Arkansas sources & data layers

Every layer in districtry Arkansas, and exactly where its data comes from.

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This app is a reader over other people's data. It draws no boundary of its own and names no officeholder it cannot cite, so the useful question about any answer it gives is who published this, and when. That is what this page is for: the publishers the app credits as a whole, then one row per layer naming the source behind that layer specifically.

Not for legal or official use. Boundary and roster data come from public sources that explicitly disclaim legal precision. Always confirm district assignments and officeholders with the relevant government office before relying on them for anything official.

Data last verified: October 13, 2026

Where a source publishes nothing, the app says so rather than guessing — the missing-data panel on the map is the standing list of what nobody publishes yet, and what would close each gap.

This page says where each answer comes from today.

Who publishes the data

The upstream publishers this app depends on, across all layers. Per-layer provenance is in the matrix below.

The layer matrix

18 layers — 7 political and legislative, 3 public safety, 2 schools, 6 geography and amenities. Each row names the publisher the boundary comes from, where the names on the card come from, and the ground the layer actually answers on — outside that ground the layer hides itself rather than guessing.

Political & legislative 7 layers

Districts that elect somebody — from your ward to your seat in Congress.

LayerWhat it answersBoundary sourceWho it namesWhere it applies
U.S. Houseus-house The U.S. House district covering the point, and the representative holding it. congress-roster.json, rebuilt weekly by CI from the public-domain unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset — including each member's district office and Washington office. Arkansas — statewide, all 4 districts.
Court of Appeals Districtar-court-of-appeals The Court of Appeals district covering the point: the counties it is made of, and how many of the court's twelve judges its voters elect. No judge is named yet: the court's own pages name every judge, and this app does not publish them yet; recorded as gap ar-appeals-judges. The card says how many of the court's twelve judges the district elects and links the court's district page, which names them. Arkansas — statewide, all 75 counties.
Judicial Circuitar-circuit-court The judicial circuit covering the point: its circuit court, how many judges the circuit's voters elect, and whether a federal court order divides it into election subdistricts. No judge is named yet: the directory names every circuit judge, and this app does not publish them yet; recorded as gap ar-circuit-judges. The card gives the circuit's number of judges, from the directory, and links it. Arkansas — statewide, all 75 counties.
Arkansas Senate Districtar-senate The Arkansas Senate district covering the point, and the senator holding it. ar-senate-members.json, rebuilt weekly by CI from the Arkansas State Legislature's own member list and each member's own page (name, party, e-mail, the telephone the page prints, which may be the member's own, and the member's page; never the mailing address the page also prints). A member the Legislature's page marks as resigned or deceased is not carried, so a seat with no current member reads as vacant: Senate 1 and 18 on 2026-10-13. Arkansas — statewide, all 35 districts.
Arkansas House Districtar-house The Arkansas House district covering the point, and the representative holding it. ar-house-members.json, rebuilt weekly by CI from the Arkansas State Legislature's own pages on the same terms as the Senate roster; House 8 read vacant on 2026-10-13. Arkansas — statewide, all 100 districts.
Quorum Court Districtquorum-court The justice of the peace district covering the point, its county, the county judge who presides over the quorum court, and the district's justice where a source says who it is. ar-county-officials.json, read on 2026-10-13: each county judge from the Arkansas Judiciary's directory of county judges and clerks, and each county's justices of the peace from the Association of Arkansas Counties' page for that county. A district's justice is named from the county's own site where it numbers them (20 counties, measured 2026-10-13), and elsewhere from the association's 2024 general election results for justices of the peace, updated 17 December 2024, only while the association's current list for the county still includes that winner; a district whose winner has left, or cannot be matched, says so and names no one. Recorded as gap ar-quorum-court. Arkansas — statewide, all 75 counties, 775 districts.
City Council Districtcity-ward The city council ward or district containing the point, in the 12 Arkansas cities above 25,000 people that elect council members by ward, and the members its own voters elect. The members each ward's own voters elect, from the same city council roster the City or Town card reads (ar/data/app/ar-city-councils.json), written down from each city's own pages and proved against them by ar/scripts/build_ar_city_councils.py. Which seats a ward elects was measured from the ballot, and the builder's check holds every drawn ward to a seat its voters elect and every such seat to a drawn ward. The 12 Arkansas cities above 25,000 people that elect council members by ward: Benton, Conway, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Little Rock, North Little Rock, Paragould, Pine Bluff, Russellville, Sherwood and Texarkana. The state's map carries wards for 250 more cities and towns. Seven of them are the other cities above 25,000, which elect every seat by the whole city, so a ward there elects no one of its own; the rest are not drawn because this app does not name those councils.

Public safety 3 layers

Who answers a call at this address, and where they answer it from.

LayerWhat it answersBoundary sourceWho it namesWhere it applies
Fire Districtfire-district Every fire district the point is in on the Arkansas GIS Office's map, with the counties each serves, the date the map gives its lines and, for 90 districts, the record the GIS Office holds for them. Where the map labels ground rather than naming a district ("Unserviced" and three others), the card quotes the label. NO NAMES. The GIS Office's map names each fire district and the counties it serves but not who runs it, and no statewide list of who runs Arkansas's fire districts has been read, so the card names no one rather than guessing; recorded as gap ar-fire-district-boards. Arkansas — statewide. The districts overlap in places and leave less than 1% of the state in no district, so the card lists every district the map puts the point in.
Police Stationpolice-station The three nearest police stations to the point, by straight-line distance, with each one's address. NO OFFICEHOLDER, AND NONE IS MISSING: a police station is a facility, not an elected district. Nobody is elected from one. Arkansas — plus the border strip its envelope necessarily includes. A BUILDING, NOT A JURISDICTION: which agency answers at a given point is a service-area question this instance has not been researched for, so the card says where the nearest are and never who serves you. Nearest-three is a proximity fact, so for a reader near the state line the nearest one really may be in a neighbouring state, and the card's intro says these are straight-line distances.
Fire & EMS Stationfire-station The three nearest fire and EMS stations to the point, by straight-line distance, with each one's address. NO OFFICEHOLDER, AND NONE IS MISSING: a fire and EMS station is a facility, not an elected district. Nobody is elected from one. Arkansas — plus the border strip its envelope necessarily includes. A BUILDING, NOT A JURISDICTION: which agency answers at a given point is a service-area question, and the card says where the nearest are and never who serves you; the Fire District layer draws the state's map of fire districts. Nearest-three is a proximity fact, so for a reader near the state line the nearest one really may be in a neighbouring state, and the card's intro says these are straight-line distances.

Schools 2 layers

The district, the attendance zone, and the schools nearest the point.

LayerWhat it answersBoundary sourceWho it namesWhere it applies
School Districtschool-district-unified The public school district covering the point. NO OFFICEHOLDER, AND THE CARD NAMES THE DISTRICT ONLY. Arkansas's school boards are elected, and no statewide roster of their members has been established here; the state's school directory lists no board members. Recorded as gap ar-school-board-members. Arkansas — statewide. The label carries no qualifier because there is nothing to distinguish it from: the elementary and secondary tilings TIGERweb serves for other states are EMPTY in Arkansas (0 features each, measured 2026-10-13), and the 234 unified districts' Census land area sums to exactly the 75-county total (134,659 km2).
School Board Zoneschool-board-district The zone a school board elects a member from, and the school district whose board it is. Where a board has resolved to elect every member at large and is changing a seat at a time, the card says when it resolved. NO NAMES YET. No statewide list of Arkansas's school board members has been found — the Department of Education's report-card feed carries no board field — so the card names no one rather than guessing; recorded as gap ar-school-board-members. The 176 Arkansas school districts whose boards elect some or all members from zones. A board elected wholly at large has no zones, and the empty card says so.

Geography & amenities 6 layers

The boundaries that place an address without electing anyone, plus the nearest public services.

LayerWhat it answersBoundary sourceWho it namesWhere it applies
Countycounty Which county contains the point, its county judge, and the justices of the peace on its quorum court. ar-county-officials.json, read on 2026-10-13: the county judge from the Arkansas Judiciary's directory of county judges and clerks (with the office telephone, and the office address only where the Association of Arkansas Counties prints the same one), and the county's justices of the peace from the Association of Arkansas Counties' page for the county, listed as the association lists them, without a district; the Quorum Court District layer names each district's justice where a source says who it is. Recorded as gap ar-quorum-court. Arkansas — statewide, all 75 counties.
ZIP Codezip-code The ZIP Code Tabulation Area covering the point — the Census Bureau's areal approximation of the USPS delivery routes sharing a ZIP code, not a postal boundary. NO OFFICEHOLDER, AND NONE IS MISSING: a ZIP code is a mail-routing convenience, not a unit of government, so nobody is elected from one. The card says what the boundary actually is rather than leaving a reader to assume it means more. Arkansas. The layer is hidden outside the state outline, because outside it the Census's point query answers with a neighbouring state's real ZIP code (the Texas test point gives 75570).
Townshipcounty-subdivision The township containing the point, and its county. NO OFFICEHOLDER NAMED. A township has no government of its own, but its voters elect a constable for a two-year term (Arkansas Constitution, article 7, section 47). No source naming constables by township has been read, so the card says so and names nobody. Arkansas — statewide.
Voting Precinctvoting-precinct The voting precinct containing the point — where a reader votes and how their ballots are reported. NO OFFICEHOLDER, and none is missing. A precinct elects nobody — it is an election-administration unit, not a district with a representative — so the card says that rather than leaving a reader to wonder which name is absent. Arkansas — statewide.
City or Townmunicipality The city or town containing the point, if any. In the 19 cities above 25,000 people, the mayor and every council member or director, written down from each city's own pages and proved against those pages by ar/scripts/build_ar_city_councils.py, which fails when a name is no longer on the page it cites (ar/data/app/ar-city-councils.json, 174 seats read 2026-10-17). Where the page a seat cites prints an e-mail address or a telephone number beside that member alone, the card shows it, and the build proves it on that page in the same way; a line or mailbox the page gives the office or several members is not shown, and no street address is. Each seat says whether its ward's own voters or the whole city elect it, measured from the ballot because nothing the state publishes records it. The Arkansas Municipal League's statewide directory is not used: it gives no ward or position and disagreed with five of the twelve cities' own pages where both could be compared. Arkansas's other 482 cities and towns name nobody yet, recorded as gap ar-municipal-officeholders. Arkansas — statewide. A point outside every city and town is unincorporated, which the card states.
Post Officepost-office The three nearest post offices to the point, by straight-line distance, with each one's address. NO OFFICEHOLDER, AND NONE IS MISSING: a post office is a facility, not an elected district. Nobody is elected from one. Arkansas — plus the border strip its envelope necessarily includes. A BUILDING, NOT A JURISDICTION: which agency answers at a given point is a service-area question this instance has not been researched for, so the card says where the nearest are and never who serves you. Nearest-three is a proximity fact, so for a reader near the state line the nearest one really may be in a neighbouring state, and the card's intro says these are straight-line distances.