North Carolina, Cumberland County
Where Fayetteville's records are kept. Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville's own offices, along with State of North Carolina offices; the Cumberland County offices are on our Cumberland County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Based in Raleigh with sites in Manteo and Asheville, the State Archives of North Carolina handles copy orders and research requests and offers an online catalog plus over 90,000 free digitized items.
Open official site State Archives of North CarolinaCounty court
Eastern North Carolina's bankruptcy court sits in Raleigh and Greenville, both reached by mail at P.O. Box 791, Raleigh; it lists hearing calendars, public sales, unclaimed funds and trustee contacts.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of North CarolinaCounty court
The North Carolina Judicial Branch offers its Portal to search court records, find court dates and pay citations, along with a county courthouse directory, court forms and criminal background check requests.
Open official site North Carolina Judicial BranchVital records
Within the state Center for Health Statistics, North Carolina Vital Records registers births, deaths, marriages and divorces and issues certified copies by order, with in person service by appointment only.
Open official site North Carolina Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Current inmates, people on probation or parole and past offenders can be searched by name, offender number or birth date at the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, which lists escapes, absconders and releases.
Open official site NC DAC Offender Public InformationPolice & jail
North Carolina DOJ missing persons for Fayetteville.
Open official site Fayetteville North Carolina Missing PersonsPolice & jail
FBI Charlotte Field Office listing of fugitives wanted for violent and nonviolent crimes, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, and cases where agents want information.
Open official site FBI Charlotte Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
State Bureau of Investigation registry built from records that county sheriffs in all 100 counties enter; email alerts flag an offender moving within 1, 3 or 5 miles of an address you register.
Open official site North Carolina Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
NC courts guide to background checks: a certified single county search from the clerk of superior court for $25 with form AOC-CR-314, or free uncertified searches on courthouse public computers.
Open official site North Carolina Judicial Branch Criminal Background CheckCity records
Fayetteville city government at 433 Hay Street, with police reports, public records requests, permitting and inspections, code enforcement, planning and zoning, trash and recycling, bids and storm damage reporting.
Open official site City of FayettevillePolice & jail
The Fayetteville Police Department posts crime data and police reports, runs central records and forensic services, and publishes news on major cases in the city.
Open official site Fayetteville Police DepartmentCity records
Over three hundred personnel staff seventeen fire stations, with the Fire Marshal's Office, station locations, firefighter careers, crisis response dogs and the Fayetteville Fire Podcast.
Open official site Fayetteville Fire DepartmentEverything else, organized
14 more Fayetteville sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Fayetteville, a place of 208,501 people, is the seat of Cumberland County. Court and property records sit with Cumberland County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Carolina. Fayetteville's own offices are in the cards above, and our Cumberland 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 8 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 7 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 9 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Gold.
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. No abandoned mine inventory is published online.
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.
North Carolina 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.
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Voter registration in North Carolina is run by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Fayetteville.
Businesses that operate in Fayetteville register with the North Carolina Secretary of State, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Fayetteville requires one, comes from the town or Cumberland County.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in North Carolina come from the state vital records office, North Carolina Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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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.