Missouri, Boone County
Where Columbia's records are kept. Columbia has its own city government, police department, municipal court and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Columbia's own offices, along with State of Missouri offices; the Boone County offices are on our Boone County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
City of Columbia, Missouri, government site with bills and payments, permit and registration forms, issue reporting, utility customer service, transparency records and city news, with offices at 701 E. Broadway.
Open official site City of ColumbiaPolice & jail
Columbia Police Department at 600 E. Walnut Street, with crime statistics, police data and records, press releases, employment and information on the department's ALPR cameras.
Open official site Columbia Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Columbia Police data, reporting and forms: dispatch calls for service, a 911 incidents map, vehicle stop data by year, uniform crime reporting, district meeting slides and surveillance technology reports.
Open official site CPD Data, Reporting & FormsMunicipal court
Columbia Municipal Court at 600 E. Broadway, a division of the Boone County Circuit Court, hears city ordinance cases and posts dockets, fine payment, court forms and record requests.
Open official site Columbia Municipal CourtCity records
The Columbia City Clerk serves as secretary to the City Council and legal custodian of official records, including the Code of Ordinances, council minutes, ordinances and resolutions.
Open official site City ClerkCity records
Columbia takes public records requests through its NextRequest portal, where requesters can search existing records, track requests and receive files; the page lists records custodians by department.
Open official site Public Record RequestPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedCounty court
Missouri Case.net, run by the state judiciary, searches public court cases by litigant name, case number or filing date; its entries are a service, not the official court record.
Open official site Missouri Case.netVital records
Department of Health and Senior Services bureau issuing certified copies of Missouri births and deaths recorded since 1910, with a marriage and divorce registry since 1948 and 115 local offices that serve visitors in person.
Open official site Missouri Bureau of Vital RecordsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 336 million pages of records, with online databases for births and deaths before 1910, death certificates from 1910 to 1975, naturalizations and soldiers' records.
Open official site Missouri State Archives ResearchCounty court
Bankruptcy section of the Western District of Missouri court site, with hearing calendars and docket dates, judges, forms, local rules and opinions, plus free discharge copies sent by email as a PDF.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of MissouriEverything else, organized
17 more Columbia sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Columbia, a place of 126,254 people, is the seat of Boone County. Court and property records sit with Boone County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Missouri. Columbia's own offices are in the cards above, and our Boone 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 17 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 12 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 32 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are crushed stone; Fire Clay (Refractory).
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.
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.
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.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Missouri is run by the Missouri Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Columbia.
Deeds for property in Columbia are recorded by the Boone County Recorder of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Boone County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Missouri come from the state vital records office, Missouri Bureau of 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.