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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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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Cherokee County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement across the unincorporated areas of Cherokee County.
Police Departments. In addition to Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in Cherokee County is supported by municipal police departments, including the Columbus Police Department, Baxter Springs Police Department, and Galena Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, located at 110 West Maple Street in Columbus, Kansas 66725, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Cherokee County.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
Cherokee County Appraiser's Office, also located at 110 West Maple Street (phone: 620-429-1830), maintains property tax assessment records including ownership information, legal descriptions, assessed valuations, and property characteristics.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 49 mine sites inside the county: 45 past producers, now closed, 3 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 156 holes drawn inside the county, 46 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Lead, Zinc.
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. Underground coal mining in Kansas was concentrated in Cherokee and Crawford Counties.
Cherokee County sits over the Western 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 KDHE Abandoned Mine Land Program and linked below.
Kansas 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 18 investigations in Cherokee County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $154,398 in back wages agreed for 284 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLASS Ltd | Columbus | 4 | $106,657 | 229 |
| Jay Hatfield Chevrolet Buick, Inc. | Columbus | 1 | $24,661 | 38 |
| Los Lunas Mexican Restaurant, Inc. | Columbus | 1 | $14,180 | 17 |
| Cherokee County Assn., Inc | Columbus | 1 | $10,259 | 14 |
| City of Baxter Springs, Kansas | Baxter Springs | 1 | $4,511 | 3 |
| Cherokee County Ambulance Assoc. District #3 | Baxter Springs | 1 | $2,515 | 6 |
| KMT Waterjet Systems Inc | Baxter Springs | 1 | $2,348 | 1 |
| Moates Backhoe Services | Riverton | 1 | $662 | 1 |
| Celltron, Inc. | Galena | 1 | $178 | 1 |
| HYZ, Inc. | Galena | 1 | $169 | 2 |
| Dirtwork Specialists, LLC | Galena | 1 | $81 | 2 |
| CMG Operations, LLC | Baxter Springs | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Modco, Inc. | Columbus | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Crossland Construction Company, Inc. | Columbus | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Crossland Contractors, Inc | Columbus | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Cherokee County record, by back wages agreed; 5 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Kansas 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 Kansas criminal history record comes from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Central Repository. Name based search online at www.kansas.gov/kbi/criminalhistory (no longer by mail or walk in), or a certified or fingerprint based request to the KBI. Fee: $20.00 for a name based online search; $30 for a certified name based check; $35 for a fingerprint based Kansas check.
Search the Kansas Offender Registry (KBI), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county election officer (the county clerk, or the appointed election commissioner in Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte counties) or through the Kansas Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Registration books close 21 days before an election.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Cherokee County are kept by the Cherokee County Register of Deeds. Property values are set by the county appraiser, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Kansas come from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Office of Vital Statistics. Walk in at 1000 SW Jackson Suite 120, Topeka, KS 66612-2221 (Curtis State Office Building), by regular or priority mail, by telephone, or online through VitalChek, all listed by the Office. Fee: $20 for each certified copy (the first $20 is a five year record search fee that includes one copy if the record is found).
Business entity filings are searched with the Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services. Businesses should check with the county and city where they operate for local permits and licenses; many trades need state agency licenses.
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