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Find the right office in Allen County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Allen County Sheriff's Office, the elected county law enforcement office, with incident reports, warrants and jail information as the office publishes them.
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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Allen County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in Allen County's unincorporated areas.
Police Departments. In addition to Allen County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in Allen County is supported by municipal police departments, including the Iola Police Department and the Humboldt Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Allen County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Allen County, Kansas, headquartered at 215 North Washington Avenue, Iola, KS 66749. Inmate information and jail roster can be obtained by calling the Sheriff's Office directly or visiting the facility during business hours; some Kansas counties participate in third-party inmate lookup systems, though Allen County primarily handles inquiries by phone. Smaller communities may contract with the Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services. Arrest records in Allen County are public records subject to the Kansas Open Records Act (K.S. 45-215 et seq.), which establishes the presumption that government records are open to the public unless specifically exempted by law.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Allen County are maintained by Allen County Sheriff's Office. Residents and attorneys can request arrest records by contacting the Sheriff's Office directly, following the guidelines set forth by the Kansas Open Records Act.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Allen County are taken and retained by Allen County Sheriff's Office during the booking process. These booking photos are part of the arrest records and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office or potentially through third-party online databases.
The jail provides an inmate lookup service where you can inquire about recent arrests. You may also call the jail at (620) 365-1402 for more information about an inmate's status and charges.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 2 mine sites inside the county: 2 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 52 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
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. Underground coal mining in Kansas was concentrated in Cherokee and Crawford Counties.
Allen County sits over the Western Region coal field and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this county. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by KDHE Abandoned Mine Land Program and linked below.
Kansas 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 16 investigations in Allen County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $108,387 in back wages agreed for 128 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Jimador LLC | Iola | 1 | $67,964 | 11 |
| Tara Gardens | Iola | 1 | $15,001 | 31 |
| AutoZone, Incorporated | Iola | 1 | $14,322 | 15 |
| DLO Inc | Iola | 1 | $4,005 | 31 |
| ANW Special Education Cooperative Interlocal | Humboldt | 1 | $3,353 | 11 |
| Kid's Kingdom Childcare of Iola KS Inc. | Iola | 1 | $2,040 | 16 |
| City of Iola | Iola | 1 | $649 | 1 |
| Sigg Motors, LLC | Iola | 1 | $362 | 1 |
| Dimensions in Senior Living, LLC | Iola | 1 | $221 | 1 |
| Strickler Holstein Farms, LLC | Iola | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Heartland Meadows LLC | Iola | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| WB Real Estate of Iola, LLC | Iola | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Allen County record, by back wages agreed; 4 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Kansas wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Allen County Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Allen County. Ask that agency for its record.
The Kansas criminal history record comes from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Central Repository. Name based search online at www.kansas.gov/kbi/criminalhistory (no longer by mail or walk in), or a certified or fingerprint based request to the KBI. Fee: $20.00 for a name based online search; $30 for a certified name based check; $35 for a fingerprint based Kansas check.
Search the Kansas Offender Registry (KBI), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county election officer (the county clerk, or the appointed election commissioner in Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte counties) or through the Kansas Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Registration books close 21 days before an election.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Allen County are kept by the Allen County Register of Deeds. Property values are set by the county appraiser, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Kansas come from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Office of Vital Statistics. Walk in at 1000 SW Jackson Suite 120, Topeka, KS 66612-2221 (Curtis State Office Building), by regular or priority mail, by telephone, or online through VitalChek, all listed by the Office. Fee: $20 for each certified copy (the first $20 is a five year record search fee that includes one copy if the record is found).
Business entity filings are searched with the Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services. Businesses should check with the county and city where they operate for local permits and licenses; many trades need state agency licenses.
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