North Carolina, Buncombe County
Where Asheville's records are kept. Asheville 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 Asheville's own offices, along with State of North Carolina offices; the Buncombe County offices are on our Buncombe County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
NC courts guide to background checks: a certified single county search from the clerk of superior court for $25 with form AOC-CR-314, or free uncertified searches on courthouse public computers.
Open official site North Carolina Judicial Branch Criminal Background CheckCity records
Based in Raleigh with sites in Manteo and Asheville, the State Archives of North Carolina handles copy orders and research requests and offers an online catalog plus over 90,000 free digitized items.
Open official site State Archives of North CarolinaCounty court
Bankruptcy court for western North Carolina with offices in Charlotte, Asheville and Statesville and a Shelby location in the Cleveland County Courthouse. All mail, including payments, goes to Charlotte.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of North CarolinaCounty court
The North Carolina Judicial Branch offers its Portal to search court records, find court dates and pay citations, along with a county courthouse directory, court forms and criminal background check requests.
Open official site North Carolina Judicial BranchVital records
Within the state Center for Health Statistics, North Carolina Vital Records registers births, deaths, marriages and divorces and issues certified copies by order, with in person service by appointment only.
Open official site North Carolina Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Current inmates, people on probation or parole and past offenders can be searched by name, offender number or birth date at the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, which lists escapes, absconders and releases.
Open official site NC DAC Offender Public InformationPolice & jail
North Carolina DOJ missing persons for Asheville.
Open official site Asheville North Carolina Missing PersonsPolice & jail
FBI Charlotte Field Office listing of fugitives wanted for violent and nonviolent crimes, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, and cases where agents want information.
Open official site FBI Charlotte Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
State Bureau of Investigation registry built from records that county sheriffs in all 100 counties enter; email alerts flag an offender moving within 1, 3 or 5 miles of an address you register.
Open official site North Carolina Sex Offender RegistryFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts for Asheville city, North Carolina lists 93,523 residents as of July 1, 2025 (94,589 in 2020), plus rent and home values, household income, poverty, travel time to work and land area.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCounty court
Asheville city government at 70 Court Plaza, with the city clerk, permits, water bill payment, trash and recycling schedules, transit maps, crime and nuisance reporting and Helene recovery news.
Open official site City of AshevillePolice & jail
We provide public safety and maintain order, enforce the laws of North Carolina, uphold the United States Constitution, and support National security. Emergency Services 100 Court Plaza, Asheville, NC, 28801 P.O. Box 7148, Asheville, NC 28802 Non-emergency:
Open official site Asheville Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
9 more Asheville sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Asheville, a place of 94,589 people, is the seat of Buncombe County. Court and property records sit with Buncombe County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Carolina. Asheville's own offices are in the cards above, and our Buncombe 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 7 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 3 sites producing when the record was made, 3 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 1 hole drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is crushed stone.
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. No abandoned mine inventory is published online.
North Carolina 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 194 investigations with a Asheville address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,946,168 in back wages agreed for 2,733 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHA Health Services, Inc. | 13 | $445,857 | 87 |
| Angel House Family Care Homes | 2 | $189,952 | 33 |
| AFG Distribution, Inc. | 1 | $143,962 | 152 |
| Thinos Inc. | 1 | $68,689 | 18 |
| Asheville Pizza & Brewing Company, Inc. | 1 | $66,580 | 79 |
| ClientLogic Corporation | 1 | $65,858 | 691 |
| Richmond Hill Rest Home LLC | 1 | $62,645 | 15 |
| Blue Ridge Mortgage Corporation | 1 | $57,482 | 43 |
| RhonAl, Inc. | 1 | $55,375 | 44 |
| VETBIZCORP, LLC | 1 | $54,456 | 51 |
| Upward Trend, LLC. | 1 | $52,394 | 12 |
| Vision Quest Mortgage Corporation | 1 | $50,522 | 21 |
| K&S Communications, LLC | 1 | $43,881 | 48 |
| West Asheville Restaurant Group, Inc. | 1 | $43,383 | 17 |
| Yu Ken Cut It, Inc | 2 | $43,260 | 64 |
| Consolidated Prop. Mangt. & Development, LLC | 1 | $42,809 | 45 |
| Rivendell Woods, Inc. & Landraw I, L.L.C. | 1 | $35,718 | 7 |
| Shogun Buffet & Hibachi Grill of Asheville | 2 | $34,467 | 19 |
| The Cousins Inc. | 1 | $34,235 | 9 |
| Pro Temps Medical Staffing, Inc. | 2 | $30,694 | 37 |
| WNC Family Care Homes, Inc. | 1 | $30,200 | 32 |
| Sandpiper Asheville, LLC | 1 | $29,840 | 5 |
| Gusmo2 Inc | 1 | $27,800 | 67 |
| Hulsing Hotels Inc. | 3 | $26,508 | 45 |
| Ingles Market Inc. | 2 | $26,314 | 15 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 164 whose address on the record is in Asheville; 55 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 139 more with smaller records are on the North Carolina wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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Voter registration in North Carolina is run by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Asheville.
Deeds for property in Asheville are recorded by the Buncombe County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Buncombe County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in North Carolina come from the state vital records office, North Carolina 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.