Perry

Formed December 18, 1840 (41^st county)

Perry County (10,021), Perryville (1,374)

The small white masonry 1888 courthouse overlooks the small city of Perryville.  The courthouse is at the intersection of Main and Plum streets.  Arkansas State Highway 10 is three blocks east of the site.  John E. Oliver designed this Colonial Revival style courthouse.  Perryville has been the only county seat.  The county and county seat derive their names from Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry.  Perry County was created on December 18, 1840 from Conway County as the 41^st county. 

Perry County government consists of a sheriff, assessor, treasurer, and coroner (executive).  It has 9 Quorum Court members (legislative.)  Seventeen Circuit Court Judges serve Perry and Pulaski counties and a District Court Judge, an Attorney, and a County Clerk serve Perry County (judicial.)  The county is situated just northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas in central Arkansas.  The Arkansas River makes up part of its eastern border.  The center of the county is 8.9 miles Southwest of Perryville nearer Cherry Hill.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Conway, Faulkner, Pulaski, Saline, Garland, and Yell counties.  The county is shaped like a revolver with a jagged western border and the wandering river for an eastern border.  Perryville is in the northeast part of the county.  Perryville is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 13.7% of the county population.  

The area of the county is 560.5 square miles.  It is 73 of 75 in size.  It ranks 62 out of 75 in population in the state.  It has a density of 17.9 persons per square mile making it 57 out of 75 in the state.  Perry County has 24.5% of its population in its incorporated areas.  There are no Interstates or United States Highways in the county.  The county is in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Perryville