Mississippi, Covington County
Where Collins's records are kept. Collins has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Collins's own offices, along with the Covington County and State of Mississippi offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
The Mississippi Secretary of State business search: corporations, LLCs, partnerships and nonprofits by name or business ID, with officers, filings and status.
Open official site Mississippi business entity searchVital records
Mississippi death certificates from the State Department of Health Vital Records: certified copies for deaths in Mississippi since 1912, ordered online, by mail or in person in Jackson.
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Sheriff Darrell M. Perkins and the Covington County Sheriff's Department at 1107 Main Street in Collins: keeping the peace, serving as county jailor and keeping the jail docket.
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The City of Collins site: the police department, the municipal court, the city ordinances and budgets, with the city clerk keeping the board minutes and answering Public Records Act requests.
Open official site City of CollinsCourt records
PACER, the federal courts' records system: civil, criminal and bankruptcy case dockets and filings from the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, searched by name or case number for a small per page fee, with written opinions free.
Open official site Mississippi Federal CasesProperty records
County property tax data from the Mississippi Department of Revenue: the annual tax rolls, millage rates, assessed values and homestead exemption data reported by each county; the parcel records themselves are kept by the county tax assessor.
Open official site Mississippi property tax data (Department of Revenue)Police & jail
The Mississippi Sex Offender Registry from the Department of Public Safety: registered offenders by name, county, city or zip code, with photos and addresses.
Open official site Mississippi sex offender registryPolice & jail
The Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search: people in state custody by name or MDOC number, with the location, sentence and tentative release date.
Open official site Mississippi corrections offender searchPolice & jail
The Criminal Information Center of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety: how to request a statewide criminal history record check by fingerprint, and who may obtain one.
Open official site Mississippi criminal history record checkState courts
Mississippi Electronic Courts, the state judiciary case system: filings from the participating circuit, chancery and county courts, with the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals dockets on the courts site. MEC access takes a registered account.
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Mississippi birth, death, marriage and divorce records from the State Department of Health Vital Records office, ordered online, by mail or in person, with birth and death records from 1912.
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Unclaimed property held by the Mississippi State Treasury: dormant accounts, uncashed checks and other property, searched and claimed online by name.
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Local record guide
Local profile
Collins, a place of 2,342 people, is the seat of Covington County. Court and property records sit with Covington County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Collins's own offices are in the cards above, and our Covington 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 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 1 hole drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
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 state says it has no underground mines.
Collins sits over a mapped coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. 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 town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by MDEQ Office of Geology, Mining and Reclamation Division and linked below.
Mississippi 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 14 investigations with a Collins address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $150,752 in back wages agreed for 101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| County of Covington | 1 | $127,012 | 40 |
| Pick's Restaurant, Inc. | 1 | $7,369 | 14 |
| Pickering Inns, Inc. | 1 | $7,359 | 14 |
| R & R Foods Collins, LLC | 1 | $1,648 | 18 |
| Russell Restaurants of Collins, Inc. | 1 | $448 | 7 |
| JFM Incorporated | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Covington County Hospital | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Culpepper Enterprises, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Craft Berry Farm | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Mitchell Family Farm, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Collins, by back wages agreed; 2 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Mississippi wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in Collins are recorded by the Covington County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Covington County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Mississippi come from the state vital records office, Mississippi 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.