Tennessee, Maury County
Where Columbia's records are kept. Columbia has its own city government and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Columbia's own offices, along with State of Tennessee offices; the Maury County offices are on our Maury County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation sells a Tennessee only adult criminal history check on any person for $29, online or by mail with no fingerprints; a nationwide FBI fingerprint check costs $50 through its contractor.
Open official site TBI Background ChecksState records
Under the Tennessee Secretary of State, the State Library and Archives offers an online catalog, research guides for genealogists, the TeVA digital collections of maps and images, and the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Open official site Tennessee State Library and ArchivesCounty court
Nashville clerk's office at 701 Broadway, open weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., backed by unstaffed offices in Columbia and Cookeville; daily dockets, forms and an unclaimed funds locator are posted.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of TennesseeCounty court
The Administrative Office of the Courts in Nashville runs Tennessee's judiciary site, carrying appellate opinions and oral argument dockets, a courthouse finder, court clerks by county, forms and a self help center.
Open official site Tennessee Administrative Office of the CourtsVital records
Tennessee Department of Health office issuing birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates; county health departments also issue birth and death certificates, and anyone other than a parent, child or spouse must show entitlement.
Open official site Tennessee Office of Vital RecordsPolice & jail
From the Tennessee Department of Correction and Board of Parole, this lookup finds felony offenders by name, TDOC ID or state ID number, with aliases optional; an official background check comes from TBI.
Open official site Tennessee Felony Offender InformationPolice & jail
Posters of missing Tennessee children and adults from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, with active AMBER, Endangered Child and Silver alerts; the TBI notes the list is not every missing person in the state.
Open official site TBI Missing Persons ClearinghousePolice & jail
Since 1993 the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has posted its Top 10 Most Wanted, fugitives sought for violent felonies or major drug trafficking in Tennessee, with rewards offered for tips.
Open official site Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Top 10 Most WantedPolice & jail
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation registry guide: who must register, the yearly reporting for sexual offenders and quarterly reporting for violent sexual offenders, and the registry law; the database is updated daily.
Open official site Tennessee Sex Offender Registry InformationFederal
Frequently requested Census Bureau statistics for Columbia city, Tennessee, covering population, housing, social, economic and geographic topics. The county, the state or the nation can be added alongside for comparison.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Pay bills and property tax online, check agendas and minutes, building codes and permits, trash collection and City Court, or report a pothole. Columbia city offices are at 700 N Garden Street.
Open official site City of ColumbiaPolice & jail
Records and investigations division 800 Westover Drive Columbia, TN 38401 (931) 380-2710
Open official site Columbia Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
12 more Columbia sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Columbia, a place of 41,690 people, is the seat of Maury County. Court and property records sit with Maury County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Tennessee. Columbia's own offices are in the cards above, and our Maury County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 20 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 6 past producers, now closed, 2 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 2 sites producing when the record was made, 4 processing plants, which are not workings, 6 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 3 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Phosphorus-Phosphates.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. Tennessee's coal regulatory program was run by OSMRE until the state took it back; the state AML program is in TDEC.
Tennessee abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 34 investigations with a Columbia address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $616,590 in back wages agreed for 486 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Bank Note Company | 1 | $206,525 | 48 |
| Maury County Highway Department | 1 | $78,840 | 64 |
| KCS Construction,LLC | 2 | $65,973 | 20 |
| Caring Hearts Home Healthcare, L.L.C. | 1 | $43,756 | 23 |
| Vishnu Inc. | 1 | $42,908 | 15 |
| Southern Tre, LLC | 1 | $42,123 | 37 |
| Middle Tennessee Detention Center, LLC | 1 | $37,467 | 45 |
| La Superior | 1 | $32,448 | 19 |
| ResCare | 1 | $29,844 | 36 |
| Farmers Family Restaurant, Inc. | 2 | $14,700 | 132 |
| Banjo Enterprises, LLC | 1 | $8,803 | 20 |
| Columbia MacHine Works, Inc. | 1 | $5,611 | 21 |
| Medicine in Motion of Middle TN, LLC | 1 | $2,642 | 1 |
| Wholesale Tire of Tullahoma | 1 | $2,561 | 2 |
| J&J Pizza Service, LLC/S&S Pizza, LLC | 1 | $1,626 | 21 |
| Hafner Enterprises | 1 | $1,375 | 3 |
| Commercial Glass & Mirror | 1 | $782 | 7 |
| Nickell Company, LLC. | 1 | $721 | 2 |
| Little Tikes Daycare, Inc | 1 | $500 | 4 |
| R & C Weinand Inc. | 1 | $446 | 21 |
| Quality Contractors Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Johnson Control, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Downtown BP Market | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Impact Centers, Inc | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Alexander Backhoe & Dozer | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 30 whose address on the record is in Columbia; 13 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 5 more with smaller records are on the Tennessee wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Tennessee is run by the Tennessee Division of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Columbia.
Deeds for property in Columbia are recorded by the Maury County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Maury County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Tennessee come from the state vital records office, Tennessee Office of Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.