Union County, Arkansas
Union County · El Dorado, Arkansas is the seat · not Elizabeth · not El Dorado, Kansas · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
El Dorado, Arkansas, is the hall. El Dorado, Kansas, is a different state. Union County, New Jersey, is already unique.
Union County, Arkansas, was created 2 November 1829 and named for the Union. Encyclopedia of Arkansas: the first court sat at Champagnolle; the seat moved to El Dorado in 1843. Association of Arkansas Counties: El Dorado is the county seat. 2020 census: 39,054. About 1,039 square miles — one of the larger Arkansas counties. El Dorado is both the seat and the large city. Smackover is the oil town — not the hall. Norphlet, Junction City, Huttig, Strong, Calion, and Felsenthal are cities in this county — they are not the hall.
The live courthouse is the 1927–1928 Classical Revival limestone house at 101 North Washington Street, El Dorado, AR 71730, National Register 1983. AAC: Mann & Stern; forty freestanding Ionic columns; marble atrium; built after the 10 January 1921 Busey well remade the deed books. That oil boom is history on this map. It is not this Sheriff as a company. This is not Union County, New Jersey. That seat is Elizabeth, already unique SuperHeavy. This is not El Dorado, Kansas. Not El Dorado, California. Not El Dorado County, California. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas and sits in Pulaski County.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — south-Arkansas oil-country remainder patrol and the house at 250 American Road this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Union County.
Eleven justices at 101 North Washington. They do not sit in Elizabeth as this county.
Union is a County Judge plus an eleven-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at 101 North Washington, Suite 101. They fund roads, the 1928 hall, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. El Dorado City Council is a city body. Smackover is not this commission as the whole county. Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a different state.
County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate on the Washington Avenue campus. This county elects a separate Collector at Suite 106. Do not invent a combined Sheriff-Collector here. Confirm live at arcounties.org/counties/union and unioncountyar.com. 13th Judicial Circuit is the circuit, not a second sheriff.
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.
South Arkansas oil, pine, the Louisiana line. Camden is Ouachita.
Coastal plain: pine timber and the old oil field. U.S. 167 and U.S. 82 are through roads. Ouachita is north — Camden, Arkansas, is that hall. Calhoun is northeast — Hampton is that hall. Bradley is east. Ashley is southeast — Hamburg is that hall. Union Parish and Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, are south. Columbia is west — Magnolia is that hall. Staff who paste an Elizabeth, New Jersey, skyline onto Washington Avenue, or treat El Dorado, Kansas, as this oval, or file Camden as this seat, or file Little Rock as this hall, are on the wrong county.
How an El Dorado public finds Washington Avenue and American Road
County Judge / County Clerk / Circuit Clerk / Collector: 101 North Washington Street, El Dorado, AR 71730. Sheriff headquarters and Detention Center: 250 American Road, El Dorado, AR 71730 — office (870) 864-1970, dispatch (870) 864-1990. Confirm live doors at unioncountysheriff.net and unioncountyar.com before you drive. A student who only knows an Elizabeth photograph, or only a Kansas postcard, has not found El Dorado, Arkansas.
American Road still jails. El Dorado PD does not. Elizabeth, New Jersey, does not.
Crime in unincorporated Union — Smackover remainder, Norphlet remainder, Junction City remainder, Huttig, Strong, Calion, timber tracts, the Louisiana line — is this Sheriff. Crime in El Dorado is often El Dorado Police. This Sheriff is not that badge. Smackover Police is a city badge. The Sheriff’s own detention page: Union County Detention Center at 250 American Road, male and female, listed near 213 beds; ASA 215. Confirm live capacity on the door the county posts today. That house is this badge’s shop. Union County, New Jersey, does not jail here. Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, does not jail here. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Elizabeth, to El Dorado, Kansas, or to Smackover as this oval. No separate county Department of Corrections turned up — do not invent a jailer split. Civil process and courthouse security at 101 North Washington are the Sheriff. Rights do not change because a visitor photographed forty columns.
What the oil country actually watches
Court calendar on Washington Avenue. A wreck on U.S. 167. Fog on the pine flats. Ice toward Junction City. A south-Arkansas storm on the Louisiana line. Coordination with El Dorado Police, Smackover Police, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Ouachita’s Sheriff or Columbia’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. The 1921 gusher is history. It is not Elizabeth as this hall. It is not Little Rock as this seat.
El Dorado snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: El Dorado, Arkansas · the large city on this map · Capital of Arkansas: Little Rock · not here
- Government: eleven-member Quorum Court · County Judge 101 North Washington, Suite 101 · separate Clerk and Circuit Clerk · court 101 North Washington
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ/jail 250 American Road — confirm live capacity
- Neighbors: Ouachita · Calhoun · Bradley · Ashley · Union Parish LA · Claiborne Parish LA · Columbia
- Not Union County, New Jersey / Elizabeth · Not El Dorado, Kansas · Not El Dorado, California
What El Dorado is not
- Not Union County, New Jersey. Not Elizabeth. Not Union County, Mississippi / Kentucky / Ohio / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Pennsylvania / South Carolina / Tennessee / Oregon.
- Not El Dorado, Kansas. Not El Dorado, California. Not El Dorado County, California.
- Not Smackover as the county hall. Not Norphlet as the hall. Not Junction City as the hall.
- Not El Dorado Police as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Not Camden as this seat. Not Little Rock as this county government.
- Not a campaign flyer.