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Find the right office in Cowley 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. Cowley County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Cowley County.
Police Departments. Cowley County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Cowley County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments such as the Winfield Police Department and the Arkansas City Police Department. Each department has jurisdiction over its respective city, while the Sheriff's Office covers the broader county area.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Cowley County Sheriff's Office, located at 311 East 9th Avenue in Winfield, KS 67156, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Cowley County.
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 6 mine sites inside the county: 5 sites producing when the record was made, 1 site with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 122 holes drawn inside the county, 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. Underground coal mining in Kansas was concentrated in Cherokee and Crawford Counties.
Cowley County lies on the edge of 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 39 investigations in Cowley County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $252,306 in back wages agreed for 375 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Maguey, Inc #2 | Winfield | 3 | $73,459 | 25 |
| Biederman's Bistro & Caterin | Winfield | 1 | $60,193 | 13 |
| Del Sol Inc | Arkansas City | 2 | $52,998 | 19 |
| C Store Operations, LLC | Winfield | 3 | $16,647 | 36 |
| Campbell's Restaurant | Winfield | 1 | $14,179 | 7 |
| Twin Rivers Developmental Supports, Inc | Arkansas City | 2 | $9,095 | 70 |
| Webster Combustion Technology, LLC | Winfield | 1 | $4,134 | 2 |
| Cumbernauld Village, Inc. | Winfield | 1 | $4,087 | 28 |
| Paseo Petroleum LLC | Winfield | 2 | $3,331 | 24 |
| Winfield Hospitality, Inc. | Winfield | 1 | $2,909 | 3 |
| Winfield Rest Haven, Inc. | Winfield | 2 | $2,701 | 32 |
| The Ridge Restaurant, LLC | Winfield | 1 | $2,437 | 69 |
| Darco, Inc | Winfield | 1 | $2,115 | 16 |
| Kistler Tire & Auto LLC | Udall | 1 | $891 | 5 |
| Quality Care Animal Hospital LLC. | Arkansas City | 1 | $372 | 2 |
| Soop Group, LLC | Winfield | 1 | $261 | 5 |
| Adiyogi Properties | Arkansas City | 1 | $148 | 3 |
| Ramirez Land & Properties | Arkansas City | 1 | $141 | 2 |
| Winfield LTC Opco, LLC | Winfield | 1 | $28 | 1 |
| Jaya, Inc | Arkansas City | 3 | $0 | 0 |
| Gottigos | Arkansas City | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Archer Daniels Midland Company | Arkansas City | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Newell Rubbermaid, Inc | Winfield | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| The Southwestern College, Inc. | Winfield | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| RCB Bank | Arkansas City | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 29 on the Cowley County record; 10 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 4 more with smaller records are on the Kansas wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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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 Cowley County are kept by the Cowley 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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