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Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts

Phone contacts for the divisions of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, with links to Search ARCourts case records, circuit clerk and judge directories, and self help resources.

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Arkansas Unclaimed Property

Claim It Arkansas is the unclaimed property program of the Arkansas Auditor of State, which collects money reported by banks, businesses and agencies and returns it to owners who file a claim.

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Arkansas Sex Offender Registry Search

Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center sex offender registry by address, city, county, zip code or name, and sign up for notices when an offender moves near an address.

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Arkansas Sex Offenders

Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center for registered offenders by name or location.

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Arkansas Attorney General

The Arkansas Attorney General is the state's lawyer and chief law enforcement officer, issuing legal opinions and handling consumer and robocall complaints. Court records are kept by the Arkansas Judiciary and county circuit clerks.

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Arkansas State Police

Apply for or renew an Arkansas concealed handgun carry license and check its status, and find State Police services such as highway safety programs and criminal background checks.

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Dallas County at a glance

State
Arkansas
County seat
Fordyce
Population
6,482
Area
668 sq mi
Founded
1845
Cities and towns
4

Dallas County offices and records

Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Dallas County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Dallas County.

Police Departments. In addition to Dallas County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in Dallas County includes the Fordyce Police Department and the Sparkman Police Department.

Law Enforcement & Arrests. Dallas County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 206 West 3rd Street in Fordyce, Arkansas 71742, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Dallas County and provides detention services through Dallas County Detention Center. Arrest records in Dallas County are considered public records under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), codified at Arkansas Code Annotated § 25-19-101 et seq.

Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.

Abandoned mine records

Old mine workings in Dallas County

Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.

From the old mine records

What is on record in Dallas County

Old mine sites
9
Sites with no status in the records
44
Past producers, now closed
9
Producing when recorded
4
Main minerals
Clay; construction sand and gravel; Silica
Holes drawn on the old survey maps
67
Shafts and tunnels
0
What they are
gravel pit
Maps surveyed
1965 to 1973
Records behind them
147 records for 124 sites, the rest are the same working written down more than once

Is an old working under a property here?

The mine records hold 57 mine sites inside the county: 9 past producers, now closed, 4 sites producing when the record was made, 44 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 67 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Clay; construction sand and gravel; Silica.

A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area.

Fordyce Ivan Sparkman Carthage Princeton N 10 miles
Dallas County: the boundary from the Census Bureau, and one dot for each old mine or hole on record inside it. The purple dots come off the old survey maps and the darkest of those are shafts and tunnels; the red, green and orange ones are mine records. The small open circles with a name are the towns and the pale shapes around the edge are the neighbouring counties, both from the Census Bureau. Hover a dot for its name.
Arkansas mine map and abandoned mine records
Named workings recorded in Dallas County (57 shown, 67 unnamed on the map)

Dallas County sits over the Texas Region coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this county. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Arkansas DEQ Coal Program (abandoned coal mine reclamation) and linked below.

Arkansas abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.

Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.

Labor Department file

Wage and hour cases in Dallas County

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 24 investigations in Dallas County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $67,590 in back wages agreed for 132 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.

Investigations closed
24
Back wages agreed
$67,590
Workers due back wages
132
Civil money penalties
$27,794
Employers on the record
22
EmployerCityCasesBack wagesWorkers
Sparkman Learning Center, Inc.Sparkman2$32,34820
Retzer GroupFordyce3$10,32096
Bailey's Super Store, Inc.Fordyce1$9,3776
Bailey's Fast Cash, Inc., et alFordyce1$7,40425
Dollar General CorporationFordyce2$5,7195
Garland-Gaston Lumber Co. Inc.Sparkman1$5,3721
Central Ambulance and Medical Sercives Inc.Fordyce1$4,9435
Bailey's Enterprises, Inc.Fordyce1$3,61246
Bailey's Superstore, Inc.Fordyce1$75212
Kids R Us Childcare & Learning CenterFordyce1$2705
Scott McClellanFordyce1$08
Larry W. Robinson Logging, Inc.Fordyce1$00
Shiva INVESTMENTS, LLCFordyce1$00
Fordyce Police DepartmentFordyce1$00
St. John's Place of Arkansas, LLCFordyce1$00
Quinton Ledbetter Construction Company Inc.Fordyce1$00
Sisson Welding and Construction CompanyFordyce1$00
Allstate of Arkansas RoofingFordyce1$00
Jubilee Alliance LLCFordyce1$00
Koch Industries, IncFordyce1$00
Titan Marine LLCFordyce1$00
Round Table CoffeeFordyce1$00

Every employer on the Dallas County record, by back wages agreed; 5 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Arkansas wage theft records page ranks the whole state.

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Where can I find mugshots or booking photos in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Dallas County Sheriff or a city police department in Dallas County. Ask that agency for its record. Under Arkansas Code 4-75-102 (Act 450 of 2021), a person may ask a publish for pay website in writing to remove his or her booking photograph; the site must remove it within five business days and may not charge a fee for removal.

How do I get a criminal background check in Dallas County, Arkansas?

The Arkansas criminal history record comes from the Arkansas State Police. Online search through the Arkansas State Police systems on ark.org: Criminal Background Checks with consent or legal mandate, or Open Criminal History for any other purpose. Fee: $22 per search for checks mandated by law or with the subject's signed consent; $24 per search on the Open Criminal History system for other personal searches.

How can I look up sex offenders in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Search the Arkansas Sex Offender Registry (Arkansas Crime Information Center), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.

How do I register to vote in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Register with the county clerk or through the Arkansas Secretary of State. Arkansas has no online voter registration. Submit the application to a voter registration agency or mail it no later than 30 days before the election; the postmark counts as the submission date.

How do I look up property records in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Deeds and other recorded land documents in Dallas County are kept by the Dallas County Circuit Clerk, as ex officio county recorder. Property values are set by the County Assessor, and tax bills come from the County Collector. Source: official state page.

How do I get a birth or death certificate in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Certified birth and death certificates for Arkansas come from the Arkansas Department of Health, Vital Records. The Department of Health offers vital records services in every county through its Local Health Units, which take walk in birth certificate requests. Online through vitalrecords.egov.com, by phone toll free at (866) 209-9482, by mail to Vital Records, Slot 44, 4815 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72205, or in person at a Local Health Unit or the Little Rock office. Fee: $12 for the first copy of a birth record and $10 for each additional copy of the same record ordered at the same time.

How do I find business license records in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Business entity filings are searched with the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services.

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Cities, towns and neighboring counties

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