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Court records
Phone contacts for the divisions of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, with links to Search ARCourts case records, circuit clerk and judge directories, and self help resources.
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Claim It Arkansas is the unclaimed property program of the Arkansas Auditor of State, which collects money reported by banks, businesses and agencies and returns it to owners who file a claim.
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Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center sex offender registry by address, city, county, zip code or name, and sign up for notices when an offender moves near an address.
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Current posting of fugitives and absconders in the state of Arkansas.
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How and where to request records from Arkansas FBI.
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Search online calendar of pending active criminal cases.
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Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center for registered offenders by name or location.
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Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Arkansas Secretary of State.
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The Arkansas Attorney General is the state's lawyer and chief law enforcement officer, issuing legal opinions and handling consumer and robocall complaints. Court records are kept by the Arkansas Judiciary and county circuit clerks.
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Apply for or renew an Arkansas concealed handgun carry license and check its status, and find State Police services such as highway safety programs and criminal background checks.
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Find general info and check name availability with the Arkansas Secretary of State.
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Verify processional and state issued licenses to individuals and entities.
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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Crawford County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Crawford County.
Police Departments. Crawford County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Crawford County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments. Each department has jurisdiction within its respective city limits, while the Sheriff's Office covers the broader unincorporated areas.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Crawford County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Crawford County, operating under Sheriff Daniel Perry. Current county Sheriff directory. Inmate information and jail rosters can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website or by calling the detention center directly.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
The Crawford County Detention Center is at 4235 Alma Highway, Van Buren, AR 72956, telephone 479-474-1721. The Sheriff publishes an inmate-search and bond-information route. Detention location. Inmate-information instructions. Municipalities issue their own building permits within city limits. Crawford County Regional Chamber of Commerce, based in Van Buren (813 Main Street, 479-474-2761, crawfordcountychamber.com), provides resources for new and existing businesses, including networking opportunities, business referrals, and economic data. Crawford County Clerk handles marriage licensing at 300 Main Street, Room 7, Van Buren, AR 72956, telephone 479-474-1312. Birth and death certificate requests follow Arkansas Department of Health instructions and its local health-unit routes; the reviewed Crawford directory does not identify an Ozark branch. County Clerk duties and contact. Birth certificates. Death certificates.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 9 mine sites inside the county: 4 past producers, now closed, 4 sites producing when the record was made, 1 processing plant, which is not a working; the old survey maps add 7 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Stone; Flagstone.
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.
Crawford County lies on the edge of the Western Region coal field and the coal there is low 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 Arkansas DEQ Coal Program (abandoned coal mine reclamation) and linked below.
Arkansas 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 70 investigations in Crawford County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $302,350 in back wages agreed for 750 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilowatt Electric, Inc | Alma | 2 | $99,140 | 26 |
| El Palenque Mexican Restaurant Inc | Van Buren | 3 | $38,404 | 46 |
| J & M Railway Services, Inc. | Chester | 1 | $28,708 | 8 |
| Rick Mooney Construction Inc | Natural Dam | 1 | $23,224 | 6 |
| Frank's Italian Restaurant, Inc. | Van Buren | 1 | $15,759 | 10 |
| Sparks Health System | Van Buren | 1 | $14,966 | 14 |
| Dancor Transit, Inc. | Van Buren | 1 | $10,525 | 6 |
| La Purisima, Inc. | Van Buren | 1 | $10,261 | 8 |
| Catfish Hole Alma, Inc. | Alma | 2 | $8,193 | 37 |
| Partrship: Robert Makepeace and Jeffory Craig | Van Buren | 1 | $7,541 | 6 |
| Crossno Parcel Service Inc | Van Buren | 1 | $6,995 | 5 |
| Abilities Unlimited of Fort Smith, Inc | Van Buren | 3 | $5,096 | 165 |
| Spirit Medical, Inc. | Van Buren | 1 | $4,693 | 2 |
| AFCO Steel, LLC | Van Buren | 2 | $4,644 | 49 |
| Oxane Materials LLC | Van Buren | 1 | $4,479 | 47 |
| Knesek Group, Inc. | Van Buren | 1 | $2,774 | 6 |
| Hudson Excavation, Inc | Van Buren | 1 | $2,237 | 5 |
| AAQ Management, Inc. | Alma | 1 | $2,225 | 4 |
| Wilson Brothers Construction, Incorporated | Alma | 1 | $1,941 | 50 |
| Southwest EMS, Inc. | Van Buren | 5 | $1,929 | 25 |
| Our Own Little World, Inc. | Alma | 1 | $1,885 | 11 |
| Wesley C. McCabe | Alma | 1 | $1,400 | 4 |
| 64 Super Stop, LLC | Van Buren | 2 | $1,050 | 11 |
| Pepper Source Ltd. | Van Buren | 1 | $932 | 10 |
| Time Striping, Inc. | Van Buren | 1 | $792 | 6 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 52 on the Crawford County record; 15 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 27 more with smaller records are on the Arkansas wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
The Crawford Circuit Clerk and Ex-Officio Recorder. keeps Circuit Court files and recorded land instruments. Its street address is 317 Main Street, Van Buren; its mailing address is P.O. Box 608, Van Buren, AR 72957, and telephone is 479-474-1821. The County Clerk. is a separate office at 300 Main Street, Room 7, Van Buren, AR 72956, telephone 479-474-1312. Give the office name rather than sending an undifferentiated clerk request.
The County Clerk handles marriage licensing, voter registration, county financial records and Quorum Court ordinances, resolutions and meeting minutes. The Circuit Clerk handles court proceedings, including domestic relations and probate, and acts as the land recorder. A divorce decree therefore follows the court route, while a marriage-license inquiry begins with the County Clerk. Their different responsibilities explain why a similar family name can appear in records maintained at both addresses. Sources: crawfordcountyar.gov; crawfordcountyar.gov
The Circuit Clerk records deeds, mortgages, liens, surety bonds and other property instruments and links a separate land-record service. Identify the parties, legal description and any known recording reference when requesting an existing instrument. The office's ordinary land-recording schedule is $15 for the first page and $5 for each additional page. It also describes additional charges for multiple instruments in one document and for approved nonstandard documents, so the page calculation is not always the full recording total. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The published copy schedule distinguishes copies made in the office at $0.50 per page from copies mailed or faxed at $1 per page, with advance payment for the latter service. These are delivery-specific copy prices. The source does not establish a complete certified-deed-copy total, and its separate financing-statement copy rows are inconsistent with one another. Use the ordinary-copy row for that product and request a separate quote when certification or a UCC search is needed. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
For a new deed, the Clerk lists execution, legibility, margin and tax-statement-address requirements. It asks for a self-addressed stamped envelope to return recorded material and explains that a cover sheet can add a page charge. Re-recording requires prior approval under the office instructions. These steps concern accepting a new instrument; they should not be imposed on someone who is only identifying and ordering a document already recorded. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Assessor's office. locates taxable property, identifies ownership, establishes taxable values and maintains the assessment roll. It links real-estate search and GIS resources separately from the recording office. The address is 300 Main Street, Rooms 8 and 8-b, Van Buren, AR 72956. The real-estate telephone is 479-471-3245; personal-property inquiries use 479-474-1751. Both divisions publish hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Use the assessment and map references to identify the parcel when a street address or owner name is incomplete. Keep the parcel identifier, legal description and any associated deed reference with your notes. The Assessor's valuation and exemption records concern tax administration, while the Circuit Clerk's recorded instrument documents the filed transaction. A question about a building characteristic or assessed value should be distinguished from a request for a mortgage or deed image. Sources: crawfordcountyar.gov; crawfordcountyar.gov
The Circuit Clerk describes separate criminal, civil, domestic-relations, juvenile and probate records. Criminal files include the information filed by the prosecutor and related proceedings; civil files cover matters such as contract disputes, foreclosure and other court actions. Domestic-relations files include divorce, custody, paternity and support matters. Identify the division, case number and document wanted rather than requesting a background report from the court clerk. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Clerk links Arkansas Judiciary case search. for criminal, civil and domestic case information. Use an online case reference to identify the underlying file and ask the Clerk about a filed document or certified disposition. The county expressly says juvenile records are not open to the general public and identifies adoption records as closed. An online search route does not establish that those protected files or every document image will be available. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
For child-support payment records, the Clerk distinguishes payments made through the court registry from wage-withholding payments handled by the Arkansas Child Support Clearinghouse. Identify which payment route the order uses before asking for an account record. An order establishing support is part of a court file, while a payment history concerns the office that processed the payments. Combining both requests without naming the product can send the inquiry to the wrong service. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Circuit Clerk also retains decedent-estate filings and small-estate affidavits in its Probate Division. A publicly available estate filing and a protected adoption file are different requests even though the office lists both among its responsibilities. When researching a deceased owner whose name also appears in a land index, keep the court-file reference and recording reference separate. The estate proceeding can explain the court action, while the deed or other recorded instrument shows what was placed in the land records. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The County Clerk holds Quorum Court ordinances, resolutions and minutes, department budgets and county financial information. It also lists County Court records, annexations, contracts, agreements and board-appointment material among its holdings. The online document list groups meeting records by year. Identify the meeting date and whether you need an agenda, adopted minutes, an ordinance or an attachment; those are separate records even when they concern the same county action. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The County Clerk maintains voter-registration services and the administrative details for the Board of Election Commissioners. It links the Crawford County Election Commission. as a separate election-information resource. For a registration-record inquiry, begin with the County Clerk; for a published election notice or result, identify the election and consult the Commission's resources. Election-day or early-voting schedules should not be used as unverified general office hours. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Election Commission publishes its own office at 405 South Third Street, Van Buren, AR 72956, telephone 479-471-3222. Its stated responsibilities include preparing voting equipment, training poll workers, and tabulating and certifying results. That election-administration role differs from the County Clerk's voter-registration recordkeeping. Name the specific election and administrative record when asking the Commission for information, rather than sending every voter-related request to the same address. Source: crawford-county-elections.org
The Arkansas Department of Health birth-record instructions. establish the state certificate route and describe service through local health units. A birth certificate is not obtained from a second Crawford clerk office in Ozark. The County Clerk's published Crawford location is in Van Buren, and its listed vital-event role is marriage licensing. Use the state health authority for birth certificates and the county marriage office for a license record. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Department of Health death-record instructions. list $10 for the first copy and $8 for each additional copy of the same record ordered together. Eligibility and acceptable identification still apply, and online ordering has separate processing and identity-verification charges. A death certificate is distinct from an estate case or a death-related land instrument. The Circuit Clerk can hold those court or recording documents without becoming the issuer of the state death certificate. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The county's current Sheriff directory identifies Sheriff Daniel Perry at 4235 Alma Highway, Van Buren, AR 72956, telephone 479-474-2261. Use that Sheriff route for an agency report and identify the date, location and report number if known. A municipal police report remains with its originating department. The county directory supports the current Sheriff identity and address; it does not establish one general records-counter schedule. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Crawford County Detention Center. also lists 4235 Alma Highway, but its detention telephone is 479-474-1721. The Sheriff operates the facility for people committed by the courts and those awaiting trial. The detention source separates inmate visiting and commissary instructions from the main office contact. Do not use 317 Main Street as the current detention location: that address belongs to the Circuit Clerk in the reviewed county directory. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
The Sheriff's inmate-information instructions. provide an official route to the inmate search and bond information and caution that the online information may be incomplete or inaccurate. Use it to identify the custody record sought, then request the actual court filing from the appropriate clerk when the charge or disposition is the needed document. A booking entry and a judicial finding answer different questions, and an online listing should not be treated as the complete case file. Source: crawfordcountyar.gov
Where to go
Each office below was read on its own site. A field the office does not publish is left out rather than filled in from a directory.
Circuit Court divisions, probate and recorded land instruments.
Office page: crawfordcountyar.gov
Marriage licensing, county financial and legislative records, voter registration.
Office page: crawfordcountyar.gov
Assessment rolls, real estate, personal property and GIS.
Office page: crawfordcountyar.gov
Sheriff law-enforcement reports and department services.
Office page: crawfordcountyar.gov
Sheriff-operated custody, inmate-search and bond-information routes.
Office page: crawfordcountysheriff.org
Voter-registration records; County Clerk links Election Commission.
Office page: crawfordcountyar.gov
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Crawford County Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Crawford County. Ask that agency for its record. Under Arkansas Code 4-75-102 (Act 450 of 2021), a person may ask a publish for pay website in writing to remove his or her booking photograph; the site must remove it within five business days and may not charge a fee for removal.
The Arkansas criminal history record comes from the Arkansas State Police. Online search through the Arkansas State Police systems on ark.org: Criminal Background Checks with consent or legal mandate, or Open Criminal History for any other purpose. Fee: $22 per search for checks mandated by law or with the subject's signed consent; $24 per search on the Open Criminal History system for other personal searches.
Search the Arkansas Sex Offender Registry (Arkansas Crime Information Center), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county clerk or through the Arkansas Secretary of State. Arkansas has no online voter registration. Submit the application to a voter registration agency or mail it no later than 30 days before the election; the postmark counts as the submission date.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Crawford County are kept by the Crawford County Circuit Clerk, as ex officio county recorder. Property values are set by the County Assessor, and tax bills come from the County Collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Arkansas come from the Arkansas Department of Health, Vital Records. The Department of Health offers vital records services in every county through its Local Health Units, which take walk in birth certificate requests. Online through vitalrecords.egov.com, by phone toll free at (866) 209-9482, by mail to Vital Records, Slot 44, 4815 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72205, or in person at a Local Health Unit or the Little Rock office. Fee: $12 for the first copy of a birth record and $10 for each additional copy of the same record ordered at the same time.
Business entity filings are searched with the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services.
The Circuit Clerk acts as Ex-Officio Recorder at 317 Main Street, Van Buren, telephone 479-474-1821. The County Clerk at 300 Main Street has different responsibilities. Circuit Clerk and Recorder. County Clerk.
The Circuit Clerk lists $15 for the first page and $5 for each additional page, with other charges possible for multiple instruments or approved nonstandard documents. Recording schedule.
The Circuit Clerk lists $0.50 per page for copies in the office and $1 per page for mailed or faxed copies, which require advance payment. Certification is a separate unestablished total in this package. Copy prices.
The County Clerk holds Quorum Court ordinances, resolutions and minutes and publishes meeting documents by year. Identify the ordinance or meeting date and record type. County legislative records.
The Assessor publishes 479-471-3245 for real estate and 479-474-1751 for personal property, at 300 Main Street, Rooms 8 and 8-b, Van Buren. Assessor contact.
The Clerk distinguishes its court-registry payments from wage withholding handled by the Arkansas Child Support Clearinghouse. Identify the payment route before requesting a payment history. Child-support records.
The detention source lists 4235 Alma Highway, Van Buren, telephone 479-474-1721. The county Circuit Clerk lists 317 Main Street. Detention contact. Circuit Clerk contact.
The County Clerk lists marriage licensing among its duties. Birth-certificate requests follow Arkansas Department of Health instructions and its local health-unit service routes. County Clerk duties. State birth-record route.
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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.