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Johnson County
Johnson County Courthouse 215 West Main Street Clarksville, AR 72830
Justices of the Peace Herman H. Houston Larry Holben Jeanette Hemmer David Chronister
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Larry Plugge Bruce Phillips Steve Morgan Gene Raible
Ken Medeiros Harold Parker Keith Eichenberger
Johnson County was formed in November 1833 from Pope County and was named for Benjamin Johnson, one of Arkansas’ early jurists. Clarksville is the county seat, which was the location for the state’s first school for deaf children in 1851, the same site of today’s University of the Ozarks. The landscape is rugged terrain in the northern half and rolling farmlands, forested ridges, isolated mountains and lakes in the southern half. The entire northern half of Johnson County is in the Ozark National Forest that has two wildlife management areas. Little and Big Piney Creeks in the northeast corner and White Rock in the northwest offers hunting, fishing, canoeing, hiking and camping. The southern half of the county is river valley farm country where peaches, cattle, vegetables, soybeans and grains are grown. Diversified industry is scattered over the county. Johnson County has an annual Peach Festival that started back in 1936, that attracts visitors from all over the country. On the web www.arcounties.org
Mike Jacobs County Judge
Leta Willis
Treasurer and Tax Collector
Michelle Frost County Clerk
Jimmy Dorney Sheriff
Jane Houston Circuit Clerk
Don R. Hurst Assessor
Albert D. Davis Coroner
COUNTY LINES, SPRING 2012
