St. Francis County, Arkansas
St. Francis County · Forrest City is the seat · not Forest City as a misspelling of this hall · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Forrest City kept the seat in 1874. Madison is a town now. This is not Missouri.
St. Francis County, Arkansas, was erected 13 October 1827 from Phillips and named for the St. Francis River. The seat wandered: Franklin 1827, Madison 1840, Mount Vernon 1855–1856, Madison again 1856–1874, Forrest City from 1874. Forrest City is the seat. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Hughes, Madison, Colt, Palestine, Wheatley, and Caldwell are towns in this county — they are not the hall. This is not St. Francis County, Missouri. That Missouri hall is a different state. Staff who paste Union, Missouri onto Izard, or treat Memphis as this oval, or file Little Rock as this hall, are on the wrong county.
Places include Forrest City, Hughes, Madison, Colt, Palestine, Wheatley, and Caldwell. 2020 census: 23,090. About 635 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 Izard — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — St. Francis County.
Eleven Justices on Crowley’s Ridge. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
St. Francis is a County Judge plus an eleven-member Quorum Court. They fund roads, Izard detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Forrest City Board of Directors is a city body. Hughes city government is a city body. The Missouri General Assembly sits in Jefferson City. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 313 South Izard Street, Forrest City, AR 72335 — 1971–1972 modern red brick with a square clock tower on the ridge. District Court sits behind that hall at 615 East Cross. County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate desks. Confirm live doors before you drive; the Sheriff’s site is the thickest official door at stfranciscountysheriff.org. County government also lists stfranciscountyar.gov. Memphis is Tennessee. 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.
Crowley’s Ridge, the St. Francis, I-40. Little Rock is the capital.
East Arkansas Delta, split north–south by Crowley’s Ridge. The St. Francis River and the L’Anguille subdivide the map. I-40 is a through highway — that interstate is not this hall. Memphis sits about forty miles east; Crittenden is the county between this hall and that river bridge. Cross is north — Wynne is that hall. Lee is south — Marianna is that hall. Monroe and Woodruff are west. Staff who paste Missouri onto Izard, or treat I-40 as this oval, or file East Arkansas Regional Unit as this Sheriff, are on the wrong county.
How a Forrest City public finds Izard Street and East Cross
Courthouse / County Clerk / Circuit Clerk: 313 South Izard Street, Forrest City, AR 72335. Sheriff HQ / Detention: 313 South Izard (Room 10; P.O. Box 1817) — non-emergency (870) 633-2611, office (870) 261-1795. District Court: 615 East Cross. Confirm live doors at stfranciscountysheriff.org before you drive. A student who only knows an I-40 interchange photograph, or a Missouri namesake, or a prison tower at Brickeys, has not found this campus.
One hundred ten beds on Izard. East Arkansas Regional Unit is ADC.
Crime in unincorporated St. Francis — Hughes remainder, Madison remainder, Palestine country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Forrest City is often Forrest City Police. Two 911 systems sit on this map: city calls route to Forrest City Police; county calls route to the jail. This Sheriff is not that city badge. ASA lists a 110-bed house for males and females at 313 South Izard. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not ADC. East Arkansas Regional Unit (Brickeys, near this county) is Arkansas Department of Corrections — state, not this Sheriff. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Missouri, to Brickeys, or to Memphis as this oval.
Civil process and court security at 313 South Izard are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at an I-40 interchange. Remedy for Forrest City Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the St. Francis rises is this count first.
What this Crowley’s Ridge county actually watches from Forrest City
Court calendars at 313 South Izard. A wreck on I-40. High water on the St. Francis or the L’Anguille. A night road toward Hughes. Coordination with Forrest City Police and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Cross’s Sheriff or Lee’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Wynne or Marianna as this hall. An I-40 photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Forrest City remains the hall.
Forrest City snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Forrest City · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + eleven Justices of the Peace · court 313 South Izard (1972) · District Court 615 East Cross · separate County Clerk and Circuit Clerk
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 313 South Izard · ASA 110-bed male and female
- Neighbors: Cross · Crittenden · Lee · Monroe · Woodruff
- Not St. Francis County, Missouri · Not East Arkansas Regional Unit as this jail · Not Forrest City PD as this oval
What Forrest City is not — not Missouri, not Brickeys as this jailer
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Forrest City is the seat.
- Not St. Francis County, Missouri.
- Not Forest City as a misspelling of this hall.
- Not East Arkansas Regional Unit. That house is ADC.
- Not Forrest City PD as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not Memphis as this oval. Crittenden sits between.
- Not a campaign flyer.