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Find the right office in Howard County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Court records
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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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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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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Current posting of fugitives and absconders in the state of Arkansas.
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How and where to request records from Arkansas FBI.
Open official site Federal Bureau of Investigation Little Rock OfficeCounty court
Search online calendar of pending active criminal cases.
Open official site Arkansas Judiciary Criminal Court Docket SearchPolice & jail
Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center for registered offenders by name or location.
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Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Arkansas Secretary of State.
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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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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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Find general info and check name availability with the Arkansas Secretary of State.
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Verify processional and state issued licenses to individuals and entities.
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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Howard County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in the unincorporated areas of Howard County. The sheriff's office may have specialized divisions such as a narcotics unit or a K-9 team, which focus on specific areas of law enforcement within Howard County.
Police Departments. In addition to Howard County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in Howard County is provided by municipal police departments, including the Nashville Police Department and the Dierks Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Howard County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Howard County, Arkansas. The Sheriff is an elected constitutional officer responsible for jail operations, civil process service, warrant execution, and general law enforcement duties. Howard County Detention Center, operated by the Sheriff's Office, houses pretrial detainees and sentenced misdemeanor offenders. Arrest records in Howard County are public records under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), codified at Arkansas Code Annotated § 25-19-101 et seq.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Howard County are maintained by Howard County Sheriff's Office.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Howard County are taken and retained by Howard County Sheriff's Office during the booking process.
For older records or certified copies for official purposes, the Arkansas Department of Health, Division of Vital Records (4815 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72205, phone 501-661-2336) is the primary custodian. Business licensing and registration in Howard County, Arkansas involves multiple levels of government. Howard County Clerk, located at 421 North Main Street in Nashville, AR 71852 (phone 870-845-7502), maintains records of fictitious name registrations (Doing Business As or DBA filings) for businesses operating under assumed names within Howard County.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 77 mine sites inside the county: 10 past producers, now closed, 25 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 2 sites producing when the record was made, 40 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 100 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Strontium; construction sand and gravel; Mercury.
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.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
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
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 29 investigations in Howard County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $194,772 in back wages agreed for 1,874 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.
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard County Children's Center, Inc | Nashville | 3 | $27,677 | 68 |
| Lua Inc | Nashville | 2 | $26,666 | 29 |
| R&J Supply Inc. | Nashville | 1 | $23,988 | 5 |
| Mission Plastics of Arkansas, Inc. | Nashville | 1 | $7,346 | 125 |
| R M B Enterprises, Inc. | Nashville | 1 | $5,313 | 57 |
| Precious Moments Childcare | Nashville | 2 | $2,491 | 8 |
| Auroba Enterprise Inc | Nashville | 1 | $584 | 3 |
| Paramount Shops LLC | Nashville | 6 | $562 | 6 |
| Tyson Foods, Inc. | Nashville | 9 | $0 | 3,527 |
| N & M Farm SERVICES, INC | Mineral Springs | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Howard County Ambulance Servive ALS | Nashville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Umpire Forestry Inc | Umpire | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Buttons & Bows Day Care | Nashville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Our Little Playschool, Inc | Dierks | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Mine Creek Healthcare Center LLC | Nashville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Little Wonders Academy | Nashville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| B & N Farm Service, Inc. | Mineral Springs | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Peterson Manufacturing | Nashville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Hostetler Roofing, LLC | Nashville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Howard County record, by back wages agreed; 6 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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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Howard County Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Howard 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.
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.
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.
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.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Howard County are kept by the Howard 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.
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.
Business entity filings are searched with the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services.
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