Alabama, Jefferson County
Where Bessemer's records are kept. Bessemer has its own police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Bessemer's own offices, along with State of Alabama offices; the Jefferson County offices are on our Jefferson County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
Quick search for missing children, sex offenders, Amber alerts for Bessemer Alabama.
Open official site Center for Missing & Exploited Children, AlabamaPolice & jail
The officers and firefighters in the Bessemer Fire Department are committed to be the best in our profession. Official police department for Bessemer, Alabama.
Open official site Bessemer Alabama Police DepartmentProperty records
The Alabama Department of Revenue lists each county's tax assessor or revenue commissioner, with address, phone and a link to that county's online appraisal and assessment records.
Open official site Alabama Department of Revenue County Appraisal and Assessment RecordsState records
Researchers can visit or send requests to the Alabama Department of Archives and History, which keeps digital collections, county records on microfilm, newspapers, maps, church records and Civil War service records.
Open official site Alabama Department of Archives and HistoryCounty court
North Alabama's federal bankruptcy court sits in Anniston, Huntsville, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa and posts each judge's hearings, a 30 day attorney calendar and trustee 341 meeting reports, with case details by phone.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of AlabamaVital records
Divorce certificates for Alabama divorces since 1950 come from the Center for Health Statistics to anyone paying the $15 search fee, which covers one certified copy; for earlier cases, ask the county circuit court.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Divorce CertificatesVital records
Alabama's Center for Health Statistics has filed marriage certificates since August 1936, open to anyone; a $15 search includes one certified copy. Earlier records sit with the county probate office.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Marriage CertificatesVital records
The Alabama Center for Health Statistics holds birth certificates filed since 1908, restricted for 125 years to the person, close family or a legal representative. The $15 search fee includes one certified copy.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Birth CertificatesPolice & jail
Search current Alabama Department of Corrections inmates by AIS number or full name to see race, birth year and institution; released inmates and those sentenced as youthful offenders are not listed.
Open official site Alabama Department of Corrections Inmate SearchPolice & jail
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency posts wanted fugitives with case number, offense category, issue date and place last seen; tips go to the agency named on each listing or to ALEA.
Open official site Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Fugitive SearchPolice & jail
ALEA's Criminal Justice Information Services keeps Alabama's registry of more than 16,000 sex offenders, updated daily from local law enforcement; juvenile, youthful offender and some out of state cases are not posted.
Open official site Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
ALEA web system that lets qualifying employers check Alabama criminal records of current and prospective employees by subscription. Questions to 1-866-740-4762 or 334-676-7897, weekdays 8 to 5.
Open official site Alabama Background Check System (ABC)Everything else, organized
17 more Bessemer sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Bessemer, a place of 26,019 people, is in Jefferson County, whose county seat is Birmingham. In Alabama, deeds, marriage certificates, wills and estates are recorded by the Judge of Probate, which for Bessemer means the Jefferson County Probate Office in Birmingham. Court cases go through the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk, and any county health department issues copies of birth and death certificates. Bessemer's own offices are in the cards above, and our Jefferson 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 18 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 10 past producers, now closed, 5 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 3 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 22 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 8 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Iron.
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. The Geological Survey of Alabama coal page is a script application that gives this box no readable text, so it is not listed.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
Bessemer lies on the edge of the Appalachian 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 town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Alabama Department of Labor, Mine Safety office (underground mine maps) and linked below.
Alabama 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 87 investigations with a Bessemer address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $979,357 in back wages agreed for 902 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAGB, LLC | 1 | $180,366 | 58 |
| Charles Wilson Mail Truck, Inc. | 1 | $64,762 | 7 |
| The Bright Star Restaurant Inc. | 1 | $59,922 | 24 |
| Adkins and Kimbrough Mechanical, LLC | 2 | $49,404 | 26 |
| Inventory IQ, LLC | 1 | $26,397 | 8 |
| Aerotec LLC | 1 | $19,452 | 19 |
| Citation Corporation | 1 | $18,000 | 6 |
| Hueytown Verterinary Clinic | 1 | $17,440 | 54 |
| R & M Enterprises, LLC. | 1 | $13,067 | 17 |
| Brawco, Inc | 1 | $10,434 | 39 |
| Masonry Arts, Inc. | 2 | $9,969 | 2 |
| Checkerboard Foods, LLC | 2 | $8,872 | 62 |
| City of Lipscomb-City Hall | 1 | $7,707 | 19 |
| R.B. Atkins & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $7,324 | 3 |
| Town & Country Ford, L.L.C. | 1 | $6,841 | 10 |
| SOE Masonry Contractor | 1 | $5,464 | 13 |
| Eagle Cleaning Service, LLC | 3 | $5,443 | 15 |
| Bundles of Joy LLC | 1 | $3,520 | 4 |
| Calloway, Inc | 1 | $3,482 | 23 |
| Wynnchurch Capital Ltd. | 1 | $3,304 | 1 |
| Dunnam's Private School Inc. | 1 | $3,173 | 9 |
| Medical Transport of Alabama, LLC | 1 | $3,130 | 31 |
| Roy Investment Company Inc. | 2 | $3,060 | 12 |
| Physical Security, LLC | 2 | $2,741 | 4 |
| Wings around the clock | 1 | $2,286 | 25 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 68 whose address on the record is in Bessemer; 25 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 43 more with smaller records are on the Alabama wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Alabama is run by the Alabama Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Bessemer.
Deeds for property in Bessemer are recorded by the Jefferson County Judge of Probate, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Jefferson County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Alabama come from the state vital records office, Alabama Center for Health Statistics, and any Alabama county health department can issue copies. The state office's site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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