
Crime in unincorporated Sebastian — Greenwood remainder, Barling remainder, Lavaca remainder, Hackett country, Huntington country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Fort Smith is often Fort Smith Police. Crime in Greenwood, Barling, or Lavaca is often those municipal departments. Crime in Van Buren is Crawford County / Van Buren municipal — not this badge. This Sheriff is not those badges. County detention pages list a 356-bed Adult Detention Center at 801 South A (built 1995, expanded 2007). ASA prints 335. Confirm live capacity. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not Fort Smith PD. It is not ADC. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Van Buren, to Greenwood square as a substitute jail, or to Little Rock.
Civil process and court security at 35 South 6th and at 11 Town Square are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Oklahoma line. Remedy for Fort Smith Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Arkansas River rises is this count first.
What this Oklahoma-line river city actually watches from South A
Court calendars at 35 South 6th and at Greenwood square. A wreck on I-40 or I-540. High water on the Arkansas River. A night road toward Hackett or Huntington. Fog on the Scott line. Coordination with Fort Smith Police, Greenwood PD, Barling, Lavaca, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Crawford’s Sheriff is mutual aid across a river, not a merger, and not a reason to file Van Buren as this hall. A federal-court photograph does not steal the oval. Little Rock remains the capital. Fort Smith remains this Sheriff hall.
Fort Smith snapshot (verify official sources)
- Sheriff hall: Fort Smith · Other district court: Greenwood · Not this hall: Van Buren (Crawford) · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + thirteen Justices of the Peace · Fort Smith court 35 South 6th · Greenwood court 11 Town Square
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ 800 South A · jail 801 South A
- Neighbors: Crawford · Franklin · Logan · Scott · Sequoyah (OK) · Le Flore (OK)
- Not Crawford as this oval · Not Van Buren as this hall · Not Pulaski-with-a-river · Not Little Rock as this seat
What Fort Smith is not — not Van Buren, not Little Rock, not Pulaski-with-a-river
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Fort Smith is this Sheriff hall.
- Not Van Buren. Not Crawford County. Not the Crawford County Sheriff.
- Not Greenwood square as 800 South A. Greenwood is the southern district court, not a second Sheriff.
- Not Pulaski. Not Pulaski-with-a-river.
- Not Fort Smith PD as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval. Not the old federal court as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.