North Carolina, Stokes County
Where King's records are kept. King has its own police department, fire department and parks department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include King's own offices, along with State of North Carolina offices; the Stokes County offices are on our Stokes County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The King Police Department has patrol, support services and criminal investigations divisions and publishes annual activity reports for the city in Stokes County.
Open official site King Police DepartmentCity records
King city government in Stokes County, posting council agendas, packets and minutes, public notices by year, planning services, forms and online utility payments.
Open official site City of King Fire DepartmentCity records
City of King Parks and Recreation page with Recreation Acres, Central Park and the dog park, online facility rentals through RecDesk and service project proposals. Contact 336-985-1141; City Hall: 229 S. Main Street.
Open official site King Parks and RecreationPolice & jail
NC courts guide to background checks: a certified single county search from the clerk of superior court for $25 with form AOC-CR-314, or free uncertified searches on courthouse public computers.
Open official site North Carolina Judicial Branch Criminal Background CheckCity records
Based in Raleigh with sites in Manteo and Asheville, the State Archives of North Carolina handles copy orders and research requests and offers an online catalog plus over 90,000 free digitized items.
Open official site State Archives of North CarolinaCounty court
Staffed offices in Greensboro and Winston-Salem serve this bankruptcy court, which posts court calendars, opinions, unclaimed funds details and notices of trustee sales and auctions alongside PACER case access.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of North CarolinaCounty court
The North Carolina Judicial Branch offers its Portal to search court records, find court dates and pay citations, along with a county courthouse directory, court forms and criminal background check requests.
Open official site North Carolina Judicial BranchVital records
Within the state Center for Health Statistics, North Carolina Vital Records registers births, deaths, marriages and divorces and issues certified copies by order, with in person service by appointment only.
Open official site North Carolina Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Current inmates, people on probation or parole and past offenders can be searched by name, offender number or birth date at the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, which lists escapes, absconders and releases.
Open official site NC DAC Offender Public InformationPolice & jail
North Carolina DOJ missing persons for King.
Open official site King North Carolina Missing PersonsPolice & jail
FBI Charlotte Field Office listing of fugitives wanted for violent and nonviolent crimes, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, and cases where agents want information.
Open official site FBI Charlotte Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
State Bureau of Investigation registry built from records that county sheriffs in all 100 counties enter; email alerts flag an offender moving within 1, 3 or 5 miles of an address you register.
Open official site North Carolina Sex Offender RegistryEverything else, organized
15 more King sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
King, a place of 7,197 people, is in Stokes County, whose county seat is Danbury. Court and property records sit with Stokes County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Carolina. King's own offices are in the cards above, and our Stokes County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 12 investigations with a King address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $40,808 in back wages agreed for 145 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinnacle Electric Company, Inc. | 1 | $20,058 | 7 |
| Universal Health Care/King, Inc. | 1 | $7,948 | 47 |
| ECA Millwork Inc | 1 | $2,654 | 3 |
| Northwest Funitiure & Appliance Inc | 1 | $2,362 | 5 |
| Robertson Familiy Farm Inc | 1 | $122 | 1 |
| Carolina Millworks Inc | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| C & R Concessions | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Boyles Land Managment | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in King, by back wages agreed; 2 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The North Carolina wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in North Carolina is run by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for King.
Deeds for property in King are recorded by the Stokes County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Stokes County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in North Carolina come from the state vital records office, North Carolina 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.