Kentucky, Warren County
Where Bowling Green's records are kept. Bowling Green has its own city government, clerk's office and public library; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Bowling Green's own offices, along with State of Kentucky offices; the Warren County offices are on our Warren County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
State library and archives agency in Frankfort; its home page leads to the KDLA catalog, the Kentucky State Digital Archives, records ordering, records retention schedules and talking books.
Open official site Kentucky Department for Libraries and ArchivesCounty court
Bankruptcy court for western Kentucky, based in Louisville. Its site covers filing without an attorney, bankruptcy cases and credit reports, trustee 341 meetings, general orders and opinions.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of KentuckyCounty court
Kentucky Court of Justice sign in for its online court applications, including CourtNet 2.0 case access and eFiling; Kentucky Bar members use their KBA number, and new users can register.
Open official site KYeCourtsVital records
Cabinet for Health and Family Services office issuing certified birth, death, marriage, divorce and stillbirth records in person, by mail or via VitalChek; births and deaths start in 1911, marriages and divorces in June 1958.
Open official site Kentucky Office of Vital StatisticsPolice & jail
Kentucky Department of Corrections public lookup of offender records, updated daily; data newer than 120 days might not be final, and VINE alerts victims to custody changes.
Open official site Kentucky Offender Online Lookup (KOOL)Police & jail
Kentucky State Police Missing and Exploited Children Unit, the state clearinghouse since 1984, with a toll free line to report a missing child, safety tips for parents and the Kentucky Alert System.
Open official site Kentucky State Police Missing ChildrenPolice & jail
Kentucky State Police release of sex offender registration data under KRS 17.580, with email alerts when a registrant moves into a chosen zip code or an offender record changes.
Open official site Kentucky State Police Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
KSP name based check of an adult's Kentucky criminal history, done with that person's permission by mail or walk-in for a $20 check or money order; fingerprint checks go through IdentoGo.
Open official site Kentucky State Police Background ChecksFederal
Frequently requested Census Bureau statistics for Bowling Green city, Kentucky, covering population, housing, social, economic and geographic topics. The county, the state or the nation can be added alongside for comparison.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Bowling Green city government with property taxes, service requests, forms and permit applications, bids, the occupational license office, GIS maps, zoning and the code of ordinances and legal publications.
Open official site City of Bowling GreenCity records
Official records and legal files 1001 College Street Bowling Green KY 42101 Phone: (270) 393-3688
Open official site Bowling Green City ClerkCity records
Reference materials and research assistance 1225 State Street Bowling Green KY 42101 Phone: (270) 781-4882 Fax: (270) 78
Open official site Bowling Green Main Branch LibraryEverything else, organized
9 more Bowling Green sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Bowling Green, a place of 72,294 people, is the seat of Warren County. Court and property records sit with Warren County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Kentucky. Bowling Green's own offices are in the cards above, and our Warren County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the two federal mine files
The USGS topographic mine features record 1 mapped mine feature inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts, adits or tunnels, digitised from the old survey sheets.
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.
Kentucky 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.
Please read: Everything here can be wrong. This is information, not a guarantee: the two federal files can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, the boundaries and the geocoder can be wrong, a point is a location and not a property line, and nothing on this page says that a mine is or is not under any particular property. Do not buy, sell, move, or make any decision about a home or about your safety on this alone. Ask the state mine map office named here for the maps, and have a qualified engineer look at the ground.
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Voter registration in Kentucky is run by the Kentucky 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 Bowling Green.
Deeds for property in Bowling Green are recorded by the Warren County Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Warren County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Kentucky come from the state vital records office, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Businesses that operate in Bowling Green register with the Kentucky Secretary of State, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Bowling Green requires one, comes from the town or Warren 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.