Tennessee, Shelby County
Where Arlington's records are kept. Arlington has its own town government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Arlington's own offices, along with State of Tennessee offices; the Shelby County offices are on our Shelby 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
West Tennessee bankruptcy court with clerk offices in Memphis and Jackson. Court calendars, forms, filing fees, judges' opinions, proofs of claim, transcripts and unclaimed funds are reached from its home page.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western 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
U.S. Census Bureau fact table for Arlington town, Tennessee: 15,703 people estimated for July 2025 and 14,549 counted in 2020, plus figures on households, home values, income, schooling and employers.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Arlington town offices at 5854 Airline Road, with property tax payment, permits, open records requests, utilities and trash collection, business license and tax, beer permits and agendas.
Open official site Town of ArlingtonPolice & jail
Full service law enforcement agency for Shelby County, Tennessee, and keeper of people held before trial, with a jail inmate lookup, warrant search, ticket payment and tip line.
Open official site Shelby County Sheriff's Office (Tennessee)Everything else, organized
9 more Arlington sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Arlington, a place of 14,549 people, is in Shelby County, whose county seat is Memphis. Court and property records sit with Shelby County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Tennessee. Arlington's own offices are in the cards above, and our Shelby 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed, 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 1 site producing when the record was made. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Clay.
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.
Arlington sits over the Mississippi Region coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. 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 town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by TDEC Mining, Data and Map Viewers and linked below.
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.
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 Arlington.
Deeds for property in Arlington are recorded by the Shelby County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Shelby 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.
Businesses that operate in Arlington register with the Tennessee Secretary of State, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Arlington requires one, comes from the town or Shelby County.
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.