Wichita Bonding Co. has some of the best bondsmen in the industry working with us. Our office is at 700 N Market St in Wichita and we travel to Andover and anywhere in Butler County to post a bond. We are not here just to provide a service and make money. We actually care about the people who call us, usually on the worst night they have had in a long time.
Andover is a different county from Wichita, and that changes almost everything about what happens next. It is worth understanding before you start making calls.
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A bail bond is a service fee for putting up bail money to a court in order to allow you to get out of jail until your court date. The court will set a bail amount for you, if it is more than you can afford and you don’t want yourself or your loved one to remain in jail until that court date, then you need to talk to a bail bonds company who will put the money up on your behalf.
Co-signing for a bail bond means you are taking legal responsibility for the full amount of the bail bond. So if the court said the bail bond was $10,000, and the bail bondsman is asking you to pay $1,000 to them as their service fee, and the person skips out and runs from the appointed court date, the bondsman will come after you to get the money they put up to the court, which means you owe the full $10,000.
If they were arrested in Andover, they are usually in Butler County custody at the Butler County Adult Detention Facility, 701 S Stone Rd in El Dorado, not the Sedgwick County jail in Wichita. Butler County has no online inmate search, so you cannot look this up yourself. Call (316) 833-8506 and we will find out where they are and what the bond is.
Andover sits in Butler County, not Sedgwick County, even though it runs right up against the east edge of Wichita. That single fact is what trips most families up. Someone arrested in Andover is taken to the Butler County Adult Detention Facility at 701 S Stone Rd in El Dorado, a 230 bed jail that opened in 2003. The reception line is (316) 322-4160.
The far west edge of Andover does extend into Sedgwick County. If the arrest happened in that sliver, the county could be different. We can sort that out in one phone call rather than you guessing.
This is the biggest practical difference between Andover and anywhere in Wichita. Sedgwick County publishes a free inmate search that anyone can use from a phone at 2am. Butler County does not.
What Butler County publishes instead is a set of dated PDF rosters on the Sheriff’s website, and they are not posted daily. Recent postings ran several days apart, and only about six dates stay live at a time. If your person was booked last night, there is a real chance they appear on no published list at all.
So the honest answer is that you usually cannot confirm an Andover arrest yourself the way you could in Wichita. You either call the jail, or you call someone who does this every day. We make that call for you, and it costs you nothing to ask.
Which court has the case decides where the bond gets posted and when the first appearance happens.
Andover Municipal Court handles violations of Andover city ordinances committed inside city limits, which is mostly traffic and lower level offenses charged under city code. There is no jury in municipal court. A judge decides the case. The court is at 1609 E Central Ave, Andover, KS 67002, phone (316) 733-4510. Andover Police are at 909 N Andover Rd, phone (316) 733-5177.
Butler County District Court handles anything charged under Kansas state law, which means every felony and the state misdemeanors. That court is at 201 W Pine, Suite 101, El Dorado, KS 67042, phone (316) 322-4370. Butler County sits in the 13th Judicial District, along with Elk and Greenwood counties. The City of Andover refers felony matters to the Butler County Attorney at (316) 321-6999.
A felony is never handled in municipal court, no matter where the arrest happened.
This one catches almost everybody, and getting it wrong means your letter is thrown away.
Personal mail for a Butler County inmate does not go to the jail in El Dorado. It goes to a scanning service in Texas: Inmate Name, Butler County Detention Facility, PO Box 591, Longview, TX 75606. The letter is scanned, delivered to a kiosk in the inmate’s cell electronically, and the physical letter is destroyed and never returned. Five pages maximum, one photo per mailing, front side only, and it must carry the inmate’s name and booking number.
Legal mail is the exception. As of June 18, 2026, legal mail must be sent directly to the facility at Butler County Detention Center, 701 S Stone Rd, El Dorado, KS 67042. Sending legal mail to Texas is a mistake that can genuinely hurt a case.
Our office is in Wichita. Andover is a short drive from us, and El Dorado, where the jail actually is, is further out. That drive is the part you should not have to make at two in the morning while you are trying to work out what happened.
One of our bondsmen handles the trip and the paperwork. We answer the phone 24 hours a day. Call (316) 833-8506 and we will tell you where they are, what the bond is, and exactly what it will cost you before you agree to anything.
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