Missouri, Jasper County
Where Joplin's records are kept. Joplin has its own city government, police department, clerk's office and municipal court; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Joplin's own offices, along with State of Missouri offices; the Jasper County offices are on our Jasper County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
Joplin Police Department. Its records division at 303 E. 3rd Street handles police records and local background checks, which cost $5.00.
Open official site Joplin Police DepartmentCity records
The Joplin City Clerk oversees the records management of the city, prepares the City Council agenda and manages the historical records of City Council actions.
Open official site Joplin City ClerkCity records
The City of Joplin online form to request public information and records from city departments, sent to the City Clerk.
Open official site Joplin Public Information RequestMunicipal court
Joplin Municipal Court at 303 East 3rd Street hears city ordinance cases and supervises probation, community service and house arrest for its cases.
Open official site Joplin Municipal CourtMunicipal court
Search Joplin Municipal Court violations and pay them online through the court's payment portal. Office hours are Monday to Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm.
Open official site Joplin Municipal Court Case SearchPolice & 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 WantedCounty court
Missouri Case.net, run by the state judiciary, searches public court cases by litigant name, case number or filing date; its entries are a service, not the official court record.
Open official site Missouri Case.netVital records
Department of Health and Senior Services bureau issuing certified copies of Missouri births and deaths recorded since 1910, with a marriage and divorce registry since 1948 and 115 local offices that serve visitors in person.
Open official site Missouri Bureau 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
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 336 million pages of records, with online databases for births and deaths before 1910, death certificates from 1910 to 1975, naturalizations and soldiers' records.
Open official site Missouri State Archives ResearchCounty court
Bankruptcy section of the Western District of Missouri court site, with hearing calendars and docket dates, judges, forms, local rules and opinions, plus free discharge copies sent by email as a PDF.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of MissouriEverything else, organized
18 more Joplin sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Joplin, a place of 51,762 people, is in Jasper County, whose county seat is Carthage. Court and property records sit with Jasper County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Missouri. Joplin's own offices are in the cards above, and our Jasper 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 350 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 349 past producers, now closed, 1 processing plant, which is not a working; the old survey maps add 283 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 11 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Lead, Zinc; crushed stone.
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.
Missouri 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 150 investigations with a Joplin address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $936,025 in back wages agreed for 2,167 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emery Sapp & Sons, Inc. | 6 | $513,131 | 308 |
| El Vallarta of Joplin, LLC | 1 | $167,573 | 25 |
| Communication Solutions, LLC | 4 | $97,257 | 785 |
| Railroad Salvage & Restoration, Inc. | 2 | $54,089 | 68 |
| Jasper Products, LLC | 2 | $46,746 | 434 |
| Evans Painting Co LLC | 1 | $45,832 | 58 |
| Sitton Motor Lines, Inc. | 1 | $42,821 | 35 |
| Tokyo Japanese Steak House, Inc. | 1 | $40,816 | 20 |
| Northport Health Services of Missouri LLC | 1 | $35,499 | 30 |
| A.J.M. Packaging Corporation | 2 | $29,171 | 127 |
| Satterlee Mechanical Contracting Corporation | 1 | $28,903 | 20 |
| Vipal, Inc. | 1 | $25,598 | 36 |
| Quality Lawn, LLC | 1 | $23,271 | 36 |
| 1st Choice Heating Air And Refrigeration, LLC | 1 | $22,135 | 11 |
| US Netcom Corp. | 1 | $19,262 | 11 |
| Neal Group Construction, LLC | 2 | $19,089 | 9 |
| Mojo Burger Company | 1 | $19,041 | 26 |
| Welborn Enterprises, Inc. | 2 | $18,886 | 17 |
| Zipz Energy LLC | 3 | $18,718 | 59 |
| Lube-N-Oil, Inc. | 1 | $18,069 | 19 |
| ASNL, Inc. | 1 | $13,899 | 18 |
| National Dish Installers, LLC | 1 | $13,518 | 17 |
| Auto Truck Transport Corportion | 1 | $13,386 | 21 |
| Stateline Custom Cabinets LLC | 1 | $12,352 | 7 |
| Mikel-Brock Investment Group LLC | 2 | $11,683 | 28 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 127 whose address on the record is in Joplin; 42 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 102 more with smaller records are on the Missouri wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Missouri is run by the Missouri Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Joplin.
Deeds for property in Joplin are recorded by the Jasper County Recorder of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Jasper County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Missouri come from the state vital records office, Missouri Bureau of Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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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.