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About public records in Latah County
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Latah County at a glance
- State
- Idaho
- County seat
- Moscow
- Population
- 39,517
- Area
- 1,077 sq mi
- Founded
- 1888
- Cities and towns
- 8
Latah County offices and records
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Latah County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Latah County.
Police Departments. Latah County is served by Latah County Sheriff's Office and several municipal police departments, including the Moscow Police Department, Potlatch Police Department, and Troy Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement in Latah County is provided primarily by Latah County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 522 South Adams Street, Moscow, Idaho 83843. Inmate information and custody status can be obtained by contacting the jail directly at or through the Sheriff's Office website, though online inmate search capabilities may be limited compared to larger counties. Municipal law enforcement is provided by the Moscow Police Department, serving the city of Moscow and the University of Idaho campus, located at 220 East 5th Street, Moscow. Smaller communities may contract with the Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services. Arrest records and booking information in Latah County are considered public records under Idaho Code § 74-101 et seq, the Idaho Public Records Act.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
The jail provides an inmate lookup service that can be accessed by visiting the Sheriff's Office website. You can also call the jail directly at (208) 882-2216 for more information about recent arrests and inmate details. • Phone: (208) 883-2264 Building permits, electrical permits, plumbing permits, and mechanical permits are issued by Latah County Building Department (for unincorporated areas) or by city building departments for work within city limits. Zoning information, conditional use permits, and land use applications are processed by Latah County Planning and Zoning Department for The Moscow Chamber of Commerce (208-882-1800. This resource is typically free for public searches. Latah County Treasurer's Office (208-882-8530) collects property taxes and maintains tax payment history. Some birth and death records may also be available through Latah County Clerk's Office at the courthouse, though the state office maintains the official repository for all Idaho vital records after 1911. Marriage licenses are issued by Latah County Clerk's Office at 522 South Adams Street, Moscow (208-882-8580). Document images can typically be viewed and purchased electronically. Latah County Assessor's Office, also located at the courthouse (208-883-2260), maintains property tax assessment records, ownership information, property characteristics, and valuation data.
Abandoned mine records
Old mine workings in Latah County
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
What is on record in Latah County
- Old mine sites
- 107
- Sites with no status in the records
- 3
- Past producers, now closed
- 46
- Prospects and occurrences, never worked
- 61
- Producing when recorded
- 22
- Worked underground, in the mine records
- 31
- Main minerals
- Mica; Gold; Clay
- Holes drawn on the old survey maps
- 87
- Shafts and tunnels
- 9
- What they are
- gravel pit, borrow pit, adit, mine shaft
- Maps surveyed
- 1960 to 1994
- Records behind them
- 222 records for 219 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 132 mine sites inside the county: 46 past producers, now closed, 61 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 22 sites producing when the record was made, 3 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 87 holes drawn inside the county, 9 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Mica; Gold; Clay.
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.
Idaho mine map and abandoned mine records
- Idaho Department of Lands, Abandoned Mine LandsThe program under the 1994 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act, funded by half the mine license tax; location questions go to the nearest IDL supervisory area.
- Idaho Geological Survey, Mines and Prospects DatabaseThe survey's searchable database of mines and prospects with mine histories, inactive mines and mineral property files; map at https://www.idahogeology.org/webmap/?show=mines.
Named workings recorded in Latah County (140 shown, 79 unnamed on the map)
- Carrico MineMine Shaft | Princeton map, 1990
- Gold Hill MineAdit | Harvard map, 1990
- Lost Wheelbarrow MineProspect Pit | Princeton map, 1990
- Luella MineAdit | Sand Mountain map, 1990
- MineAdit | Sand Mountain map, 1990
- MineAdit | Sand Mountain map, 1990
- MineAdit | Little Bear Ridge map, 1990
- MineAdit | Little Bear Ridge map, 1990
- Deary Clay Deposit SouthAluminum, Kaolin | Occurrence
- Mc Kinney ProspectBeryllium | Past Producer | Surface
- Potlatch Clay DepositBrick Clay | Past Producer
- Deary Clay DepositBrick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | Surface
- Brickner MineClay | Past Producer
- Carlson Clay ProspectClay | Past Producer | Underground
- Clayton MulalleyClay | Unknown | Surface
- JohansenClay | Past Producer | Surface
- LindmanClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Little Bear Creek Clay ProspectClay | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Miclasil Mine and MillClay | Producer | Surface
- Olson Clay DepositClay | Prospect | Surface
- Troy Division MineClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Troy Fire Brick CoClay | Unknown | Surface
- Copper Chief MineCopper | Past Producer | Underground
- Copper King MineCopper | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Dollie F. WolfeCopper | Occurrence
- Little Echo No 1Copper | Prospect | Surface
- Mizpah MineCopper | Past Producer | Surface and underground | 2 records for this one site
- Gemmill ProspectCopper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Surface and underground
- Moscow Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer
- Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory), Aluminum, Titanium | Occurrence
- Benson Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin | Past Producer
- Idaho Garnet and Abrasive Co.Garnet | Past Producer | Surface
- O'Donnell Opal OccurrenceGemstone | Past Producer
- Ables PlacerGold | Past Producer
- Behrens Brothers PlacerGold | Past Producer | Surface
- Boulder Creek PlacerGold | Past Producer
- Camas Creek PlacerGold | Past Producer
- Carrico Mine and PlacerGold | Producer | Surface and underground
- Carrico PlacerGold | Past Producer
- Daisy MineGold | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Jerome Creek PlacerGold | Past Producer
- Northwest Gold Fields CompanyGold | Past Producer | Surface
- Poorman PlacerGold | Occurrence
- Gold Bug ProspectGold, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Underground | 2 records for this one site
- Helmer Clay DepositKaolin | Producer
- Joel Clay MineKaolin | Past Producer | Surface
- Moose Creek Clay MineKaolin | Producer
- Onaway MineKaolin | Past Producer | Underground
- Stanford Clay DepositKaolin | Producer
- Canfield-Rogers Clay Deposit MineKaolin, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer
- McKeehan Clay MineKaolin, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | Surface
- Carlson LeaseMica | Prospect
- Doerr MineMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Fitzgerald PropertyMica | Occurrence
- Last Chance MineMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Lindquist ProspectMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Lucky Jim ProspectMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Luella MineMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Maxine No. 2 MineMica | Past Producer
- Olson MineMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Steel Smith Mica MineMica | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Muscovite MineMica, Beryllium | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Potlatch Corporation PitPhosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | Surface
- East Moscow Mountain ProspectQuartz | Occurrence
- B and N Switchyard PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Emerald Creek Garnet AreaSemiprecious Gemstone | Producer | Surface
- Unnamed LocationSilica | Occurrence
- Hoodoo DistrictSilver, Gold, Copper | Producer | a whole mining district, not one working
- O.K. OlsonSilver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Underground
- Bouill Rock QuarryStone | Producer | Surface
- Deary PitStone | Producer | Surface
- Jester PitStone | Producer | Surface
- Joel QuarryStone | Past Producer | Surface
- Lt-106 PitStone | Past Producer | Surface
- Cedar Creek PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Harvard PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Jensen PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Potlatch PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Olson ProspectTitanium | Prospect | Surface
- Prosperity GroupTungsten | Occurrence
- Ayer Deposit No. 1Occurrence | Surface
- Bishop Claim ProspectOccurrence | Underground
- Black Dust PlacerOccurrence
- Black Horse ProspectOccurrence
- Blackfoot ProspectOccurrence | Underground
- Bovill Clay DepositPast Producer | Surface
- Campbell MinePast Producer | Surface and underground
- Cassidy ProspectOccurrence | Surface and underground
- Copper OccurrenceOccurrence
- Copper OccurrenceOccurrence
- Copper Ridge ProspectOccurrence | Surface
- Deary Clay Prospect EastOccurrence | Surface
- Deary ProspectOccurrence
- Dicks Creek PlacerOccurrence
- Emerald Creek Garnet OccurrenceOccurrence
- Feather Creek ProspectOccurrence
- Gold Hill ProspectOccurrence | Surface and underground
- Gold ProspectOccurrence
- Hecla ProspectOccurrence | Underground
- Hidden Treasure PlacerOccurrence
- High Iron Olson Clay DepositOccurrence
- Hungry Gut MinePast Producer
- Joel Quartz OccurrenceOccurrence
- Last Chance ProspectOccurrence | Underground
- Mary Lee PlacerOccurrence
- Mason Butte Titanium PlacerOccurrence
- Mccornack ProspectOccurrence | Surface and underground
- Milbert PlacerOccurrence
- Milbert ProspectOccurrence | Surface and underground
- Milbert ProspectOccurrence
- Morning Star ClaimsOccurrence | Surface and underground
- Mountain Gulch ProspectOccurrence
- Olson and Stanford Hi-Al ClayPast Producer | Surface
- Paradise Ridge Silica DepositOccurrence
- Park Clay Occurrence No. 1Occurrence | Surface
- Park Clay Occurrence No. 2Occurrence
- Park Clay Occurrence No. 3Occurrence
- Pine Grove School Clay DepositOccurrence
- Potlatch South Clay OccurrenceOccurrence
- Sherwin Garnet PlacerOccurrence
- Silver King PropertyOccurrence
- Sunshine ClaimOccurrence | Surface and underground
- Taylor Placer ClaimOccurrence
- Troy Sillimanite Co. ProspectOccurrence
- Troy Sillimanite OccurrencesOccurrence
- Vassar Clay OccurrenceOccurrence
- White Cross ProspectOccurrence | Underground | 2 records for this one site
- Wild Rose LimestoneOccurrence
- Yale Clay OccurrenceOccurrence
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.
Idaho 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
Wage and hour cases in Latah County
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 18 investigations in Latah County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $157,501 in back wages agreed for 185 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.
- Investigations closed
- 18
- Back wages agreed
- $157,501
- Workers due back wages
- 185
- Civil money penalties
- $64,305
- Employers on the record
- 18
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revival Construction, LLC | Moscow | 1 | $66,477 | 29 |
| Rants and Raves Brewery, LLC | Moscow | 1 | $33,228 | 65 |
| Pine Creek Logging LLC | Deary | 1 | $26,527 | 34 |
| 3 Elm LLC | Moscow | 1 | $13,691 | 25 |
| Samvid Corporation | Moscow | 1 | $10,636 | 12 |
| Niche LLC | Moscow | 1 | $4,260 | 8 |
| Educational Turning Point Opportunities, Inc. | Moscow | 1 | $1,178 | 3 |
| Lou Soule | Moscow | 1 | $735 | 5 |
| Jadan LLC | Moscow | 1 | $389 | 3 |
| Mountain View Ranch Inc. | Moscow | 1 | $381 | 1 |
| EVCAR Inc | Moscow | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Inclusion North Inc | Moscow | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Gritman Medical Center, Inc. | Moscow | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Fuzzy's Bar & Grill, LLC | Deary | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| CSK Corporation | Moscow | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Red Bento LLC | Moscow | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Quality Contractors, LLC | Deary | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Fineline Construction Inc. | Princeton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Latah County record, by back wages agreed; 7 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Idaho wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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Where can I find mugshots or booking photos in Latah County, Idaho?
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Latah County Sheriff or a city police department in Latah County. Ask that agency for its record.
How can I get a criminal background check in Latah County, Idaho?
The Idaho criminal history record comes from the Idaho State Police, Bureau of Criminal Identification. Mail the Name Based Background Check Form with the fee to Idaho State Police BCI, 700 S. Stratford Dr. Ste. 120, Meridian, ID 83642, or send a fingerprint card with the Fingerprint Based Background Check Form. Fee: $20 processing fee for a name based check; $25 for a fingerprint based check.
How do I look up sex offenders in Latah County, Idaho?
Search the Idaho Sex Offender Registry (Idaho State Police), 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 Latah County, Idaho?
Register with the county clerk or through the Idaho Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Online registration closes 11 days before an election; you may also register when you vote in person at early voting or on Election Day.
How do I look up property records in Latah County, Idaho?
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Latah County are kept by the Latah County recorder. Property values are set by the county assessor, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
How do I get a birth or death certificate in Latah County, Idaho?
Certified birth and death certificates for Idaho come from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics. Online through VitalChek, the Bureau's official online partner, or by mail to Idaho Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, PO Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0036; the Bureau has no public counter. Fee: $16 for each certified copy.
How do I find business license records in Latah County, Idaho?
Business entity filings are searched with the Idaho Secretary of State (SOSbiz). Idaho does not have a state business license; business licenses are issued by local city clerk's offices, and many cities do not require them.
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