California, Contra Costa County
Where El Cerrito's records are kept. El Cerrito has its own city government and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include El Cerrito's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Contra Costa County offices are on our Contra Costa County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
County court
California Department of Justice rules for organizations allowed to run fingerprint based criminal record checks on job, license or volunteer applicants, such as schools, nonprofits and in home care agencies.
Open official site California DOJ Applicant AgenciesProperty records
California Board of Equalization property tax and records for El Cerrito.
Open official site El Cerrito California Property RecordsState 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
Sits in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa and San Jose and posts judges' and 341 meeting calendars, local rules, forms and guidance for people filing without an attorney.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital 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
FBI San Francisco Field Office posters for wanted fugitives, kidnapped and missing persons, cyber suspects and cases where agents ask the public for information; tips can be sent through tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI San Francisco Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & 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 El Cerrito 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
City of El Cerrito official site at 10890 San Pablo Avenue, with the city clerk, the police department and the records and permits the city keeps.
Open official site City of El CerritoPolice & jail
Law enforcement services 10900 San Pablo Avenue El Cerrito, CA 94530 Phone: 510-215-4400
Open official site El Cerrito Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
14 more El Cerrito sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
El Cerrito, a place of 25,962 people, is in Contra Costa County, whose county seat is Martinez. Court and property records sit with Contra Costa County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. El Cerrito's own offices are in the cards above, and our Contra Costa 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 USGS mineral file records 12 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 12 of them worked out or abandoned; the USGS topographic mine features add 2 features mapped inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts, adits or tunnels, digitised from the old survey sheets. The minerals the records name are Clay; crushed stone; Stone.
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.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in El Cerrito are recorded by the Contra Costa County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Contra Costa 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.