Woodruff County, Arkansas
Woodruff County · Augusta, Arkansas, is the seat · Augusta is also the large town · not Augusta, Maine · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Augusta, Arkansas, is this hall. Not Augusta, Maine. Not Jonesboro.
Woodruff County, Arkansas, was created 26 November 1862 (re-approved after the war) and named for William E. Woodruff, founder of the Arkansas Gazette. Association of Arkansas Counties: the Woodruff County Courthouse is in the county seat of Augusta. Augusta, Arkansas, is this hall. Augusta is also the large town on this thin map (2020 city about 1,998 of a 2020 county 6,269). It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. This is not Augusta, Maine. This is not Augusta, Georgia. Jonesboro is Craighead — not a suburb of that hall. Staff who paste a Maine waterfront onto Third Street, or treat McCrory as this oval, or file Cotton Plant as the live seat, or rewrite this county as Autauga-with-rice, are on the wrong county.
McCrory is a city — not the hall. Cotton Plant is a city — not the hall. Patterson and Hunter are municipalities — not the hall. Augusta, Maine, is a different state. Augusta, Georgia, is a different state.
Places include Augusta, McCrory, Cotton Plant, Patterson, Hunter, and the remainder. About 594 square miles of Delta. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a twenty-three-bed house this badge still holds on Third — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Woodruff County.
Nine Justices at Third. Combined Sheriff-Collector. They still do not hire the oval.
Woodruff is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court of Justices of the Peace (AAC listing; county Quorum Court page names nine). Amendment 55 made the Judge the executive and the Quorum Court the legislature. County Judge lists at 500 North Third Street, Augusta, AR 72006. They fund roads, the 1902 courthouse, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Augusta City Council is a city body. McCrory City Council is a city body. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. The Maine Legislature sits in Augusta, Maine. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The Woodruff County Courthouse lists at 500 North Third Street — AAC: 1902 Romanesque Revival, National Register, four-story clock tower, unusual for sitting in a residential neighborhood. County Clerk and Circuit Clerk are separate desks, both at 500 North Third. This Sheriff is also the Collector (AAC prints the same office as Sheriff and Collector; Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association marks Woodruff (C) combined). That is one person, two desks — still one Sheriff oval. Confirm live at woodruffcountyar.gov and arcounties.org/counties/woodruff.
The Sheriff is four years, Arkansas Constitution Article 7, § 46 as amended by 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). Primary runoff Tuesday, 31 March 2026 (already sat where needed). 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.
White River wall, Cache, Bayou DeView. McCrory is a city. Cotton Plant is not the hall.
East-central Arkansas Delta. The White River forms most of the western boundary. The Cache River bisects the county. Bayou DeView runs the east. U.S. 64 is a through road — that highway is not this hall. Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Rex Hancock Black Swamp, and Henry Gray Hurricane Lake Wildlife Management Area are land. Jackson is north — Newport is that hall. Cross is northeast — Wynne is that hall. St. Francis is southeast — Forrest City is that hall. Monroe is south — Clarendon is that hall. Prairie is southwest — Des Arc / DeValls Bluff are those dual seats. White is west — Searcy the city is that hall. Staff who paste Augusta, Maine, onto Third, or treat McCrory as this oval, or file Jonesboro as this government, or rewrite this as a Craighead suburb, are on the wrong county.
Southern court sessions once sat at Cotton Plant; McCrory once printed its own courthouse. AAC and the live county list the hall at Augusta. Do not invent a second Sheriff because a southern court once sat.
How an Augusta public finds 500 North Third
Courthouse / Judge / Clerk / Circuit Clerk / Assessor / Sheriff: 500 North Third Street, Augusta, AR 72006. Judge (870) 347-5206. Clerk (870) 347-2871. Sheriff / detention (870) 347-2583. Collector mailing P.O. Box 555. Confirm live at woodruffcountyar.gov and arcounties.org/counties/woodruff. A student who only knows a Maine postcard, or a Jonesboro photograph, or McCrory as the live court, has not found this campus.
Twenty-three beds on Third. McCrory Police do not hold this house.
Crime in unincorporated Woodruff — White River bottoms, Cache duck water, Cotton Plant remainder, U.S. 64 frontage — is this Sheriff. Crime in Augusta may be city police where that department actually posts. Crime in McCrory may be McCrory Police. This Sheriff is not those departments. ASA: Woodruff County Jail at 500 North 3rd Street; male and female; capacity about 23. That house is this badge’s shop (A.C.A. § 12-41-502). It is not a separate county Department of Corrections that retired this jailer.
Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Augusta, Maine, to Jonesboro, to McCrory City Hall as this oval, or to a White County Booth Road house as this jailer.
Civil process and court security at 500 North Third are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a White River bank. Remedy for McCrory Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the White River comes up is this count first.
What this Gazette-named county actually watches from Augusta
Court calendar on Third. A wreck on U.S. 64. Fog on the White River. Ice toward McCrory. High water on the Cache. Duck season on Bayou DeView is land use, not this oval. Coordination with Augusta PD, McCrory PD, ASP, and neighboring sheriffs without becoming those departments. Coordination with White’s Sheriff or Jackson’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. The river is geography. A Gazette masthead is history. Neither is Augusta, Maine, as this hall.
Augusta snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Augusta, Arkansas · also the large town · not the capital · Little Rock is the capital
- Not Augusta, Maine · Not Augusta, Georgia · Not Jonesboro / Craighead
- Government: nine-member Quorum Court · County Judge 500 North Third · Clerk and Circuit Clerk 500 North Third · court 500 North Third · Sheriff is also Collector
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ and jail 500 North 3rd — confirm live door · about 23 beds
- Neighbors: Jackson · Cross · St. Francis · Monroe · Prairie · White
- Not McCrory as this hall · Not Cotton Plant as the live seat · Not Autauga-with-rice
What Augusta, Arkansas, is not
- Not Augusta, Maine. Not Augusta, Georgia.
- Not Jonesboro. Jonesboro is Craighead.
- Not McCrory as the county government. Not Cotton Plant as the live hall. Not Patterson as the hall.
- Not Searcy. Searcy the city is White County.
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital, in Pulaski.
- Not Autauga-with-rice. Not a Gazette newsroom as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.