Johnston County, Oklahoma

Anyone arrested in Johnston County is booked into the Johnston County Jail, the sheriff’s detention center at 110 North Capital Avenue in Tishomingo. The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office runs the lockup itself, taking in people brought by its own deputies, the Tishomingo Police Department, and the small-town marshals scattered across this corner of south-central Oklahoma, and holds them until they post bond, see a judge, or are handed to state custody. Each arrest enters the public file under the person’s name, the alleged offenses, and the day they were jailed, and that information can be checked through the sheriff’s online inmate roster, the no-cost statewide Oklahoma VINE service, or a phone call to the jail. To scan the county’s recent local bookings, open the Johnston County mugshots grid.

About Johnston County

Johnston County lies in the spring-fed, rolling country of south-central Oklahoma, where the Arbuckle foothills slope down to the Blue and Washita rivers and an arm of Lake Texoma pushes up from the south. Only about 10,300 people live here, most of them in Tishomingo, the county seat, with the rest spread among Mill Creek, Mannsville, Ravia, Milburn, Wapanucka, and Bromide. The ground holds a story older than the state itself: the Chickasaw Nation made Tishomingo its capital in the 1850s, and the Victorian-gothic Chickasaw National Capitol, dedicated in 1898, served the tribal government through the nation’s final years of self-rule before Oklahoma statehood—the same era the county was organized, in 1907, and given the name of Chickasaw governor Douglas H. Johnston. Cotton once ruled the bottomlands here, but ranching and hay ground carry the rural economy now, alongside the Chickasaw Nation, Murray State College in Tishomingo, and a steady stream of visitors heading for the trout-stocked Blue River and the Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge along the lake. Cases from other parts of Oklahoma sit a click away: the Oklahoma City–area county of Cleveland County lies to the north, and the statewide rollup lives on the Oklahoma state page.