North Carolina, Mecklenburg County
Where Charlotte's records are kept. Charlotte 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 Charlotte's own offices, along with the Mecklenburg County and State of North Carolina offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City 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 Charlotte.
Open official site Charlotte 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 RegistryPolice & 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 CheckFederal
Federal statistics table for Charlotte city, North Carolina, from the U.S. Census Bureau, giving basic population, business and geography facts; an information icon beside each row names the survey behind it.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Charlotte city government with Help/311, water bill payment, trash and transit schedules, police report search, the city clerk, council meetings and agendas and city codes and ordinances.
Open official site City of CharlottePolice & jail
Emergency services 601 East Trade Street Charlotte, N.C. 28202
Open official site Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
11 more Charlotte sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Charlotte, a place of 874,579 people, is the seat of Mecklenburg County. Court and property records sit with Mecklenburg County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Carolina. Charlotte's own offices are in the cards above, and our Mecklenburg 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 55 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 48 past producers, now closed, 3 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 2 sites producing when the record was made, 2 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 9 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Gold; Granite; 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 1,435 investigations with a Charlotte address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $20,925,634 in back wages agreed for 18,812 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wachovia Bank | 1 | $5,798,744 | 1,381 |
| Strickland Waterproofing Company, Inc. | 6 | $672,465 | 231 |
| City of Charlotte | 3 | $527,918 | 195 |
| CFY Inc | 2 | $467,756 | 410 |
| ASP Charlotte II, Inc. | 1 | $444,243 | 20 |
| Steritech Group, Inc. | 1 | $382,461 | 417 |
| Direct Chassislink, Inc. | 2 | $357,418 | 125 |
| HMS Holdings Limited Partnership | 1 | $351,783 | 214 |
| Old Pueblo Golf Partners LLC | 3 | $322,488 | 145 |
| Bobcats Basketball LLC | 1 | $273,027 | 106 |
| Basland Inc | 1 | $239,671 | 147 |
| J & A Concrete and Steel Services, Inc. | 1 | $234,035 | 65 |
| Personal Home Care of North Carolina LLC. | 1 | $203,211 | 173 |
| IPD Company Inc. | 1 | $185,964 | 181 |
| Southend Painting Contractors, Inc. | 1 | $178,756 | 32 |
| XPO Logistics, LLC | 3 | $176,709 | 57 |
| S & H Homecare Services LLC | 1 | $163,763 | 32 |
| CleanNet of Charlotte, Inc. | 2 | $159,946 | 52 |
| H&H Personnel Incorporated, Inc. | 1 | $148,707 | 292 |
| Fry Electric Company | 1 | $143,379 | 81 |
| Poclt Inc | 1 | $138,496 | 78 |
| T & B Management, LLC | 1 | $134,547 | 64 |
| J. Correas Electrical Company, LLC | 1 | $130,858 | 31 |
| Advance Body Solutions LLC | 1 | $129,613 | 134 |
| Friends Masonry Construction, LLC | 1 | $129,371 | 69 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 1,215 whose address on the record is in Charlotte; 383 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 1,190 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 Charlotte.
Deeds for property in Charlotte are recorded by the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Mecklenburg 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.