Mississippi, Forrest County
Where Hattiesburg's records are kept. Hattiesburg has its own city government, police department, municipal court and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Hattiesburg's own offices, along with State of Mississippi offices; the Forrest County offices are on our Forrest County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Official site of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi: the mayor and city council, city departments, the water bill payment portal and the Action Line for service requests.
Open official site City of HattiesburgPolice & jail
Hattiesburg Police Department at 701 James Street, founded in 1903: the department directory with records and detective lines, community policing programs and posted crime reports.
Open official site Hattiesburg Police DepartmentCity records
Records requests for the Hattiesburg Police Department go to its Records unit at 701 James Street; the section also carries the department's media reports on incidents and arrests.
Open official site HPD Public Records RequestsMunicipal court
Hattiesburg Municipal Court at 701 James Street hears misdemeanor arrests, traffic citations, personal affidavits and first appearances, and keeps a lobby computer for viewing misdemeanor convictions.
Open official site Hattiesburg Municipal CourtCity records
How to ask for City of Hattiesburg records under the Mississippi Public Records Act, in person or by email, through the Public Records Officer in the City Clerk's office at City Hall.
Open official site City of Hattiesburg Public Records RequestCity records
The City Clerk and Tax Division, second floor of City Hall at 200 Forrest Street, keeps city records and ordinances and handles voter registration, privilege tax licenses and golf cart registration.
Open official site City Clerk & Tax DivisionPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & 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 SearchVital 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 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 southern Mississippi with courthouses in Jackson and Gulfport and hearing sites in Hattiesburg and Natchez. Posts deadlines for reporting settlements and requesting hearing resets.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern 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 JudiciaryEverything else, organized
8 more Hattiesburg sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Hattiesburg, a place of 48,730 people, is the seat of Forrest County. Court and property records sit with Forrest County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Hattiesburg's own offices are in the cards above, and our Forrest 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 7 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 0 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 25 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
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.
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.
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.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in Hattiesburg are recorded by the Forrest County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Forrest 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.