Pike County (Arkansas) Veterans Service Office

What it is. An Arkansas county veterans service officer is employed by the county judge and paid from the Quorum Court's budget, trained and accredited through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and partly reimbursed by the State under section 20-81-106: one dollar for every two the county spends, up to $3,600 a year, or $4,800 in a county with more than 2,500 veterans, plus $500 a quarter each for VA accreditation and for access to VA's benefits system; see the Arkansas entry on the Department and county service officers. Help with a claim is free. Who and when. The Department of Veterans Affairs' county finder (last updated August 19, 2026) lists Robert Williams at 100 Court St., Ste. C (P.O. Box 1031), Murfreesboro, AR 71958, (870) 285-2249, [email protected], Tuesday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The county's site lists its elected officials but has no veterans page. Pike is in the Department's District 4, whose District Veterans Service Officer is Eric Siddons in the Fort Smith courthouse, (479) 966-5295. The County Judge, Eddie Howard, is at P.O. Box 239, Murfreesboro, (870) 285-2414, [email protected]. The Quorum Court. No minutes or budget are posted, so the office's appropriation is not published. The veterans court. None: the Ninth West Circuit's plan for 2026 says its only specialty docket is a drug court, and the Judiciary's veterans treatment court map does not shade Pike.