Mississippi, Washington County
Where Greenville's records are kept. Greenville has its own city government, police department and fire department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Greenville's own offices, along with State of Mississippi offices; the Washington County offices are on our Washington County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
State archives guide to family research: death records from 1912 to 1943 on microfiche (no birth records), county marriage books on microfilm, census returns, Dawes Rolls and Confederate pension files.
Open official site Mississippi Department of Archives and History GenealogyCounty court
Bankruptcy court for north Mississippi at the Thad Cochran U.S. Courthouse in Aberdeen, with hearings only in Oxford and Greenville. Posts court news, notices and vacancies.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of MississippiCounty court
Website of the Mississippi courts with Supreme Court and Court of Appeals dockets and briefs, appellate opinions since 1996 and live oral arguments; trial court files sit in the subscriber, fee based PAMEC portal.
Open official site State of Mississippi JudiciaryVital records
MSDH Bureau of Vital Records in Ridgeland keeps Mississippi birth and death records and takes orders for birth, death and marriage certificates and divorce record searches. Window open weekdays 8 to 4.
Open official site Mississippi State Department of Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Mississippi Department of Corrections search for people in its custody: enter an inmate's name or MDOC ID number to pull up the record.
Open official site Mississippi Department of Corrections Inmate SearchPolice & jail
MBI Human Trafficking and Special Victims Unit page on AMBER and missing person alerts. Police can request a missing person BOLO flyer through the Fusion Center at 1-888-4SAFE-MS.
Open official site Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Missing PersonsPolice & jail
Mississippi DPS registry searchable by offender name, by distance from an address or by Mississippi ZIP code after accepting the disclaimer. SOR hotline 601-987-1540.
Open official site Mississippi Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center handles state criminal history record checks and the forms needed to request one.
Open official site Mississippi Criminal Information CenterCity records
Greenville's city site for paying water bills, the Get Heard action line, the mayor's office, City Council and boards, the city clerk, municipal court, elections, police, fire and the code of ordinances.
Open official site City of GreenvillePolice & jail
Post Office Box 1700 Jackson, MS 39215-1700 Tel. 601-364-1101
Open official site Criminal History Record Checks and DepositoryPolice & jail
Greenville Police Department, with the incident reports, record requests and contacts the department publishes.
Open official site Greenville Police DepartmentCity records
The largest fire department in the Mississippi Delta, with eighty nine members in eight stations including headquarters at 532 Central Avenue, about 1,200 calls a year and the Old No. 1 Firehouse Museum.
Open official site Greenville Fire DepartmentEverything else, organized
12 more Greenville sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Greenville, a place of 29,670 people, is the seat of Washington County. Court and property records sit with Washington County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Greenville's own offices are in the cards above, and our Washington 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 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made.
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 state says it has no underground mines.
Greenville sits over a mapped coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. 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 MDEQ Office of Geology, Mining and Reclamation Division and linked below.
Mississippi 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 50 investigations with a Greenville address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $451,092 in back wages agreed for 507 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Care Nursing Inc. | 1 | $157,106 | 91 |
| Sorrels Transportation Company, Inc. | 1 | $80,980 | 49 |
| Chawla Ventures Inc | 2 | $31,387 | 156 |
| City of Greenville, MS | 1 | $28,656 | 5 |
| Sorrells Transportation Company, Inc. | 1 | $27,016 | 28 |
| Gracewood Farms | 1 | $20,320 | 4 |
| Retzer Resources, Inc. | 1 | $17,624 | 11 |
| Oakes Automotive, Inc. | 1 | $12,918 | 5 |
| South East Foods, Inc | 1 | $12,816 | 71 |
| Scoops Ice Cream & Grille LLC | 1 | $11,113 | 3 |
| Washington County | 1 | $10,671 | 7 |
| Oakes Automotive of Greenville, Inc. | 1 | $9,028 | 12 |
| Capstone Partners | 1 | $8,096 | 8 |
| A & A Home Health Equipment, Inc. | 1 | $7,572 | 33 |
| PLC Professional Staffing Solutions, LLC | 1 | $5,875 | 3 |
| Airborne Security & Escort | 1 | $5,684 | 7 |
| Department of Human Service | 1 | $5,398 | 1 |
| Arms of Love Learning Center | 1 | $5,155 | 6 |
| Ephesus SDA Daycare Center | 1 | $3,181 | 1 |
| Retzer Resource, Inc. | 1 | $3,086 | 36 |
| Johnnie E. Walls, Jr. Law Firm P.A. | 1 | $2,842 | 6 |
| Delta Investors Group, LLC | 1 | $2,667 | 21 |
| El Toro, Inc. | 1 | $1,966 | 19 |
| RNL Enterprises, LLC | 1 | $1,201 | 13 |
| Edwards Security | 1 | $1,008 | 5 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 46 whose address on the record is in Greenville; 19 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 21 more with smaller records are on the Mississippi wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in Greenville are recorded by the Washington County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Washington County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Mississippi come from the state vital records office, Mississippi 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.