About Us

Jasper County is a first class county that has 641 square miles of territory with a population of 117,404.

There are 940 miles of County maintained roads, 348.8 miles of State and Federal maintained highways, and 548.29 miles of roadways inside cities of Jasper County.

Jasper County was established on January 29, 1841.

Governor Thomas Reynolds appointed John P. Osborn as Jasper County’s first Sheriff, who served from 1841 – 1846.

Carthage was chosen as the county seat on March 28, 1842.

This photo was taken in June 1958 when Jasper County Sheriff’s Deputies began wearing the “Officially recognized uniform of Missouri County law enforcement officers.” Pictured from left are, Chief Deputy Paul Archer, Deputy George Bastain, and Deputy Omer Casey. In 1958, these three men made up the Sheriff’s Office day shift.

List of Previous Sheriffs

1.	John P. Osborn	1841	1846
2.	Samual B. LaForce	1847	1850
3.	John Potts	1851	1852
4.	T. F. Thompson	1853	1856
5.	N. C. Hood	1857	1859
6.	Thomas J. Haskell	1860	1861
7.	Stephen M. Hood	1862	1864
8.	Charles C. Brown	1864	1864
9.	Edmond M. Burch	1864	1865
10.	S. H. Caldwell	1866	1868
11.	C. E. Spencer	1869	1872
12.	J. S. Zane	1873	1874
13.	U. Hendrickson	1875	1876
14.	J. C. Beamer	1877	1878
15.	J. S. McBride	1879	1880
16.	R. M. Roberts	1881	1884
17.	John C. Bailey	1885	1888
18.	Julius C. Miller	1889	1890
19.	James F. Purcell	1891	1894
20.	W. S. Crane	1895	1896
21.	W. H. Warren	1897	1900
22.	Albert Rich	1901	1902
23.	James T. Owen	1903	1904
24.	John A. Marrs (R)	1905	1906
25.	W. P. Parker	1907	1908
26.	Arch McDonald (R)	1909	1912
27.	C. E. Baker (D)	1913	1916
28.	Oll Rogers (D)	1917	1920
29.	Harry J. Mead (R)	1921	1924
30.	Guy T. Humes (R)	1925	1928
31.	Harry D. Stephens (R)	1929	1932
32.	Oll Rogers (D)	1933	1936
33.	Harry O. Rogers (D)	1937	1940
34.	George H. Tatum	1941	1944
35.	Russell Lamb (R)	1945	1946
36.	George Hickam (R)	1947	1972
37.	Joe Hart (R)	1973	1976
38.	Leland B. Boatright (R)	1977	1988
39.	W. J. Pierce (R)	1989	2003
40.	W. Archie Dunn (R)	2003	2012