Tennessee, Knox County
Where Knoxville's records are kept. Knoxville has its own city government and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Knoxville's own offices, along with State of Tennessee offices; the Knox County offices are on our Knox County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
Under the Tennessee Secretary of State, the State Library and Archives offers an online catalog, research guides for genealogists, the TeVA digital collections of maps and images, and the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Open official site Tennessee State Library and ArchivesCounty court
Federal bankruptcy court for East Tennessee with locations in Chattanooga, Greeneville, Knoxville and Winchester. Offers court calendars for each city, trustee 341 meeting details, local rules and general orders.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of TennesseeCounty court
The Administrative Office of the Courts in Nashville runs Tennessee's judiciary site, carrying appellate opinions and oral argument dockets, a courthouse finder, court clerks by county, forms and a self help center.
Open official site Tennessee Administrative Office of the CourtsVital records
Tennessee Department of Health office at 710 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, that registers and issues birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates; any county health department can issue birth and death certificates, ID required.
Open official site Tennessee Office of Vital RecordsPolice & jail
From the Tennessee Department of Correction and Board of Parole, this lookup finds felony offenders by name, TDOC ID or state ID number, with aliases optional; an official background check comes from TBI.
Open official site Tennessee Felony Offender InformationPolice & jail
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation clearinghouse listing active AMBER, Endangered Child, Silver and Endangered Young Adult alerts and missing children cases. Tips go to 1-800-TBI-FIND, and there is no waiting period to report someone missing.
Open official site Tennessee's Missing PersonsPolice & jail
Since 1993 the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has posted its Top 10 Most Wanted, fugitives sought for violent felonies or major drug trafficking in Tennessee, with rewards offered for tips.
Open official site Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Top 10 Most WantedPolice & jail
TBI public registry with an offender search, a map of registered offenders, email alerts and a list of wanted registry violators; questions go to 1-888-837-4170 or tbisormgr@tbi.tn.gov.
Open official site Tennessee Sex Offender RegistryState records
TBI name based check of Tennessee criminal history: misdemeanor and felony arrests reported by fingerprint, no juvenile records unless tried as adults; $29.00 per request, nonrefundable, paid by credit card.
Open official site Tennessee Open Records Information ServicesFederal
Latest Census Bureau numbers for the city of Knoxville, Tennessee in QuickFacts, from its 2020 Census total of 190,740 to estimates of age, sex, housing, income and business counts, shown without margins of error.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Knoxville's city site, with 311 service, jobs, permits and licenses, payments, parking, trash and recycling, parks, property taxes, bid opportunities, City Council meetings and Engage Knoxville projects.
Open official site City of KnoxvillePolice & jail
Knoxville Police Department, with the incident reports, record requests and contacts the department publishes.
Open official site Knoxville Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
20 more Knoxville sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Knoxville, a place of 190,740 people, is the seat of Knox County. Court and property records sit with Knox County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Tennessee. Knoxville's own offices are in the cards above, and our Knox 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 59 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 47 past producers, now closed, 2 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 8 sites producing when the record was made, 1 processing plant, which is not a working, 1 site with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 52 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Limestone, Dimension; Marble, Dimension; 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. Tennessee's coal regulatory program was run by OSMRE until the state took it back; the state AML program is in TDEC.
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.
Tennessee 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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Voter registration in Tennessee is run by the Tennessee Division of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Knoxville.
Deeds for property in Knoxville are recorded by the Knox County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Knox County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Tennessee come from the state vital records office, Tennessee Office of Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.