Arkansas, Sebastian County
Where Fort Smith's records are kept. Fort Smith 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 Fort Smith's own offices, along with State of Arkansas offices; the Sebastian County offices are on our Sebastian County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
County court
One bankruptcy court serves both Arkansas districts from Little Rock and a Fayetteville divisional office, which takes no cash; it posts court calendars, forms and opinions, and staff cannot give legal advice.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern and Western Districts of ArkansasCounty court
Website of the Arkansas courts and Administrative Office of the Courts, with Search ARCourts for case records, appellate opinions, eFiling, traffic ticket payment, court forms and circuit clerk directories.
Open official site Arkansas JudiciaryVital records
Arkansas Department of Health section for ordering birth, death, marriage and divorce records, amending birth or death certificates and requesting adoption files, run from 4815 W. Markham in Little Rock.
Open official site Arkansas Department of Health Certificates and RecordsPolice & jail
Search people in Arkansas Department of Corrections custody by ADC number, name, county, facility, offense, race, gender or age after agreeing to the disclaimer, or download the full inmate database.
Open official site Arkansas Department of Corrections Inmate SearchPolice & jail
Run by the Arkansas Crime Information Center within the Department of Public Safety: no waiting period to report a missing person, monthly missing person reports since 2016, and a link to the Never Forgotten database.
Open official site Arkansas Crime Information Center Missing Persons InformationPolice & jail
Fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnappings and missing person cases posted by the FBI Little Rock Field Office, along with cases where the Bureau is asking the public for information.
Open official site FBI Little Rock Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
Arkansas Crime Information Center search of publishable sex offenders by name, address, city, county or ZIP code, with a map view and email alerts when an offender's address changes.
Open official site Arkansas Sex Offender Registry (ACIC)Police & jail
Arkansas State Police online checks: one system for searches required by law or made with signed consent at $22 each, and Open Criminal History for other personal searches at $24.
Open official site Arkansas State Police Criminal Background ChecksFederal
Frequently requested Census Bureau statistics for Fort Smith city, Arkansas in QuickFacts: population, business and geography facts for a community of 89,142 at the 2020 Census.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Fort Smith city government with bill pay, the code of ordinances, board meetings, records requests, issue reporting, the CityView permit portal, address lookup, a city ward map, GIS and job openings.
Open official site City of Fort SmithPolice & jail
Fort Smith Police Department, with the incident reports, record requests and contacts the department publishes.
Open official site Fort Smith Police DepartmentCity records
The department protects lives, property and the environment, with fire station locations, administration, emergency operations and Fire Marshal's Office details, safety tips, recruiting and a citizens fire portal.
Open official site Fort Smith Fire DepartmentEverything else, organized
18 more Fort Smith sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Fort Smith, a place of 89,142 people, is the seat of Sebastian County. Court and property records sit with Sebastian County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Arkansas. Fort Smith's own offices are in the cards above, and our Sebastian 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 3 past producers, now closed; the old survey maps add 8 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Clay.
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.
Fort Smith sits over 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 town. 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 275 investigations with a Fort Smith address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $927,993 in back wages agreed for 2,788 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Towing and Recovery, LLC | 3 | $73,216 | 31 |
| Federal Armament, LLC | 1 | $67,500 | 145 |
| Mi Casita Mexican Restaurant Inc | 4 | $56,524 | 38 |
| SHAC, Inc. | 3 | $46,414 | 23 |
| TEC, The Employment Company | 10 | $37,333 | 1,036 |
| Fort Smith HMA, LLC | 2 | $35,620 | 187 |
| Williamson General Contractors, Inc. | 1 | $35,344 | 66 |
| McCourt Manufacturing | 1 | $31,473 | 20 |
| Direct Workforce Inc. | 1 | $28,050 | 43 |
| Seamless Systems, Inc. | 1 | $27,370 | 19 |
| Arkansas Glass & Mirror Co. | 3 | $26,312 | 8 |
| Methodist Nursing Home of Fort Smith, Inc. | 1 | $24,889 | 91 |
| Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. | 1 | $24,782 | 4 |
| Mike's Masonry, LLC | 1 | $23,475 | 55 |
| Ark 1919 | 1 | $19,906 | 71 |
| Lins Corporation Inc | 1 | $19,084 | 23 |
| El Lorito, Inc | 1 | $17,760 | 8 |
| Structural Systems Inc. | 1 | $17,154 | 12 |
| Fire Systems Technology Inc. | 1 | $17,118 | 8 |
| Affordable Data Service, Inc. | 1 | $16,974 | 4 |
| R.W. & Son Pipeline Construction, Inc. | 1 | $16,338 | 20 |
| Harps Food Stores Inc. | 3 | $14,980 | 3 |
| Pro Clean Janitorial Service, Inc | 1 | $14,934 | 50 |
| Baldor Electric Company | 3 | $14,809 | 7 |
| Amyco, Inc. | 1 | $14,435 | 31 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 218 whose address on the record is in Fort Smith; 54 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 193 more with smaller records are on the Arkansas wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Arkansas is run by the Arkansas Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, polling places and the local election office for Fort Smith. Arkansas has no online voter registration: the signed paper application goes to the Sebastian County Clerk in person or by mail.
Deeds for property in Fort Smith are recorded by the Sebastian County Circuit Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Sebastian County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Arkansas come from the state vital records office, Arkansas Department of 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.