Ohio, Fairfield County
Where Lancaster's records are kept. Lancaster has its own city government, police department, clerk's office and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Lancaster's own offices, along with State of Ohio offices; the Fairfield County offices are on our Fairfield County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Government section of the City of Lancaster, Ohio: agendas and minutes, city bids and budgets, boards and commissions, City Council and the departments of city government.
Open official site City of Lancaster GovernmentPolice & jail
Lancaster Division of Police headquarters at 130 South Broad Street, Lancaster, Ohio: report filing, crash reports, personnel feedback, annual reporting and resources such as vacation security checks.
Open official site Lancaster Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Copies of Lancaster police reports and log entries come from the Records Office at 130 South Broad Street on weekdays, with a Request for Information form to speed the search.
Open official site Lancaster Police RecordsCity records
The Clerk of Council serves the ten members of Lancaster City Council, preparing agendas and minutes, and makes council public records available and copies them for anyone who asks.
Open official site Lancaster Clerk of CouncilCity records
Lancaster's Certified Building Department, first floor of City Hall at 104 E. Main Street, enforces the Residential Code of Ohio and the Ohio Building Code and takes commercial plans electronically.
Open official site Lancaster Certified Building DepartmentPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
The Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation is Ohio's clearinghouse for missing person data: it keeps databases of missing children and adults, issues alerts and takes tips. Families should call local police first.
Open official site Ohio Attorney General Missing PersonsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Ohio History Connection research library in Columbus offers genealogy guides, its catalog and Ohio death certificates from 1908 to 1970; since July 2026 it opens Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Open official site Ohio History Connection Archives and LibraryCounty court
Courthouses in Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton serve southern Ohio, open weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the court posts recent opinions and hearing calendars and takes copy requests and fee payments online.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of OhioCounty court
The Supreme Court of Ohio lists each county's common pleas, municipal and county courts, with links to every court's own website and local rules.
Open official site Supreme Court of Ohio Courts by CountyEverything else, organized
17 more Lancaster sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Lancaster, a place of 40,552 people, is the seat of Fairfield County. Court and property records sit with Fairfield County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Ohio. Lancaster's own offices are in the cards above, and our Fairfield 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 past producers, now closed, 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 3 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is 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. Coverage is automatic in the 26 mandatory counties (Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mahoning, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Scioto, Stark, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Washington) and optional in 11 more.
Ohio 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 38 investigations with a Lancaster address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $167,441 in back wages agreed for 183 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precise Boring of Ohio, LLC | 1 | $85,913 | 24 |
| T'S Trucking | 1 | $10,672 | 11 |
| Simmons & Kleinline, Inc. | 1 | $10,494 | 23 |
| Colonial Wagon and Wheel | 1 | $10,009 | 31 |
| Toxco, Inc. | 2 | $9,368 | 32 |
| Gang Roofing, Inc. | 1 | $7,978 | 13 |
| Buchanan's Custom Furniture | 1 | $6,995 | 10 |
| Double Eagle Financial Corp. | 1 | $5,000 | 0 |
| Ironfab, LLC | 2 | $4,193 | 6 |
| G.S.D. Services, Inc. | 1 | $3,392 | 1 |
| Fairfield Information Services & Associates | 1 | $2,500 | 1 |
| Pro-Kleen Industrial Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,597 | 3 |
| Lancaster Host LLC | 1 | $1,560 | 1 |
| Davis Battery Sales & Trucking, Inc. | 1 | $1,440 | 1 |
| The Union House | 1 | $1,310 | 6 |
| Family Inc | 1 | $1,295 | 4 |
| N 8 Family Chriropractic, Inc. | 1 | $1,217 | 4 |
| New Life Christian Center | 1 | $944 | 2 |
| ACOM Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $417 | 2 |
| RN Smith Inc. | 1 | $345 | 1 |
| Anchor Hocking LLC | 1 | $231 | 1 |
| Inside-Out Builders Supply, LLC. | 1 | $188 | 3 |
| Unlimited Healthcare Services, Inc. | 1 | $149 | 4 |
| Fairfield Medical Center, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Wal-Mart Supercenter (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc) | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 34 whose address on the record is in Lancaster; 8 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 9 more with smaller records are on the Ohio wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Ohio is run by the Ohio Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Lancaster.
Deeds for property in Lancaster are recorded by the Fairfield County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Fairfield County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Ohio come from the state vital records office, Ohio Office of Vital Statistics. 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.