California, Merced County
Where Atwater's records are kept. Atwater has its own utility office and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Atwater's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Merced County offices are on our Merced County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordProperty 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
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaCounty court
The Judicial Branch of California runs Find Your Court: enter a five digit California zip code or a city name to see the court locations nearest to it.
Open official site Judicial Branch of California Find Your CourtVital 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
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & 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
U.S. Census Bureau fact table for Atwater city, California: 32,133 people estimated for July 2025 and 31,970 counted in 2020, plus figures on households, home values, income, schooling and employers.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Atwater's city government site, with council meetings and agendas, the city clerk and treasurer, police reports and online accident report requests, fire, community development, public works and the municipal code.
Open official site City of AtwaterCity records
Atwater City Clerk, the office that keeps county filings and public records, with the copies and searches it publishes.
Open official site Atwater City ClerkEverything else, organized
10 more Atwater sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Atwater, a place of 31,970 people, is in Merced County, whose county seat is Merced. Court and property records sit with Merced County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Atwater's own offices are in the cards above, and our Merced County page lists each county office.
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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 Atwater.
Deeds for property in Atwater are recorded by the Merced County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Merced 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.