What was Barney Fife's address in the episode 'Sheriff Barney'?

In “Sheriff Barney,” Barney Fife’s address is given as 411 Elm Street.

The address appears during the second-season episode’s comic storyline, in which Barney temporarily takes on the role of sheriff. His overconfidence leads him to treat routine law-enforcement duties with exaggerated seriousness, creating the kind of misunderstanding that regularly drives the show’s humor.

The joke is that the address is familiar to Barney and Andy, and the scene plays on Barney’s difficulty recognizing what is happening around him. The line is therefore more than a piece of fictional geography: it becomes part of a prank-like exchange involving Otis Campbell, Mayberry’s perpetually intoxicated town drunk.

Viewers sometimes confuse Barney’s address with addresses given for Andy Taylor’s home in other episodes. The series was not always consistent about Mayberry street numbers, and several different addresses are mentioned for the Taylor residence across the run. That continuity issue does not change the answer here: within “Sheriff Barney,” the address associated with Barney is 411 Elm Street.