Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Iron County, Missouri, has about 9,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Iron County Sheriff's Office and five city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Iron County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Iron County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Iron County
The Iron County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Iron County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Iron County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Ironton, 1,443 residents: 10 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pilot Knob, 683 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Viburnum, 658 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Arcadia, 607 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Annapolis, 245 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Iron County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Ironton: 10 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 3 for 2022, 5 for 2021 and 66 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Pilot Knob: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 25 for 2020 and 7 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Annapolis: 0 for 2025 and 2 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Arcadia: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 7 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Viburnum: 0 for 2025, 5 for 2023 and 2 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Iron County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 13 for 2023, 15 for 2022, 3 for 2020 and 10 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11 arrests that year.
Through May 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 4 arrests, against 2 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Iron County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Iron County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 10 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 19 beds, and it ran at 53 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Iron County Sheriff's Office at ironcountymo.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Iron County, Missouri), phone (573) 546-7051, 220 South Shepherd Street Ironton, MO 63650, Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Missouri Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Iron County
Whether someone was arrested in Iron County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at ironcountymo.gov/prosecuting-attorney, phone (573) 546-2333).
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Iron County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Iron County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (573) 546-7051.
- An arrest in Ironton, Pilot Knob, Viburnum, Arcadia or Annapolis: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (573) 546-2333, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Iron County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Iron County: Ironton, Pilot Knob, Viburnum, Arcadia and Annapolis. Des Arc has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Iron County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Iron County each year?
Ironton reported 10 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 11 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Iron County?
Ask the Iron County Sheriff's Office at (573) 546-7051; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at ironcountymo.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Iron County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Iron County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Iron County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Iron County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Iron County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Iron County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.