Indiana, Allen County
Where Fort Wayne's records are kept. Fort Wayne has its own city government, police department and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Fort Wayne's own offices, along with State of Indiana offices; the Allen County offices are on our Allen County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Official website of the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, at Citizens Square, 200 East Berry Street, with 311 service, agendas and documents, garbage and recycling, permits, payments and road closures.
Open official site City of Fort WaynePolice & jail
Fort Wayne Police Department site with an activity log, crime statistics, forms and requests, records, online crime reporting, vehicle releases, cold cases, missing persons and Crime Stoppers.
Open official site Fort Wayne Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Fort Wayne police reports and law enforcement recordings are requested only through the city's Next Request portal with a valid email, then reviewed for release under Indiana's Access to Public Records Act.
Open official site Fort Wayne Police Obtain Police ReportsCity records
The elected Fort Wayne City Clerk at 200 East Berry Street, Suite 110, keeps the city's official records, legislation and minutes, coordinates City Council meetings and handles parking enforcement.
Open official site Fort Wayne City ClerkCity records
Fort Wayne public records portal on NextRequest for police reports, city public records and subpoena production, covering the Fort Wayne Police Department and the Consolidated Communications Partnership 911 center.
Open official site City of Fort Wayne Records RequestsPolice & jail
FBI national most wanted criminals, search for Fort Wayne area subjects.
Open official site FBI Most WantedVital records
Certified Indiana birth, death and fetal death certificates, $10 for a birth and $8 for a death copy, issued to people with direct interest; births are on file from 1907 and deaths from 1900.
Open official site Indiana Department of Health Division of Vital RecordsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
State agency that keeps the Indiana State Archives, with records from the territorial period to today, and sets retention schedules for state and local offices; archive visits and tours can be arranged.
Open official site Indiana Archives and Records AdministrationCounty court
Bankruptcy court for northern Indiana with offices in South Bend, Fort Wayne and Hammond and a Lafayette location, all reached at (574) 968-2265 on weekdays.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of IndianaCounty court
Indiana Office of Judicial Administration search of cases that are not confidential, in courts using the Odyssey system, including appellate courts, by case or citation number, party name or attorney.
Open official site Indiana Courts Case Search (MyCase)Everything else, organized
18 more Fort Wayne sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Fort Wayne, a place of 263,886 people, is the seat of Allen County. Court and property records sit with Allen County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Indiana. Fort Wayne's own offices are in the cards above, and our Allen 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 4 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 3 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 5 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite.
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. The DNR subsidence insurance page (www.in.gov/dnr/reclamation/mine-subsidence/subsidence-insurance) says the Division of Reclamation fills subsidence holes but does not pay for structural damage, which is what the fund is for.
Indiana 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 331 investigations with a Fort Wayne address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,916,236 in back wages agreed for 2,797 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAS Inc | 1 | $126,162 | 95 |
| KPC Distributor, Inc. | 1 | $106,693 | 162 |
| Joanna's Family Restaurant II Inc. | 1 | $90,073 | 10 |
| Guerrero, Inc. | 2 | $85,975 | 35 |
| The ARC of Northeast Indiana | 1 | $78,928 | 79 |
| Hall Drive-Ins, Inc. | 1 | $74,626 | 28 |
| Real Restaurants, Inc | 1 | $65,754 | 41 |
| Great Wall Oriental Buffet, Inc | 1 | $63,777 | 9 |
| Statewide Trucking, Inc. | 2 | $54,601 | 45 |
| Faurencia Emissions Control Tech. USA, LLC. | 1 | $50,564 | 260 |
| Hsueh Y. Chin, Inc. | 1 | $50,117 | 12 |
| Prairie Quest, Inc. | 3 | $50,058 | 26 |
| AM Home Health Care, Inc. | 1 | $45,774 | 257 |
| Red River Waste Solutions, LP | 1 | $45,571 | 81 |
| 123, Inc. | 1 | $42,864 | 32 |
| Cebollas, Inc. | 3 | $41,449 | 25 |
| JMG Stores Inc. | 1 | $37,752 | 106 |
| Golden Matrix, LLC | 1 | $36,385 | 9 |
| Buckeye Hospitality Dupont, LLC | 1 | $34,804 | 6 |
| Fort Wayne Liquid Coatings, Inc. | 1 | $32,332 | 28 |
| Onkar Oil LLC | 1 | $32,064 | 14 |
| Grote Automotive, Inc. | 1 | $31,514 | 50 |
| Fort Wayne Roofing & Sheet Metal Corp. | 2 | $21,758 | 19 |
| Home Is Where The Heart Is, Let Me Help You H | 1 | $20,972 | 26 |
| L3 Harris Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $20,480 | 1 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 291 whose address on the record is in Fort Wayne; 65 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 266 more with smaller records are on the Indiana wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Indiana is run by the Indiana Election Division and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Fort Wayne.
Deeds for property in Fort Wayne are recorded by the Allen County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Allen County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Indiana come from the state vital records office, Indiana 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.