California, Riverside County
Where Lake Elsinore's records are kept. Lake Elsinore has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Lake Elsinore's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Riverside County offices are on our Riverside County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordProperty records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
Bankruptcy court for California's Central District, offering PACER lookup, online petitions, live chat with court staff and self help desks with pro bono help in each of its five divisions.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital records
Order certified copies of California birth, death and marriage records from the state Office of Vital Records, with fees, forms and processing times.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
Wanted and missing person posters from the FBI Los Angeles Field Office, including Ten Most Wanted fugitives, Most Wanted Fraudsters and cases where agents seek information; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Los Angeles Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts page on the city of Lake Elsinore, California, where the 2020 Census counted 70,265 people; it adds the newest population estimate and social, economic and housing figures with source notes.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Lake Elsinore's official city site, with city government, departments, agendas and minutes, online services, lake information, recreation, public safety, the municipal code, public records, passports and city jobs.
Open official site City of Lake ElsinoreProperty records
Public records and legislative history 130 South Main Street Lake Elsinore, CA 92530 Phone: (951) 674-3124 Fax: (951) 67
Open official site Lake Elsinore City ClerkEverything else, organized
9 more Lake Elsinore sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Lake Elsinore, a place of 70,265 people, is in Riverside County, whose county seat is Riverside. Court and property records sit with Riverside County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Lake Elsinore's own offices are in the cards above, and our Riverside 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 USGS mineral file records 51 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 41 of them worked out or abandoned; the USGS topographic mine features add 10 features mapped inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts, adits or tunnels, digitised from the old survey sheets. The minerals the records name are Clay; Gold; Tin.
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.
Lake Elsinore lies on the edge of a mapped coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. The records only show a hole where somebody wrote one down or drew it on a map, never the outline of the workings themselves, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by California Department of Conservation, Abandoned Mine Lands Unit and linked below.
California 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 California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Lake Elsinore.
Deeds for property in Lake Elsinore are recorded by the Riverside County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Riverside County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health 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.