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Find the right office in Cherokee County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Property records
Property in Cherokee County is valued by the county tax assessor and the taxes are billed and collected by the county tax collector, whose records give the owner, the parcel and the assessed value.
Open official site Cherokee County Property Tax InformationPolice & jail
Request criminal reports and look up inmates.
Open official site Cherokee County SheriffVital records
Cherokee County Birth Certificates, the office that issues these certificates, with the application, identification and fee rules it publishes.
Open official site Cherokee County Birth CertificatesCity records
Search for information for county businesses.
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The Alabama Center for Health Statistics publishes birth, death, marriage and divorce statistics and a query system for resident births and deaths, and issues certified Alabama vital records.
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Quick, easy facts about people, business and geography.
Open official site Cherokee County Census InformationVital records
Get information regarding obtaining marriage records in Cherokee County.
Open official site Cherokee County Marriage InformationCity records
Cherokee County Schools publishes its school board agendas and minutes, its budget, its policies and its calendar, and the district office answers requests for student records.
Open official site Cherokee County SchoolsState records
Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Open official site Search for Cherokee County recordsCity records
Cherokee County Library, with the catalog, branch information and the local history and reference collections it holds.
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Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce: Business information and directory, on the official site of the office that keeps it.
Open official site Cherokee County Chamber of CommerceCity records
Alabama Maps at the University of Alabama publishes the general highway map of Cherokee County as a PDF and a JPEG, showing the county seat, the towns and the numbered routes.
Open official site Cherokee County map, University of AlabamaEverything else, organized
2 more Cherokee County sources not listed above.
Local record guide
County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Cherokee County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in Cherokee County's unincorporated areas.
Police Departments. Cherokee County is served by multiple law enforcement agencies, including Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments such as the Centre Police Department and Cedar Bluff Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 130 Cedar Bluff Road in Centre, Alabama 35960, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Cherokee County. Under Alabama's public records law, specifically the Alabama Open Records Act (Code of Alabama § 36-12-40), citizens have the right to request arrest records, incident reports, and booking logs from law enforcement agencies. No tribal police agencies operate within Cherokee County, as the Cherokee Nation was forcibly removed in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 168 mine sites inside the county: 67 past producers, now closed, 70 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 1 site producing when the record was made, 30 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 48 holes drawn inside the county, 1 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Iron; Aluminum; Manganese.
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.
Cherokee County sits over 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 county. 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 25 investigations in Cherokee County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $192,422 in back wages agreed for 199 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extermco, LLC | Cedar Bluff | 1 | $64,386 | 41 |
| K & M Mail Services, Inc. | Centre | 3 | $24,275 | 14 |
| Young Oil, Inc. | Piedmont | 1 | $23,811 | 10 |
| Kimberly Sales, Inc. | Leesburg | 1 | $8,533 | 4 |
| Baggett's Trailer Connection, L.L.C. | Piedmont | 1 | $8,478 | 17 |
| Northeastern Refrigeration | Piedmont | 1 | $6,393 | 10 |
| Tony's Meats, Inc. | Leesburg | 1 | $4,544 | 4 |
| Ellis Brothers Gin, Inc. | Centre | 1 | $3,229 | 31 |
| Eddie's Refrigeration Heating & Air, Inc. | Gaylesville | 1 | $1,878 | 6 |
| K.E.P. LLC | Piedmont | 2 | $1,643 | 14 |
| Cherokee Gin & Cotton Co. | Centre | 3 | $0 | 0 |
| Fast Cash, LLC | Centre | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| S & H Waterproofing and Construction, LLC | Piedmont | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Dadedo Inc. | Centre | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Woodland Polymers, Inc. | Piedmont | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Williams McGue Incorporated | Piedmont | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| American Apparel, Inc, Centre | Centre | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Cherokee County record, by back wages agreed; 9 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Alabama wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Cherokee County Sheriff or a city police department in Cherokee County. Ask that agency for its record.
The Alabama criminal history record comes from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Criminal Records Identification Unit. Fingerprint based request: send the ALEA Application to Review Alabama Criminal History Record Information with fingerprints and a copy of your photo ID, in person at 301 S. Ripley Street, Montgomery, or by mail to PO Box 1511, Montgomery, AL 36102-1511. Fee: $25 by money order or cashier's check; each additional copy is $5.
Search the Alabama Sex Offender Registry (ALEA Community Notification), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county Board of Registrars or through the Alabama Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Registration is closed during the 14 days before an election and on election day.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Cherokee County are kept by the Cherokee County Judge of Probate. Property values are set by the county Tax Assessor, or Revenue Commissioner in counties that combine the offices, and tax bills come from the county Tax Collector, or Revenue Commissioner in counties that combine the offices. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Alabama come from the Alabama Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics. Any county health department in Alabama issues certified copies of Alabama vital records, most while you wait. By mail to Center for Health Statistics, P.O. Box 5625, Montgomery, Alabama 36103-5625, in person at any county health department, or online and by phone through VitalChek at 1-888-279-9888. Fee: $15 for a search, which includes one certified copy; additional copies of the same record ordered at the same time are $6 each.
Business entity filings are searched with the Alabama Secretary of State. State and county business privilege licenses are issued by the county Probate Judge or License Commissioner where the business is located, and cities set their own licenses.
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