page_title: Prairie County, Arkansas
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: Prairie County, Arkansas / Government
caption_attribution_description: English: 1939 structure built by WPA using materials salvaged from 1910 courthouse, listed in National Register of Historic Places on 4/20/1995 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 95000457
context_page_description: Prairie County is in the Central Arkansas region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The county is named for the Grand Prairie, a subregion of the Arkansas Delta known for rice cultivation and aquaculture that runs through the county. Created as Arkansas's 54th county in 1846, Prairie County is home to four incorporated towns, including DeValls Bluff, the southern district county seat, and two incorporated cities, including Des Arc, the northern district county seat. The county is also the site of numerous unincorporated communities and ghost towns. Occupying 676 square miles, Prairie County is the median-sized county in Arkansas. As of the 2010 Census, the county's population is 8,715 people in 4,503 households. Based on population, the county is the ninth-smallest county of the 75 in Arkansas.
  The county is crossed by Interstate 40, a major east–west Interstate highway running from California to North Carolina, as well as four United States highways. Eleven Arkansas state highways run in the county. Prairie County is served by two public owned/public use general aviation airports and six potable water systems.
context_section_description: The county government is a constitutional body granted specific powers by the Constitution of Arkansas and the Arkansas Code. The quorum court is the legislative branch of the county government and controls all spending and revenue collection. Representatives are called justices of the peace and are elected from county districts every even-numbered year. The number of districts in a county vary from nine to fifteen, and district boundaries are drawn by the county election commission. The Prairie County Quorum Court has nine members. Presiding over quorum court meetings is the county judge, who serves as the chief operating officer of the county. The county judge is elected at-large and does not vote in quorum court business, although capable of vetoing quorum court decisions.
caption: The Prairie County Courthouse in DeValls Bluff is the seat of county government in the southern district of the county
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