California, Nevada County
Where Grass Valley's records are kept. Grass Valley has its own city government, clerk's office and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Grass Valley's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Nevada County offices are on our Nevada County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState 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
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern 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
Order certified copies of California birth, death and marriage records from the state Office of Vital Records, with fees, forms and processing times.
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
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & 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 QuickFacts profile of Grass Valley city, California, population 14,016 at the 2020 Census, listing frequently requested statistics on residents, businesses and geography.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Grass Valley city government online: utility billing accounts, permits and business licenses, zoning information, city fees, environmental documents, council agendas and minutes, elections and police daily logs.
Open official site City of Grass ValleyCity records
Official public records 125 East Main St. Grass Valley, CA 95945 Phone: (530) 274-4310
Open official site Grass Valley City ClerkPolice & jail
Police services and information 129 South Auburn Street Grass Valley, CA 95945 Phone: (530) 477-4600 E -mail: info@gvpd.
Open official site Grass Valley Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
7 more Grass Valley sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Grass Valley, a place of 14,016 people, is in Nevada County, whose county seat is Nevada City. Court and property records sit with Nevada County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Grass Valley's own offices are in the cards above, and our Nevada 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 133 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 77 past producers, now closed, 43 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 1 site producing when the record was made, 12 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 9 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 8 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Gold; Chromium; Magnesite.
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.
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.
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.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 21 investigations with a Grass Valley address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $203,986 in back wages agreed for 66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDV Telecommunications, Inc | 3 | $154,403 | 38 |
| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center | 1 | $25,049 | 1 |
| Plaza Jalisco | 1 | $12,420 | 3 |
| Pacific Century Trading, Inc | 1 | $3,230 | 7 |
| Riebes Auto Parts LLC | 1 | $1,522 | 1 |
| Sowell Bros Inc. | 1 | $1,176 | 1 |
| Sakrid Partnership | 1 | $670 | 1 |
| Loggers Unlimited, Inc. | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| All Power, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Manouch and Debra Shirvanioun | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Gold Rush Burgers and BBQ | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Gold Country Transportation, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Grass Valley SH, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Gold Country Investment | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Skyler Electric Company, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Grass Valley, by back wages agreed; 3 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The California wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Grass Valley.
Deeds for property in Grass Valley are recorded by the Nevada County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Nevada 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.