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Find the right office in La Crosse County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice, led by the Attorney General, gives the state legal advice, investigates statewide crimes and provides forensic analysis of evidence. Court case records come from the Wisconsin Court System.
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Buy Wisconsin hunting and fishing licenses, read hunting, fishing and ATV regulations, find state parks and wildlife areas, and report spills or natural resource violations to the DNR.
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Find the location and release information of individuals incarcerated with the Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections.
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Request birth and death certificates from the WI Dept. of Health Services.
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The FBI Milwaukee Field Office covers all of Wisconsin, investigating federal crimes and taking tips from the public. It also lists wanted persons; an Identity History Summary comes from FBI CJIS at edo.cjis.gov.
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Direct access to Wisconsin courts access online, from county to Supreme courts.
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Search the WI Dept. of Corrections database of registered offenders by name or location.
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Vital Records Office sells certified death certificates by mail or through VitalChek. County Register of Deeds offices and the Milwaukee and West Allis health offices also issue them.
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Find active and inactive corporations by name from the WI Department of Financial Institutions.
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Search the most wanted fugitives and absconders by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
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Local record guide
County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. La Crosse County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in the unincorporated areas of La Crosse County.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in La Crosse County is provided by La Crosse County Sheriff's Office and several municipal police departments.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. La Crosse County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency serving the unincorporated areas of La Crosse County and providing countywide services. Inmate lookup is available through the Sheriff's Office website at www.lacrossecounty.org/sheriff, where the public can search current inmates by name or booking number, view booking dates, charges, and bond information. For an arrest-related record, identify the agency and requested document; the Sheriff provides a public-records request form, while the Clerk of Courts supplies filed court documents. Use the Sheriff's records-request route.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in La Crosse County are maintained by La Crosse County Sheriff's Office and the local police departments.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in La Crosse County are taken and retained by La Crosse County Sheriff's Office during the booking process.
The facility is located at 333 Vine Street, La Crosse, WI 54601. You can also call the jail directly at (608) 785-9630 for more information.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 24 mine sites inside the county: 20 past producers, now closed, 2 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 104 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are crushed stone; construction sand and gravel.
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. Wisconsin has no coal AML program; the old lead and zinc workings are in the southwest counties.
Wisconsin 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 62 investigations in La Crosse County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $430,277 in back wages agreed for 686 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logistics Health Incorporated | La Crosse | 2 | $92,648 | 154 |
| Due North Transportation LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $79,064 | 61 |
| Shogun Onalska Inc. | Onalaska | 1 | $72,801 | 16 |
| Lafayette Tent & Awning Inc | La Crosse | 1 | $40,590 | 36 |
| Huff Painting | West Salem | 1 | $37,068 | 13 |
| Aptiv, Inc. | La Crosse | 1 | $26,004 | 143 |
| Pogy'S P&E Enterprises, Inc | La Crosse | 1 | $18,045 | 31 |
| Word of Life Ministries, Inc. | La Crosse | 1 | $8,948 | 25 |
| Polito's Pizza of LaCrosse, LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $7,183 | 11 |
| Lakeview Health Center | West Salem | 1 | $7,107 | 27 |
| Labor Ready Midwest Inc | La Crosse | 1 | $6,881 | 20 |
| Sunflower of LaCrosse, LLC. | La Crosse | 1 | $5,824 | 20 |
| Howe Concrete Construction LLC | Holmen | 1 | $3,311 | 7 |
| Twin City Lodging LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $3,176 | 6 |
| TCI Architects/Engineers/Contractor, Inc. | La Crosse | 1 | $2,685 | 2 |
| Children's Tree House Daycare & Preschool, LL | Onalaska | 1 | $2,400 | 8 |
| Mema Petroleum TWO, LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $2,331 | 12 |
| The Mattress Solution, LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $2,079 | 4 |
| Top Hat, Inc. | La Crosse | 1 | $1,469 | 2 |
| Yosi, Inc. | La Crosse | 1 | $1,437 | 5 |
| Coulee Region Taxi, LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $1,278 | 3 |
| Dee's Gasoline Alley Inc. | La Crosse | 2 | $1,262 | 4 |
| Nissen Inc. | Onalaska | 1 | $1,161 | 8 |
| Trempealeau Waterfront Properties LLC | La Crosse | 1 | $1,043 | 5 |
| Brothers of Wisconsin, Inc. | La Crosse | 1 | $778 | 26 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 56 on the La Crosse County record; 15 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 31 more with smaller records are on the Wisconsin wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
The La Crosse Register of Deeds office is in the Administrative Center, Room 1400, at 212 Sixth Street North. Its general weekday hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but recording submissions received after 3:30 p.m. are recorded the next day. The contact instructions identify 4 p.m. as the cutoff for same-day vital-record processing. Genealogy research requires an appointment and has its own Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday schedule from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tell the office whether the visit is for recording, a certificate or research so the correct window can be confirmed through the Register's contact and service information.
Wisconsin statewide issuance changes which office can supply a vital record. La Crosse explains that birth and marriage records can be requested through a Wisconsin Register of Deeds, while older local deaths and divorces require attention to the event date. Deaths before September 2013 and divorces before January 2016 have different retrieval routes from more recent events. A divorce certificate is also a different product from the decree in the court case. Confirm which record the receiving institution needs before ordering. Certified records require the stated relationship or legal interest and identification under the county vital-record instructions.
The Register lists vital-record copies at $20 for the first copy and $3 for additional copies of the same record ordered together. Its electronic-order fee schedule also identifies a convenience charge, which is separate from the county copy price. Recorded real-estate copies are priced by document: an uncertified copy begins at $2 for the first page and $1 thereafter; a certified document begins at $3 and adds $1 per later page. The listed transaction charges differ for certified and uncertified orders. Specify the number of pages, copies and certification choice before calculating the total under the Register's copy and convenience-fee schedule.
The county's Tapestry instructions describe online real-estate and tract indexes beginning in June 1987. Search options include the parties, legal description, document number, date span and instrument type. An index entry can identify a deed or mortgage without answering whether a later release or corrective instrument exists. Keep the full instrument reference and examine the relevant sequence of filings before ordering the document. The office describes search and image-copy charges separately; an image view and a downloadable copy are different services. For a record older than the advertised online coverage, ask the Register about the relevant index through its land-search guidance.
The Register's genealogy guidance explains that statewide issuance has changed the maintenance of local vital-record books; those books are no longer the continuously updated record source. A family-history visit should begin with the person, event, approximate date and a clear distinction between looking at an index and obtaining a certified certificate. Bring name variations and the relationship between related entries rather than relying only on a modern spelling. Ask which historical books or other research tools cover the period and arrange access before traveling. The office's genealogy instructions describe how to approach the local historical vital-record collection.
La Crosse Circuit Court provides public-access computers near the Clerk of Courts office and a staff-assisted record-search procedure. The county lists a $5 court-record search charge and document copies at $1.25 per page. A request should identify the full name, middle initial, birth date and the records to be searched, or the case number when already known. The resulting case reference should then be used to request the particular pleading, order or judgment. Certification and delivery needs should be stated separately rather than inferred from the page rate. Consult the Circuit Court copy and search information.
The Sheriff hosts the warrant list on behalf of the Clerk of Courts. The published instructions say information is current at posting and that removal can lag after a warrant has been paid. They direct questions about the listing to the Clerk of Courts during business hours. A listed name is not a finding that the person committed an offense, and a similar name should not be treated as a confirmed identity. For research into the underlying matter, obtain the case reference and pursue the filed court record rather than treating the listing as the full history through the county warrant-list instructions.
The Sheriff identifies a business-office number, a jail number and a separate nonemergency dispatch route. Use the business office for administrative or records-routing questions and the jail for custody matters. Its public-record request form is linked from the agency contact area; describe the report or other retained material with dates and incident identifiers. The email notice says monitoring occurs during business hours and excludes holidays, which is not a statement that custody operations stop outside that period. A report by a municipal department has its own originating custodian. Begin with the Sheriff's official contacts and records form.
Zoning, Planning and Land Information combines planning services with survey, real-property and GIS functions. Those functions can clarify which parcel, map or development record relates to a location before a deed request is made. Keep the map layer and planning decision separate from the recorded instrument, and identify the municipality because local and county responsibilities can differ. For a hearing-related document, include the committee, property and meeting date. The department identifies the relevant staff functions and contact route in its land-information office description.
Where to go
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Recorded instruments, vital certificates and historical research.
Office page: lacrossecounty.org
Circuit Court case records and copies.
Office page: lacrossecounty.org
Sheriff agency records and detention-information routing.
Office page: lacrossecounty.org
Planning, GIS, survey and real-property information.
Office page: lacrossecounty.org
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the La Crosse County Sheriff's Office or a city police department in La Crosse County. Ask that agency for its record.
The Wisconsin criminal history record comes from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Crime Information Bureau. Anyone may pay a fee and request adult criminal history record information by name online through the Wisconsin Online Record Check System (WORCS).
Search the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry, or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the municipal clerk (city, village or town clerk) or through the Wisconsin Elections Commission. You can also register online with the state online registration. Online and mail registration closes 20 days before the election; you can register in person at the municipal clerk's office until the Friday before the election at 5:00 p.m. or close of business, and at the polls on Election Day with a proof of residence document.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in La Crosse County are kept by the La Crosse County register of deeds. Property values are set by the municipal assessor, and tax bills come from the town, village or city treasurer. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Wisconsin come from the Wisconsin Vital Records Office, Department of Health Services. Birth, marriage, death and divorce records are also available through Wisconsin county Register of Deeds offices, and birth and death records through the Milwaukee City Health Office and the Southwest Suburban Health Department (Cities of West Allis and Greenfield). By U.S. mail to P.O. Box 309, Madison, WI 53701, or online or by phone through VitalChek at 877-885-2981. Fee: $20 for the first copy of each record and $3 for each additional copy of the same record.
Business entity filings are searched with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions.
The Register says documents received after 3:30 p.m. are recorded the next day, even though the general office remains open until 4:30 p.m. See the service-specific counter times.
Genealogy research is by appointment, with listed sessions Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Arrange the visit through the Register's research schedule.
No. The Register describes certificate availability by event date, while a decree belongs in the granting court's file. Identify the required product using the vital-record routing guidance.
The county copy price is $20 for the first record and $3 for each additional copy of the same record ordered together. Electronic-order convenience charges are separately listed in the fee schedule.
The office describes real-estate and tract indexes beginning in June 1987. Ask about older material rather than assuming a negative online search covers earlier instruments in the search coverage description.
The court lists $5 for the search and $1.25 per page for requested document copies. Provide the identifying information described in the Circuit Court copy instructions.
The Sheriff says it hosts the list for the Clerk of Courts, which handles listing questions. The posting may lag a payment under the warrant-list instructions.
The Sheriff lists 608-785-9630 for the jail and 608-785-9629 for the business office. Its email monitoring hours do not establish a jail records-counter schedule in the agency contact information.
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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.