California, Butte County
Where Chico's records are kept. Chico has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Chico's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Butte County offices are on our Butte County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordProperty records
Butte County Assessor locates and values all taxable property in the county, keeps parcel maps and ownership changes, applies exemptions, and offers parcel search, e-filing and assessment appeal information.
Open official site Butte County AssessorState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaCounty court
The Judicial Branch of California runs Find Your Court: enter a five digit California zip code or a city name to see the court locations nearest to it.
Open official site Judicial Branch of California Find Your CourtVital records
Keeps California birth, death, fetal death, marriage and divorce records, issues certified copies and registers or amends records as the law allows. Accepted orders cannot be canceled or refunded.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Census Bureau summary of Chico city, California, with population totals, age, sex, housing and business statistics. It carries the most recent estimates only, so earlier years need other Census tools.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Chico city government at 411 Main Street, handling building permits, business and animal licenses, parking tickets, code enforcement reports and online police crime reports.
Open official site City of ChicoCity records
Public records, reports, documentation 411 Main Street Chico, CA 95927-3420 Phone: 530-896-7250 Fax: 530-895-4825
Open official site Chico City ClerkEverything else, organized
13 more Chico sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Chico, a place of 101,475 people, is in Butte County, whose county seat is Oroville. Court and property records sit with Butte County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Chico's own offices are in the cards above, and our Butte 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made, 1 processing plant, which is not a working, 1 site with no status in the record.
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.
California 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 26 investigations with a Chico address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $283,932 in back wages agreed for 186 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramos & Lecona LLC | 1 | $123,656 | 8 |
| Glad Investments, Inc. | 1 | $36,828 | 33 |
| Associated Arborists, Inc. | 1 | $10,899 | 5 |
| Daylight Tree Service and Equipment, LLC | 1 | $9,558 | 0 |
| Daylight Vegetation Management, LLC | 1 | $9,378 | 0 |
| EmpRes Healthcare Group, Inc. | 1 | $4,620 | 18 |
| Four Seasons Roofing | 1 | $2,507 | 7 |
| Broadway Pawn Shop | 1 | $2,228 | 2 |
| Firestorm Wild Land Fire Suppression, Inc. | 1 | $721 | 5 |
| Townsend House Assisted Living | 1 | $520 | 1 |
| Chico, City of | 1 | $285 | 2 |
| J.E. McAmis, Inc. | 1 | $39 | 1 |
| Broadway Music Center | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Broadway Diamond Exchange | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Solo Steel Erectors, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Broadway | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Advance Kids, Inc | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Monterey House Assisted Living | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Panama House Assisted Living | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Sin of Cortez, Inc | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Pacoo's By Chef DaPher | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| SSJ Properties, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Harrison Contracting Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Chico, 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 California wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Chico.
Deeds for property in Chico are recorded by the Butte County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Butte County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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.