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Lancaster County Treasurers Office Tax Collection, with the property tax bills, payment information and collections the office reports.
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Lancaster County Criminal Records, with the criminal case, warrant and offender information the agency publishes.
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Lancaster County Birth Records
Lancaster County Birth Records, the office that issues these certificates, with the application, identification and fee rules it publishes.
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Lancaster County Office of Records Management
Lancaster County Office of Records Management: Access to county records and official public documents.
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Lancaster County Department of Veterans Affairs: Assistance for veterans to obtain benefits and services.
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Lancaster County Victim, Witness Services
Lancaster County Victim, Witness Services: Support and advocacy for crime victims in the judicial system.
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Lancaster Recorder of Deeds
Lancaster Recorder of Deeds, the office that records deeds, mortgages and land documents, with its index and copy rules as published.
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Pennsylvania State Police Troop J Headquarters
Pennsylvania State Police Troop J Headquarters, with the incident reports, record requests and contacts the department publishes for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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Lancaster County Death Records
Lancaster County Death Records, the office that issues these certificates, with the application, identification and fee rules it publishes.
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Directory of Lancaster County Government Departments, the county government site, with its department pages, elected officials and contact information.
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Lancaster County U.S. Census
United States Census Bureau figures for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with population, housing, income and business counts from the latest estimates.
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- Lancaster County Sheriff Civil ProcessesService of court orders, protection from abuse, garnishments
- Board of Assessment Appeals Real Property Assessment ReportsSearch listings and valuation inventory of all county properties
- Public Defender of Lancaster CountyLegal representation for adult, juvenile indigent offenders
- Lancaster County Marriage LicensesRequirements, instructions, applications for county marriage license
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- Lancaster County Adult Probation and ParoleMonitoring, rehabilitation, treatment programs
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- Lancaster County PrisonSearch inmate records for current population information
- Lancaster County CoronerInvestigates for cause, any unnatural death
- Lancaster County Office of AgingHousing, medical, home care, transportation services
- Lancaster County Clerk of the Court Public RecordsSearch records for the court criminal division records
- Lancaster County Geographic Information SystemSearch database of digital mapping features for county agencies
- Megan's Law Sex Offender RegistrySearch sex offender registry for listings of county sex offenders
- Lancaster AirportAirplane charter service, flight training, facility information
- Lancaster County Prothonotary Civil Court Record KeeperOfficial records of county civil court cases, divorce documents
- Lancaster County Department of Parks and RecreationParks and trails information, recreation programs services
- The Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster CountyCriminal, civil, divorce, malpractice trial court for the county
- Lancaster Intelligencer Journal NewspaperRegional news and public announcements
- Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas Domestic RelationsEstablishment and enforcement of child and spousal support
- Lancaster County Library SystemListing of county public libraries, locations, websites
- Lancaster County Magisterial District JudgesCounty justices contact information
- Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans CourtProbate, estate, inheritance records and information
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of PennsylvaniaBankruptcy court records and documents, filing information
- Court of Common Pleas Juvenile ProbationGuidance, supervision, enforcement for juvenile offenders
- Court of Common Pleas Online CalendarsAccess to court agendas and schedules
- Lancaster County Jury ServicesInstructions, information for county jury service
- Lancaster County Law LibraryAccess to legal research materials for attorney, public use
- Lancaster County Emergency Management AgencyEmergency plans for disaster response and recovery
- Economic Development Company of Lancaster CountyBusiness development promotion and expansion
- Lancaster County Visitor's BureauCalendar of events, ongoing attractions, visitors guide
- School District of LancasterEducation programs and services information
- Susquehanna Valley Chamber of CommerceRegional businesses information, visitor's guide
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About public records in Lancaster County
County profile
Lancaster County at a glance
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County seat
- Lancaster
- Population
- 552,984
- Area
- 984 sq mi
- Founded
- 1729
- Cities and towns
- 58
Lancaster County offices and records
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Lancaster County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in Lancaster County, particularly in unincorporated areas.
Police Departments. Lancaster County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Lancaster County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 625 East King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602, provides court security, serves legal processes, and operates warrant services. Inmate lookup for Lancaster County Prison, located at 625 East King Street, is available through Lancaster County website's inmate locator tool, which provides current custody status, charges, booking dates, and bond information. Municipal police departments serve individual municipalities throughout Lancaster County, including Lancaster City Bureau of Police, Manheim Township Police Department, East Lampeter Township Police, West Lampeter Township Police, Ephrata County Police, Columbia County Police, Lititz County Police, and numerous other municipal departments covering Lancaster County's 60 municipalities. Arrest records in Lancaster County are public records under Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law, 65 P.S. § 67.101 et seq, though certain criminal investigation records may be exempt.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Lancaster County are maintained by Lancaster County Sheriff's Office and local police departments.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Lancaster County are taken and retained by Lancaster County Sheriff's Office during the booking process.
Abandoned mine records
Old mine workings in Lancaster County
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
What is on record in Lancaster County
- Old mine sites
- 66
- Sites with no status in the records
- 1
- Still producing
- 12
- Worked underground, in the mine records
- 17
- Main minerals
- Limestone, General; construction sand and gravel; Iron
- Holes drawn on the old survey maps
- 72
- Shafts and tunnels
- 1
- What they are
- open pit mine or quarry, quarry, gravel/borrow pit - undifferentiated, mine shaft
- Maps surveyed
- 1953 to 1999
- Records behind them
- 162 records for 151 sites, the rest are the same working written down more than once
- Sources
- USGS mineral file and USGS topographic mine features
Is an old working under a property here?
The mine records hold 79 named mine sites inside the county, 66 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 72 holes drawn inside the county, 1 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Limestone, General; construction sand and gravel; Iron.
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. DEP has an address lookup for mine subsidence risk at gis.dep.pa.gov/msiRisk where you enter a street address: if the site falls in a gray Underground Mining Area it is over or near a known mined area. The PHUMMIS inventory of historic underground mine maps sits at www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/Phummis and is linked from the DEP Act 54 maps page.
Pennsylvania mine map and abandoned mine records
- Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas (DEP, hosted by Penn State)Scanned historic underground coal mine maps viewed and downloaded at a chosen site location, each linked to its PHUMMIS record (the PA Historic Underground Mine Map Inventory System, https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/Phummis/).
- DEP Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Report an AML EmergencyWhere to report an open subsidence hole, shaft or portal: the BAMR district office in Ebensburg (814-472-1800, bituminous region) or Wilkes-Barre (570-826-2371, anthracite region), after hours 800-541-2050; bureau page https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dep/programs-and-services/mining/abandoned-mine-reclamation.
- DEP Bureau of Mining Programs, underground mining maps and data (Act 54)Links the Active Underground Bituminous Coal Mining application, the DEP GIS open data layers (digitized mined out areas, longwall panels, permit boundaries), PASDA downloads, the Mine Map Atlas and PHUMMIS.
- DEP Mine Subsidence Insurance (MSI)State run insurance for damage from the collapse of abandoned underground coal and clay mines (residential coverage of $150,000 for $41.25 a year as the page states), with apply, renew and Check for Risk links; the application site is https://www.depgreenport.state.pa.us/MSI/Home/Index.
Named workings recorded in Lancaster County (80 shown, 71 unnamed on the map)
- Wood Chromite MineMine Shaft | Rising Sun map, 1998
- Cedar Hill QuarryAsbestos | Past Producer | Surface
- Brown MineChromium | Past Producer
- Slaymaker Chrome Sand PropertyChromium | Past Producer | Surface
- State Line DistrictChromium | Unknown | a whole mining district, not one working
- Wet Pit Slaymaker PropertyChromium | Prospect | Surface
- Lancaster & Elam Zander PitClay | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- Narvon MinesClay | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- Lancaster CountyIridium, Lead, Copper, Platinum | Occurrence
- BeartownIron | Past Producer
- Chestnut Hill Mines/Silver Spring MinesIron | Past Producer
- Cooper Iron Ore Bank/Duffy BanksIron | Past Producer
- Coppenhoffer Iron Mine & 3 Additional MinesIron | Past Producer
- Garman's Bank/Shirk/Smith BanksIron | Past Producer
- Silver Ford MineLead | Past Producer | Underground
- Pequea Silver Mine ALead, Silver | Past Producer
- David M Burkholder QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Denver QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- H R Miller QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Klines QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Landisville Eshlemans QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Rheems QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Talmage QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Blue Ball QuarryLimestone, General; Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- Blue Ball Stone QuarryLimestone, General; Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | 3 records for this one site
- Limeville QuarryLimestone, General; Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- Walter S Schum Farm ProspectManganese | Prospect
- Gap Nickel MineNickel | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- John H Bleacher Farm ProspectNickel | Prospect
- Gerhart Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Gerhart Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Harrison Sand MinesSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Milton Grove PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Milton Grove Sand Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Milton Grove Sand Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- York Haven Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Unnamed Vertical ShaftSilver | Past Producer | Underground
- Pequea Mine BSilver, Lead | Past Producer | Underground
- Cedar Hill Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Churchtown QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- David M Burkholder QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Denver QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Greentree QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- H R Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- J Miller Eshleman & Son IncStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Lancaster Lime & StoneStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Landis QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Talmage QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Union Quarries IncStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Belmont - Paradise QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken; Limestone, General | Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Binkley & Ober QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken; Limestone, General | Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Compass Quarries Inc Limestone QyStone, Crushed/Broken; Limestone, General | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Rohrers QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken; Limestone, General | Producer | 2 records for this one site
- Herr's MineZinc | Past Producer
- BamfordZinc, Lead | Past Producer
- Bamford MinePast Producer | Underground
- Browns MinePast Producer | Underground
- Caernarvon Township MinesPast Producer | Surface
- Carter MinePast Producer | Underground
- Conestoga Twp MinesPast Producer | Surface
- Damp PitsPast Producer | Surface
- East Cocalico Twp MinesPast Producer | Surface
- East Petersburg MinePast Producer | Underground
- Fulton Twp MinesPast Producer | Surface
- Geiger PitsPast Producer | Surface and underground
- Herr's MinePast Producer | Underground
- Hilton Farm PropertyPast Producer | Surface
- Jenkins CornerPast Producer | Surface
- Jenkins MinePast Producer | Surface and underground
- Line Pit MinePast Producer | Underground
- Martic Twp MinesPast Producer | Surface
- Newbold MinePast Producer | Surface
- North Rock Springs MinePast Producer | Underground
- Pequea MinePast Producer | Underground
- Red Pit MinePast Producer | Underground
- Tyson Reynolds MinePast Producer | Underground
- West Hempfield Twp. MinesPast Producer | Surface
- Wet PitPast Producer | Underground
- Wood MinePast Producer | Underground
- Zimmerman and Weldie PropertyPast Producer | Surface
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.
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.
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Lancaster County public-records FAQs
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Where can I find mugshots or booking photos in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Lancaster County Sheriff or a city police department in Lancaster County. Ask that agency for its record.
How do I get a criminal background check in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
The Pennsylvania criminal history record comes from the Pennsylvania State Police, Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History (PATCH). Run a name based PATCH check online at epatch.pa.gov or send a mail in PATCH request. Fee: $22.00 for each PATCH check; online card payments add a 2% fee.
How can I look up sex offenders in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Search the Pennsylvania State Police Megan's Law Website, or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
How do I register to vote in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Register with the county voter registration office (county board of elections) or through the Pennsylvania Department of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. You must register at least 15 days before the election.
How do I look up property records in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Lancaster County are kept by the Lancaster County recorder of deeds. Property values are set by the county assessment office, and tax bills come from the local elected tax collector; county treasurer in some counties. Source: official state page.
How do I get a birth or death certificate in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Certified birth and death certificates for Pennsylvania come from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Division of Vital Records. The Department of Health runs six Vital Records public offices across the state for in person requests. Online through VitalChek at mycertificates.health.pa.gov, the state's only authorized vendor, by mail to Division of Vital Records, Birth Certificate Processing Unit, PO Box 1528, New Castle, PA 16103, or in person at a Vital Records public office. Fee: $20 for each birth certificate; online orders add a $10 processing fee.
How do I find business license records in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Business entity filings are searched with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. There is no general business license that all Pennsylvania businesses must obtain; licensing depends on the business activity and location, and owners contact their locality about local business licenses.
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