Yell County, Arkansas
Yell County · two seats: Danville and Dardanelle · Danville is this Sheriff hall · Dardanelle is the large city · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Two seats. Danville is this Sheriff hall. Dardanelle is the large city. Little Rock is the capital.
Yell County, Arkansas, was created 5 December 1840 from parts of Pope and Scott and named for Archibald Yell, second governor of Arkansas. Association of Arkansas Counties: the county has dual seats — Danville and Dardanelle. Two judicial districts. One Sheriff. AAC and the county list the Sheriff at 201 East 5th Street, Danville, AR 72833. Danville is this Sheriff hall. Dardanelle is the large city and the northern / eastern court at 106 Union Street. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Yellville is Marion County — a different county. Staff who paste a Dardanelle riverfront onto this Sheriff as the hall, or treat Russellville as this government, or file Yellville as this oval, or rewrite this county as Autauga-with-a-river, are on the wrong county.
Dardanelle is a city — not this Sheriff hall. Ola, Belleville, Havana, Plainview, and Corinth are municipalities — not the hall. Russellville is Pope. Lake Dardanelle sits on the Arkansas River — water, not this oval.
Places include Danville, Dardanelle, Ola, Belleville, Havana, Plainview, and the remainder. 2020 census: 20,263. About 949 square miles. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — two-district remainder patrol and a house this badge still holds in Danville — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Yell County.
Eleven Justices. Combined Clerk. They fund both courthouses. They do not hire this Sheriff.
Yell is a County Judge plus an eleven-member Quorum Court of Justices of the Peace (AAC listing). Amendment 55 made the Judge the executive and the Quorum Court the legislature. County Judge lists at 101 East 5th Street, Danville, with a Dardanelle phone at the Union Street court. They fund roads, both courthouses, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Danville City Council is a city body. Dardanelle City Council is a city body. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
AAC: County Clerk / Circuit Clerk combined — mailing 101 East 5th Street, Danville, with a Dardanelle phone. Collector is a different desk from this Sheriff. Do not invent a combined Sheriff-Collector here. Confirm live at yellcountyar.gov and arcounties.org/counties/yell.
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. Two courthouses do not mean two sheriffs.
Arkansas River, Lake Dardanelle, Ouachita forest. Russellville is Pope. Mount Magazine is a park.
West-central Arkansas. Arkansas River Valley north; Ouachita ridges south. Lake Dardanelle, Nimrod Lake, and Blue Mountain Lake sit on this map. Highway 7 and Highway 10 are through roads — those highways are not this hall. Mount Nebo State Park and Mount Magazine State Park are parks. Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, Ouachita National Forest, and Ozark National Forest touch this county. Pope is north — Russellville is that hall. Conway County is northeast — Morrilton is that hall. Perry is east — Perryville is that hall. Garland is southeast — Hot Springs is that hall. Montgomery is south — Mount Ida is that hall. Scott is west — Waldron is that hall. Logan is northwest — Paris is that Sheriff hall; Booneville is the southern court. Staff who paste a Dardanelle lock-and-dam onto this Sheriff as the hall, or treat Russellville as this government, or file Yellville as this seat, are on the wrong county.
How a Yell public finds Fifth Street and Union Street
Southern court / Judge mailing / combined Clerk: 101 East 5th Street, Danville, AR 72833 — Judge Danville (479) 495-4860, Dardanelle (479) 229-4858. Northern court: 106 Union Street, Dardanelle, AR 72834. Sheriff: 201 East 5th Street, Danville, AR 72833 — (479) 495-4881. Confirm live at yellcountyar.gov and yellcountysheriff.org. A student who only knows a Dardanelle riverfront postcard as this Sheriff, or a Russellville photograph, or Yellville as this county, has not found this campus.
Eighty-two beds this Sheriff still holds. Danville PD does not. Dardanelle PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Yell — remainder around Dardanelle, Ola, Belleville, Havana, forest roads, Highway 7 frontage — is this Sheriff. Crime in Danville is often Danville Police. Crime in Dardanelle is often Dardanelle Police. Ola and Plainview Police are city badges where those departments actually post. This Sheriff is not those departments. County site: this Sheriff holds the county jail and a Juvenile Detention Center. ASA: male and female; capacity about 82; jail phone (479) 495-4880. Juvenile Detention lists on East 4th Street, Danville. An older write-up still prints a 1976 house behind the Dardanelle courthouse and aggregator pages still list 106 Union. Confirm the live booking door on the Sheriff’s own page before you travel. Do not treat Union Street as the default house. 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 Dardanelle PD, to Russellville, to Yellville, or to Little Rock as this jailer.
Civil process and court security at both courthouses are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a district line. Remedy for Dardanelle Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Arkansas River comes up is this count first.
What this two-district county actually watches from Danville
Court calendar on Fifth. Court calendar on Union. A wreck on Highway 7. Fog on Lake Dardanelle. Ice toward Ola. High water on the Arkansas River. Coordination with Danville PD, Dardanelle PD, ASP, and neighboring sheriffs without becoming those departments. Coordination with Pope’s Sheriff or Logan’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. The river is geography. Mount Magazine is a park. Neither is Dardanelle PD as this oval. Neither is Russellville as this hall.
Danville / Dardanelle snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seats: Danville and Dardanelle · two judicial districts · one Sheriff
- Sheriff hall: 201 East 5th, Danville · Dardanelle is the large city, not this hall
- Not the capital · Little Rock is the capital
- Government: eleven-member Quorum Court · Judge mailing 101 East 5th, Danville · northern court 106 Union, Dardanelle · combined Clerk / Circuit Clerk
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · HQ 201 East 5th, Danville · detention this Sheriff still holds (ASA about 82) — confirm live door
- Neighbors: Pope · Conway · Perry · Garland · Montgomery · Scott · Logan
- Not Yellville / Marion · Not Russellville / Pope · Not Autauga-with-a-river
What Danville is not, as this county
- Not Dardanelle as this Sheriff hall. Dardanelle is the large city and the northern court.
- Not Yellville. Yellville is Marion County.
- Not Russellville. Russellville is Pope.
- Not two sheriffs because two courthouses.
- Not Danville Police as this Sheriff. Not Dardanelle Police. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital, in Pulaski.
- Not Autauga-with-a-river. Not Logan-with-a-lake.
- Not a campaign flyer.