Directory Sources That Actually Cover Jonesboro
Jonesboro sits inside Craighead County's Western District, so local directory work often crosses city, county, university, and state systems. A city staff listing may answer a department-contact question, while ARCountyData works more like an owner directory by parcel or taxpayer name. For older residents, the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library and the Genealogy Society of Craighead County carry the more useful trail.
| Directory | Who It Lists | Keeper | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Jonesboro staff directory | City staff, departments, boards, and committees | City of Jonesboro | Public web search by category, first name, or last name |
| Jonesboro School District directory | District staff and role entries | Jonesboro Public Schools | Public directory with pagination |
| Arkansas State University faculty and staff directory | A-State names, titles, departments, email, phone, and location | Arkansas State University | Public web directory |
| ARCountyData assessor and collector rolls | Property owners, taxpayers, parcels, tax years, and mailing clues | Craighead Assessor and Collector | Sponsored free public searches |
| Arkansas Secretary of State business search | Entities, fictitious names, registered agents, and RA cities | Arkansas Secretary of State | Public search portal |
| GSCCA and library local-history indexes | Obituaries, cemetery entries, marriage index material, city directory names | GSCCA and CCJPL | Public indexes, microfilm, and in-building databases |
Use the city or school directory for current official contacts, A-State for campus people, ARCountyData for owner and taxpayer clues, and library or GSCCA tools for family-history work. For access-law details, records fees, and official copy procedures, use the separate public records search page instead of treating these directories as certified record copies.
City of Jonesboro Staff Directory Search Fields
The City of Jonesboro staff directory is the most direct municipal people directory found in the research. It searches by category, first name, and last name. The category list is broad enough to cover elected and appointed spaces such as City Council, City Clerk, City Attorney, Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, Public Safety Committee, Public Works Committee, and department areas such as Code Enforcement, Engineering, Planning and Zoning, Police Department, Fire Department, Sanitation, Streets, and Purchasing.
| Category | Dropdown for Staff Directory plus departments, boards, committees, and city offices |
|---|---|
| First Name | Optional text field, with the city form allowing up to 30 characters |
| Last Name | Optional text field, also capped at 30 characters |
| Result Type | Department or category page with public phone and, where available, staff rows |
| Entry Fields | Name, title, email, phone, additional phone, and office address where the department publishes them |
Department lines in the research included City Clerk at 870-935-0305, Code Enforcement at 870-933-4658, Engineering at 870-932-2438, Planning and Zoning at 870-932-0406, and Police Department at 870-935-5562. If a person is not listed, the practical fallback is the department main line or a city FOIA request for an existing record with the name, date, department, or case number you already know.
Jonesboro School and A-State Directories
Education directories are a major Jonesboro source because the city has a large school district and Arkansas State University. The Jonesboro School District School Directory showed 801 constituents during inspection, with results displayed 10 per page. Entries can show names, departments, roles, and an email label. The sample result set in the research included roles such as Health Occupations, Special Education Teacher, 3rd Grade Teacher, Library Media Specialist, and Math Teacher.
Arkansas State University's faculty and staff directory is more structured for campus searches. Its visible columns include Name and Title, Department, Email, Phone, and Location. ASU-Newport also matters for Jonesboro because it has a campus at 5504 Krueger Drive, and its employee directory can be filtered by department and campus. Handle A-State and ASU-Newport separately from city or county lists because campus entries can include department and location fields that do not appear in a normal local government directory.
Property, Business, and License Directories for Jonesboro Names
Some public-record systems behave like people directories even though they were not built as address books. ARCountyData is the clearest example for Jonesboro. The Craighead County assessor roll can be searched by owner, address, parcel, or PPAN, while the collector side adds taxpayer and tax-year context. At inspection, the research recorded 57,500 parcels and assessor and collector data updated on July 10, 2026. Mailing address and situs address should be read separately because a taxpayer's mailing clue may point somewhere other than the land location.
The Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search adds a different kind of directory. It searches incorporations, cooperatives, banks, insurance companies, and other filings by entity name or fictitious name, registered agent, and registered-agent city. The trademark and fictitious-name search uses name, owner, and city, with at least one search term required.
The Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search is one of the assigned successful directory screenshots for this page.
Use this business directory when the person trail runs through a registered agent, fictitious name, business address, or local company rather than a household record. For occupational records, the research points to Arkansas Labor and Licensing rosters, the nursing primary-source verification portal, and board-specific lookups for fields such as contractors, real estate, medical, bar, and teacher credentials, with search fields varying by board.
Court and Recorder Indexes as Jonesboro Name Directories
Court and land-record indexes are not casual directories, but they can list people by role. Search ARCourts finds public case information by participant name or case number for courts using the Contexte Case Management System. Craighead District Court has a local date boundary: the legacy district-court search covers September 1994 through July 31, 2018 traffic and misdemeanor criminal records, while newer district civil, small-claims, traffic, and misdemeanor records moved to the statewide Search ARCourts system after August 1, 2018.
The Craighead Circuit Clerk is also ex-officio recorder, so grantor and grantee names, liens, mortgages, plats, surety bonds, judgments, and other instruments can form a name trail. Online coverage years for the recorder index were not verified in the research, so use the Jonesboro office at 511 S. Main St. #200, phone 870-933-4530, when the web route does not show enough. VoterView is different: it can confirm a known person's registration when the searcher has first name, last name, and date of birth, but it is not a browseable people directory.
CCJPL Databases and Obituary Directories
The Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library is the strongest local-history directory stop for Jonesboro. Its main branch is at 315 W. Oak Ave., Jonesboro, AR 72401, phone 870-935-5133. The library database page lists Ancestry Library and American Ancestors as in-building only, plus Fold3, HeritageQuest, Newspapers.com Jonesboro Collection, Newspapers.com Southeast Collection, and Sanborn Maps for Arkansas. Those resources help connect names to old addresses, military material, census entries, newspapers, and city blocks by year.
| Collection | Directory Value | Access Note |
|---|---|---|
| Jonesboro Sun Deaths and Obituaries Index | Names, dates, page numbers, and repeat article clues | 1896-current, with microfilm follow-up |
| Monette Weekly Sun index | Deaths and obituaries for nearby Craighead-area research | 1962-1968 |
| Marked Tree Gazette and Tribune indexes | Births, deaths, marriages, and anniversaries | Selected 1905-1939 entries |
| Sanborn Maps for Arkansas | Historic city blocks, building numbers, and address context | Searchable by city and year through library databases |
| Cemetery lists | Burial locations and family-cluster clues | Craighead cemeteries, Lake City Cemetery, Macey Cemetery, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Find a Grave, and Interment.net links |
The library's obituary route has a concrete insider limit: staff can send up to five obituaries per week by request at reference@libraryinjonesboro.org. For a source view, see the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library databases page captured for this directory build.
The library screenshot matters because many Jonesboro directory trails are not fully public-web searches. Some of the most useful older-name sources require a library visit, microfilm lookup, or database access from inside the building.
The 1906 Jonesboro City Directory Anchor
GSCCA verifies a 1906 Jonesboro City Directory transcription, compiled and published by Donham Directory Co. The research did not verify a complete run of later printed Jonesboro city directories online, so the honest anchor is the known 1906 transcription plus library and archive follow-up for any Polk-style or later local directory volumes.
| Verified directory year | 1906 Jonesboro City Directory |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Donham Directory Co. |
| Research use | Past residents, business entries, old address forms, and name spellings |
| Best companion source | Sanborn Maps for Arkansas, obituary indexes, marriage indexes, cemetery lists, and county records |
| Known gap | Complete printed city-directory year range was not verified online during research |
For a historic address question, pair the 1906 directory with Sanborn city maps, obituary entries, and Craighead County marriage or land records. For women and name changes, the research recommends combining County Clerk marriage records, divorce court records, obituaries, and city directories instead of relying on one spelling or one surname.
Current Phone Directories and What Jonesboro Does Not Have
The research did not locate an official current white-pages directory for Jonesboro. That gap matters. For current, source-backed directory work, use official staff directories, school and university lists, state directory tools, ARCountyData, business filings, professional rosters, and records indexes. For private congregation, civic-club, or alumni lists, assume they are not public unless archived or published by the organization. Use newspapers, obituaries, library collections, and historical society material for community context instead of treating private membership rosters as open public records.
The Arkansas Division of Correction inmate search was also captured as a successful directory-style state lookup. See the Arkansas inmate search portal for the source page.
This kind of state directory should be used narrowly for the record set it covers. It is not a replacement for local Jonesboro staff, property, school, business, or historical directory sources.