White

Formed October 23, 1835 (30^th county)

White County (76,822), Searcy (22,939)

A new Modern style courthouse was built in 2004 to replace the beautiful domed 1870 courthouse.  Split Architect Group designed the new courthouse located at East Booth at Queensway.  Arkansas Highway 367 is one block south of the site.  The old courthouse was designed by B. K. Rodgers and M. H. Baldwin.  Five courthouses have served White County since its formation on October 23, 1835 as the 30^th county.  All of these have been located in Searcy, the only county seat.  The county was formed from parts of Independence, Jackson, and Pulaski counties.  White County is named for Hugh L. White, Whig candidate for President.  The county seat was named for Richard Searcy, a prominent Arkansas Legislator.  He also provided his name to Searcy County. 

White County government consists of a sheriff, assessor, treasurer, and coroner (executive).  It has 13 Quorum Court members (legislative.)  Three Circuit Court Judges serve White and Prairie counties and Two District Court Judges, an Attorney, and a County Clerk serve White County (judicial.)  The county is located northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas and southwest of Jonesboro, Arkansas.  The White River forms its eastern border.  The county center is 5.4 miles North-Northwest of Searcy.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Independence, Jackson, Woodruff, Prairie, Lonoke, Faulkner, and Cleburne counties.  The county is overall rectangular with an extension going north and the wandering river on the east.  Searcy is slightly south of the center of the county.  Searcy is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 29.9% of the county population.  The county seat is pronounced SEER-CEE.  

The area of the county is 1042.4 square miles.  It is 2 of 75 in size.  It ranks 9 out of 75 in population in the state.  It has a density of 73.7 persons per square mile making it 14 out of 75 in the state.  White County has 53.6% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 64 goes from Woodruff County on the east to Faulkner County on the west.  United States Highway 67 crosses diagonally from northeast to southwest, Jackson County to Lonoke County (it is joined most of the way across the county with United States Highway 64).  United States Highway 167 enters from Independence County on the north, joins with United States Highway 67, and goes southwest into Lonoke County.  The county is in the Searcy Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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