California, San Diego County
Where Imperial Beach's records are kept. Imperial Beach has its own city government, clerk's office and fire department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Imperial Beach's own offices, along with State of California offices; the San Diego County offices are on our San Diego County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
San Diego and Imperial counties' bankruptcy court is housed in the Jacob Weinberger U.S. Courthouse, 325 West F Street, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and offers an unclaimed funds search and self help center.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital records
Keeps California birth, death, fetal death, marriage and divorce records, issues certified copies and registers or amends records as the law allows. Accepted orders cannot be canceled or refunded.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
FBI San Diego Field Office list of fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapping and missing person cases, and cases where agents are seeking information. Results can be filtered by year and sorted by name.
Open official site FBI San Diego Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Frequently requested Census Bureau statistics for Imperial Beach city, California in QuickFacts: population, business and geography facts for a community of 26,137 at the 2020 Census.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Imperial Beach's official city site lists council meetings, agendas and minutes, permits and business licenses, records requests, parking tickets, payments, the municipal code and Tijuana River pollution updates. City Hall: 825 Imperial Beach Blvd.
Open official site City of Imperial BeachCity records
Official public documents and records 825 Imperial Beach Blvd. Imperial Beach, CA 91932 phone: (619) 423-8616 fax: (619)
Open official site Imperial Beach City ClerkCity records
Imperial Beach Fire Rescue Department: 825 Imperial Beach Blvd Imperial Beach, CA 91932 Phone: (619) 423-8225 Email: ibpsafety@cityofib.org.
Open official site Imperial Beach Fire Rescue DepartmentEverything else, organized
9 more Imperial Beach sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Imperial Beach, a place of 26,137 people, is in San Diego County, whose county seat is San Diego. Court and property records sit with San Diego County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Imperial Beach's own offices are in the cards above, and our San Diego County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the two federal mine files
The USGS topographic mine features record 1 mapped mine feature inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts, adits or tunnels, digitised from the old survey sheets.
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.
Please read: Everything here can be wrong. This is information, not a guarantee: the two federal files can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, the boundaries and the geocoder can be wrong, a point is a location and not a property line, and nothing on this page says that a mine is or is not under any particular property. Do not buy, sell, move, or make any decision about a home or about your safety on this alone. Ask the state mine map office named here for the maps, and have a qualified engineer look at the ground.
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Imperial Beach.
Deeds for property in Imperial Beach are recorded by the San Diego County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our San Diego County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Same county
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.