Sevier County, Arkansas
Sevier County · De Queen is the seat · Sevier County, Tennessee, is Sevierville · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
De Queen is the hall. Sevier County, Tennessee, is Sevierville. Little Rock is the capital.
Sevier County, Arkansas, was erected 17 October 1828 from Hempstead and old Miller and named for Ambrose H. Sevier. De Queen is the seat (from 1905). It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. This is not Sevier County, Tennessee. Sevier County, Tennessee, seats at Sevierville — a different state, a different Sheriff, a different hall. Horatio, Lockesburg, and Gillham are cities and towns in this county — they are not the hall. Paraclifta was the first permanent seat (1829–1871), about a mile east of the Cossatot. Lockesburg was the seat 1871–1905. Neither is the live hall. Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge is land. It is not 115 North 3rd.
Places include De Queen, Horatio, Lockesburg, and Gillham. 2020 census: 15,839. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a 74-bed house this badge still holds on West Robinson — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Sevier County.
Nine Justices at 115 North 3rd. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Sevier is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at 115 North 3rd Street, Room 101, De Queen, AR 71832 (870-642-2425). Quorum Court meets the second Monday at 2:00 p.m. in the Conference Room at 115 North 3rd. They fund roads, West Robinson detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. De Queen City Council is a city body. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. Sevierville is Tennessee. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 115 North 3rd Street — 1930–1931 Classical Revival brick (Witt, Seibert & Halsey). County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate desks in this building. Confirm at seviercountyar.org before you drive. Nashville, Arkansas, is Howard. Ashdown is Little River. Mena is Polk. 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.
Cossatot country, Oklahoma line. This is not Tennessee. This is not Little Rock.
Southwest Arkansas. McCurtain County, Oklahoma, is west. The Texas corner sits through Little River to the south. The Cossatot River cuts this map. Dierks Lake and Lake Millwood sit on or against it. U.S. 70 and U.S. 71 are through roads. Polk is north — Mena is that hall. Howard is northeast — Nashville, Arkansas, is that hall. Hempstead is east — Hope is that hall. Little River is south — Ashdown is that hall. Staff who paste a Sevierville postcard onto North 3rd, or treat Lockesburg as the live oval, or file Little Rock as this seat, or file this as Howard-with-poultry, are on the wrong county.
How a De Queen public finds North 3rd and West Robinson
Courthouse / County Judge / clerks / Quorum Court: 115 North 3rd Street, De Queen, AR 71832. Sheriff HQ / Detention: 137 West Robinson Road, De Queen, AR 71832 — office listings (870) 642-6100 and (870) 642-2125. Confirm live doors at seviercountyar.org and seviersheriffar.org before you drive. A student who only knows a Tennessee photograph, or a Lockesburg postcard, or Little Rock, has not found this campus.
West Robinson still jails. Sevierville does not. ADC does not.
Crime in unincorporated Sevier — Horatio remainder, Lockesburg remainder, Gillham country — is this Sheriff. County pages post that this office also provides primary law enforcement for De Queen, Horatio, and Lockesburg. Confirm the live municipal split before you treat a city hall as the whole map, and before you invent a second sheriff. This Sheriff is not Sevier County, Tennessee. ASA lists a 74-bed house (males and females) at 137 West Robinson Road. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not ADC. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Sevierville, to Lockesburg as a substitute jail, or to Little Rock.
Civil process and court security at 115 North 3rd are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the Oklahoma line. Remedy for a Tennessee paper is Tennessee. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Cossatot rises is this count first.
What this Oklahoma-corner county actually watches from De Queen
Court calendars at 115 North 3rd. A wreck on U.S. 71. High water on the Cossatot. A night road toward Horatio or Gillham. Fog on the Little River line. Coordination with whatever municipal departments actually sit, and with ASP, without becoming those departments. Coordination with McCurtain County, Oklahoma, is mutual aid across a state line, not a merger, and not a reason to file Oklahoma as this hall. A Paraclifta marker does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. De Queen remains the hall.
De Queen snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: De Queen · Not this hall: Sevierville (Sevier County, Tennessee) · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + nine Justices of the Peace · court 115 North 3rd · Quorum Court second Monday 2:00 p.m.
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 137 West Robinson Road
- Neighbors: Polk · Howard · Hempstead · Little River · McCurtain (OK)
- Not Sevier County, Tennessee · Not Lockesburg as this hall now · Not Little Rock as this seat
What De Queen is not — not Sevierville, not Little Rock, not Lockesburg as this hall now
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. De Queen is the seat.
- Not Sevier County, Tennessee. Not Sevierville. Not the Great Smoky Mountains as this oval.
- Not Paraclifta as the live hall. Not Lockesburg as the live hall.
- Not Horatio as this oval. Not Gillham as this oval.
- Not a city department as this Sheriff for the whole map unless the county still posts that contract. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.