Cross County Property Tax Calculator
Rate basis: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), issued March 2026.
How Cross County property taxes are calculated
Cross County's tax structure is the simplest in this batch on the city side: four cities levy tax, and the highest of them, Wynne, charges 5 mills. Almost all of the variation between Cross County bills therefore sits on the school line, where the Earle district's 54.8 mills tower over the Cross County district's 35. The sequence is the same everywhere in Arkansas: 20% of market value becomes assessed value, the district's mills are applied to it, and a credit comes off if the home is a qualifying homestead.
Work through a $118,000 home in Wynne city, where the published combined rate is 54 mills for 2026 collections:
- $118,000 market value times 20% equals $23,600 assessed value.
- $23,600 times 54 divided by 1,000 equals $1,274.40 tax before credit.
- Subtract the $600 homestead credit to reach $674.40 estimated annual tax.
Now place the same house a few miles out in the rural tier of the Cross County district, the cheapest line in the county at 44.1 mills. Tax before credit falls to $1,040.76, or $440.76 after the credit. That is $233.64 a year on a house that did not change, decided by a school district boundary.
Cross County millage rates by district and city
These are the taxing combinations the Arkansas DFA published for Cross County for 2026 collections, and each school, city and county column reconciles to its overall total. Cross County has seven combinations in all, the fewest of any county in this batch, because only three districts and four cities appear. The county levy is a flat 9.1 mills on every line.
| School district | City or area | School | City | County | Overall |
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| Cross County District | Rural | 35 | 0 | 9.1 | 44.1 |
| Cross County District | Cherry Valley | 35 | 4.75 | 9.1 | 48.85 |
| Cross County District | Hickory Ridge | 35 | 3.8 | 9.1 | 47.9 |
| Wynne #9 | Rural | 39.9 | 0 | 9.1 | 49 |
| Wynne #9 | Parkin | 39.9 | 3 | 9.1 | 52 |
| Wynne #9 | Wynne | 39.9 | 5 | 9.1 | 54 |
| Earle | Rural | 54.8 | 0 | 9.1 | 63.9 |
| County average | 39.93 | 4.14 | 9.1 | 51.39 |
Cross County rows taken from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. The Earle district appears in Cross County as a single rural line because its city tiers sit on the Crittenden County side of the boundary.
What sets one Cross County bill apart from another
Nineteen and eight tenths mills separate the cheapest and dearest Cross County address, and the school line owns nearly all of it. On a $118,000 home, the gap between the Cross County district's rural tier and the Earle district's rural tier is $467 a year before any credit.
- The Cross County district's rural tier is the floor at 44.1 mills. That district carries 35 school mills, the lightest in the county, and the rural tier adds only the flat 9.1 mill county levy. Unincorporated Cross County land is where the cheapest bills are.
- The Earle district's rural tier is the ceiling at 63.9 mills. Earle levies 54.8 school mills, more than 19 mills above the Cross County district, and the difference is almost entirely debt service: the state breakdown shows 29.8 mills of the Earle district's total sits in the school bond line against 10 mills in the Cross County district. Earle reaches into Cross County from Crittenden County.
- Cherry Valley levies the highest city rate in Cross County at 4.75 mills. Its 4.75 mill city general levy is split between city general and a fire line in the state breakdown, and it pushes a Cherry Valley address to 48.85 mills, which is still below the county average because the Cross County district's school levy is so light.
- Hickory Ridge is the only Cross County city with a two part city levy. Its 3.8 mills divide into 3.1 mills of city general and 0.7 mills of city fire, and it produces a 47.9 mill total.
- Wynne city pays 54 mills, the highest city combination in the county. Wynne levies a flat 5 mills and sits inside the Wynne #9 district at 39.9 school mills, so a Wynne address carries 5.28 mills above the Cross County average. Parkin, in the same district, pays 52 mills on a 3 mill city levy.
There is one consolidation history worth knowing, because it explains why Parkin residents see a Wynne school on their ballot: Parkin #14 consolidated into Wynne #9. The state report also records that the Cross County district fringes into Poinsett and Woodruff counties, that Wynne #9 fringes into Woodruff, and that Earle crosses in from Crittenden.
Wynne, Parkin, Cherry Valley and Hickory Ridge
Wynne
Wynne is the county seat and by far the largest city, and it is where every county office sits: the assessor and collector are both in the courthouse at 705 Union Avenue East, on opposite sides of the lobby. A Wynne city address pays 54 mills, the highest combination available to a Cross County city resident, because Wynne levies the county's maximum 5 mill city rate inside the second heaviest school district.
Parkin
Parkin sits northeast of Wynne along the St. Francis River and is home to Parkin Archeological State Park. A Parkin address pays 52 mills, made up of the same 39.9 school mills and 9.1 county mills that Wynne uses, with a 3 mill city levy instead of 5. That 2 mill difference is worth $47.20 a year on a $118,000 home.
Cherry Valley
Cherry Valley lies west of Wynne and pays 48.85 mills, the second lowest city combination in Cross County. Its city levy of 4.75 mills is the highest city rate in the county, but the city sits inside the Cross County district, whose school levy is 16.8 mills lighter than Wynne #9's. That is why a Cherry Valley address still comes in about 2.5 mills below the county average.
Hickory Ridge
Hickory Ridge, north of Cherry Valley, pays 47.9 mills, the cheapest city address in Cross County. It combines a 3.8 mill city levy with the Cross County district's 35 school mills, and it is one of only two Cross County cities that split their levy between general and fire lines.
Unincorporated Cross County
Outside the four cities, three rural tiers apply. The Cross County district's rural tier at 44.1 mills is the cheapest rate anywhere in the county. The Wynne #9 rural tier sits at 49 mills, and the Earle district's rural tier at 63.9 mills is the most expensive. Because the Earle district covers a slice of eastern Cross County, there are rural parcels here whose school tax is nearly 20 mills heavier than their neighbours'.
Cross County Assessor
Official name: Cross County Assessor's Office. Assessor: Sherri Williams. The office appraises and assesses all real property between the first Monday in January and July 1, and personal property between January 1 and May 31, and it handles homestead applications, the senior and disabled freeze, and appeal intake.
Cross County has two rules that generate most of the questions at this counter. Personal property assessed after May 31 draws a 10% late assessment fee, and real estate is assessed automatically each year unless you are adding a mobile home, in which case you must bring the specifics to the office. The county also notes that it can email your current personal property assessment on request, which is the fastest way to get a copy for a lender or an insurer.
Sources: Cross County Assessor and Cross County officials contact information. DFA's reappraisal schedule places Cross County on a five-year cycle with a 2025 appraisal year, and records ACT as the county's appraisal contractor.
Cross County Collector
Official name: Cross County Tax Collector's Office. Collector: Kristy Davis. The office prepares the county's tax books and collects municipal, county, school, library and improvement district taxes, remitting them to the county treasurer monthly.
Cross County publishes a more detailed payment policy than most counties in this batch. Accepted methods are cash, money order, cashier's check, personal check on current taxes only, and credit or debit cards. Partial payments on current taxes are allowed, described by the county as similar to a lay-away plan, and there is a drop box on the curb in the east parking lot that is checked daily. Personal checks are not accepted on delinquent taxes. The collector also states that statements go out around the first of March to the last address on file, and that it is the owner's responsibility to report a move.
Source: Cross County Tax Collector's Office.
How to find a Cross County parcel and its exact tax
Cross County uses actDataScout for both halves of the record, and the county links the same platform from three different pages, which can make it look like there are three systems when there is only one. The assessor's real estate inquiry and the collector's tax records both live there.
- Open the Cross County real estate inquiry on actDataScout. Search by name, address or parcel number.
- Read market value and assessed value. Assessed value should be 20% of market value unless an Amendment 79 cap or a senior freeze is holding it lower.
- Note the school district and the city. With only seven combinations in the county, identifying those two fields narrows you to one row of the millage table above almost immediately.
- Move to the tax records search to confirm the current bill, prior years and any receipt.
- To pay, use the county's payment link on the same platform, or call the collector at (870) 238-5710 if the parcel does not appear.
One Cross County caution. The county's own tax rates page still shows a rate table labelled "Assessed in 2022 and Collected in 2023" with a top rate of 64.3 mills. That table is four collection years old and does not match the 2026 figures on this page. Use it for explanation, not for numbers, and treat the Arkansas DFA millage report as the current source. The state report's district figures also name a "Vanndale" and "Twist" area that appears in the county's older page but not in the 2026 state table.
Sources: Cross County assess and pay page and Cross County tax rates page (2023 collections, retained for reference only).
Paying Cross County property taxes
Cross County's statements go out around the first of March, taxes are due from March 1, and they become delinquent after October 15. The county runs an unusually flexible payment counter for a rural county, and it is worth knowing about the partial payment option before assuming a bill has to be paid in one go.
Routes the collector documents
- Online: current taxes are paid through the county's actDataScout payment link, which also handles tax record search and receipt printing.
- In person: 705 Union Ave E, Room 10, Wynne, on the south end of the courthouse lobby, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. The office does not close over the noon hour.
- By mail: to the Wynne address, with cash, money order, cashier's check or a personal check for current taxes.
- Drop box: on the curb in the east parking lot, checked daily.
- Partial payments: accepted on current taxes. The county describes them as working like a lay-away plan, with the balance due by the October 15 deadline.
Two limits apply. Personal checks are not accepted on delinquent taxes, and Arkansas requires current personal property tax to be cleared before or at the same time as real estate, so a vehicle balance will block a property payment. Card payments carry a processing fee that goes to the card company rather than the county, and Cross County does not publish the amount, so ask at the counter. The statewide rules are in Arkansas property tax due dates.
Source: Cross County Tax Collector's Office.
Homestead credit in Cross County
Cross County residents file the homestead credit with the assessor's office in the courthouse at 705 Union Avenue East in Wynne. The county's own assessor page describes the process plainly: complete a form obtained from that office, and once the credit is applied you do not reapply unless you buy a new home or move.
One conflict to flag. The Cross County assessor's page states that a homeowner may be eligible for up to $425 and that all homesteads must be applied for by October 10. Both parts are stale. The $425 figure is two increases out of date: a 2026 bill carries a maximum credit of $600 under Act 330 of 2025, and from 2027 bills the ceiling rises to $675 under HB1103, which became Act 174 of 2026 and amended Ark. Code 26-26-1118(a)(1)(A). The calculator on this page models a 2026 bill and uses $600. On the date, the state rule ties filing to the assessment year rather than to a fixed October day, so treat October 10 on the county page as the county's own administrative cutoff and confirm with the assessor before relying on it.
Cross County also administers the senior and disabled value freeze. The county notes two limits that owners sometimes miss: agricultural land, timber and pasture are excluded from the freeze, and a millage increase or a substantial improvement can still raise the tax even when the value is frozen. Filing help is in how to apply for the Arkansas homestead credit and the Arkansas senior property tax freeze.
Sources: Cross County Assessor (homestead and freeze) and Arkansas DFA property tax relief.
Appealing a Cross County assessment
Cross County publishes its appeal deadline on the assessor's page, which most counties in this batch do not. The board here is called the Cross County Equalization Board, and the five members are named publicly: Janet Beck, Anthony Blake, Terry Imboden, Robert Meyer and John Smith.
- Filing route: to the Equalization Board through the county clerk's office, which acts as board secretary under Arkansas law. The county's own page frames it as filing an appeal with the board.
- Deadline: the third Monday in August each year, the date the county publishes and the date set by Ark. Code 26-27-317. Filing can start July 1.
- Hearings: the board must begin hearing appeals no later than the second Monday in August and must hold at least one after hours session a week for working owners.
- Evidence order: the assessor goes first with the material used to set the value, then the owner presents, then the assessor may rebut. Material evidence not shared with the assessor at least five business days beforehand can lead to a continuance.
- Standard: the owner does not need to show the assessment was clearly erroneous or confiscatory, only that a different value is right on the preponderance of the evidence.
- If the board stalls: where a board adjourns without acting on an appeal that raised an assessment, the owner is entitled to have increases over the prior year reduced.
- Next step: county court, with the deadline stated in the board's written decision.
Background is in how to appeal a property tax assessment in Arkansas and the site's appeal guide.
Sources: Cross County Assessor (equalization board and appeal deadline) and Arkansas county boards of equalization model hearing procedures.
Cross County property tax examples
These rows run the Cross County average of 51.39 mills through the 20% assessment ratio with one $600 credit applied. Use them as a budgeting baseline rather than a bill, since a Wynne city address at 54 mills and a Cherry Valley address at 48.85 both sit close to the average while the rural Earle district tier at 63.9 mills does not.
| Market value | Assessed at 20% | Tax before credit | After $600 credit | Monthly |
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| $100,000 | $20,000 | $1,028 | $428 | $35.65 |
| $250,000 | $50,000 | $2,570 | $1,970 | $164.13 |
| $118,000 (county median, rounded) | $23,600 | $1,213 | $613 | $51.07 |
| $400,000 | $80,000 | $4,111 | $3,511 | $292.60 |
| $500,000 | $100,000 | $5,139 | $4,539 | $378.25 |
Calculated at the 51.39 mill Cross County average for 2026 collections, with one $600 credit applied per row for a qualifying primary residence.
Cross County median home value and median tax
Cross County's Census profile appears below as background only. It is not used in the calculator, and it does not describe any individual parcel, district or credit status.
Cross County shows the standard gap between a surveyed median and a millage estimate. A $117,500 home assessed at 20% carries $23,500 of assessed value, and at the 51.39 mill average that implies about $1,208 of tax, roughly double the $596 owners report paying. Amendment 79 caps explain part of it, and so does district mix: the Cross County district's 35 school mills cover a wide rural area alongside Cherry Valley and Hickory Ridge, and any parcel in that district pays well under the county average. Long tenure does the rest, since the survey counts owners who have not moved and whose taxable value has been capped for years. Use the calculator above for a planning number.
Sources: B25077, median value; B25103, median tax; B01003, population. These are survey estimates and carry sampling error.
Cross County property tax questions
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The county average total millage is 51.39 mills for 2026 collections, made up of 39.93 school mills, 4.14 city mills and 9.10 county mills. Published combinations run from 44.1 mills in the rural Cross County district tier to 63.9 mills in the rural Earle district tier.
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Because only four cities levy a property tax and they stay in a narrow band. Wynne levies 5 mills, Cherry Valley 4.75, Hickory Ridge 3.8 and Parkin 3. That 2 mill spread between the highest and lowest city rate is worth $47.20 a year on a $118,000 home, while the school line spans nearly 20 mills.
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Earle is based in Crittenden County and reaches west across the county line. In Cross County it appears as a single rural tier at 54.8 school mills, and its 63.9 mill total is the most expensive rate in the county. Almost all of that school levy sits in the bond line: the state breakdown shows 29.8 mills of debt service against 10 mills in the Cross County district.
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Use the actDataScout real estate inquiry the county links from its assess and pay page. Search by name, address or parcel number. The tax records search on the same platform shows bills and receipts, and the payment link sits there too.
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No. The county's tax rates page is labelled as assessed in 2022 and collected in 2023, and it lists rates that no longer apply, including a 64.3 mill top rate. The current figures are the ones from the Arkansas DFA 2025 Millage Report for 2026 collections, which is what this page uses.
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Online through the county's actDataScout payment link, in person at 705 Union Ave E, Room 10, Wynne, or by mail to the same address. Cross County also keeps a drop box on the curb in the east parking lot that is checked daily, and accepts partial payments on current taxes.
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Yes, on current taxes. The collector describes them as similar to a lay-away plan and the balance must still be cleared by October 15. Partial payments are not accepted on delinquent taxes, and personal checks are not accepted on delinquent taxes either.
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At the Cross County Assessor's Office, 705 Union Ave E, Room 5, Wynne. Once the credit is applied you do not need to reapply unless you move or buy another home. The county's page still shows a $425 maximum and an October 10 filing date; the current amounts are $600 on a 2026 bill under Act 330 of 2025 and $675 from 2027 bills under Act 174 of 2026.
Nearby county pages
Official sources
The 51.39 mill Cross County average and all seven per-district rows in the table above.
Assessor Sherri Williams, the assessment windows, the homestead and freeze rules, and the Equalization Board members.
Collector Kristy Davis, the accepted payment methods, partial payments, the drop box and the March to October window.
The assess personal property and pay local taxes links, and the real estate inquiry.
Online payment and tax record search.
Courthouse address, office hours and the assessor and collector room numbers.
Retained on this page only to flag that its rate table is four collection years out of date.
State listing of the Cross County assessor's address and phone number.
The homestead credit amounts, the Amendment 79 caps and the senior and disabled freeze.
Statutory text raising the homestead credit to $600 for assessment years from January 1, 2025.
Statutory text raising the homestead credit to $675 for assessment years from January 1, 2026.
The third Monday in August filing deadline and the appeal hearing procedure.
Cross County's five-year cycle and 2025 appraisal year.