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Find the right office in Lauderdale 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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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in the unincorporated areas of Lauderdale County.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in Lauderdale County is provided by Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments within Lauderdale County.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 156 Jefferson Street in Ripley, Tennessee, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Lauderdale County and operates Lauderdale County Jail. Inmate lookup for Lauderdale County Jail is available through the Sheriff's Office during business hours by calling the jail directly or visiting in person; some third-party inmate search services may also list current detainees. Arrest records in Lauderdale County are considered public records under the Tennessee Public Records Act (Tennessee Code Annotated § 10-7-503 and § 10-7-504), which mandates that governmental records be open for personal inspection by any citizen of Tennessee during regular business hours.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Lauderdale County are maintained by Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Lauderdale County are taken and retained by Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office during the booking process.
The jail is located at 675 Highway 51 South, Ripley, TN 38063. You can call the jail at (731) 635-1515 for information on recent arrests.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 20 mine sites inside the county: 12 past producers, now closed, 2 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 6 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 12 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; 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. Tennessee's coal regulatory program was run by OSMRE until the state took it back; the state AML program is in TDEC.
Lauderdale County sits over a mapped coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this county. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by TDEC Mining, Data and Map Viewers and linked below.
Tennessee 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 22 investigations in Lauderdale County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $84,137 in back wages agreed for 183 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Lankford Farms | Ripley | 2 | $40,593 | 44 |
| Halls Gin Company, Inc. | Halls | 2 | $12,676 | 62 |
| Tims Family Farm | Ripley | 2 | $10,725 | 38 |
| Cole's Inc. of Ripley | Ripley | 1 | $6,575 | 7 |
| Arp Cotton Gin Co., LLC | Ripley | 2 | $4,107 | 9 |
| AMV Development LLC | Ripley | 1 | $2,593 | 1 |
| Northpoint Regional, LLC | Ripley | 1 | $2,406 | 14 |
| Children's Village | Ripley | 1 | $2,349 | 4 |
| Above and Beyond Residential Living Inc. | Ripley | 1 | $1,898 | 1 |
| Landscape Workshop | Halls | 1 | $99 | 1 |
| KRMAS, Inc. | Ripley | 1 | $69 | 1 |
| Ripley Operator, LLC | Ripley | 1 | $48 | 1 |
| Pallet Shed | Henning | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| E.W. James & Sons Supermarket, Inc. | Ripley | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Barham's Farm | Ripley | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Sue Watson | Ripley | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Steve & Sue Watson | Ripley | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Parkers Farms | Ripley | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Lauderdale County record, by back wages agreed; 6 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Tennessee wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the county sheriff's office or a city police department. Ask that agency for its record.
The Tennessee criminal history record comes from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). Request a Tennessee name based criminal history check online through Tennessee Open Records Information Services (TORIS), paying by credit card. Fee: $29.00 for each name based check.
Search the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry (TBI), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county election commission or through the Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Elections. You can also register online with the state online registration. You must be registered no later than 30 days before the election; mailed forms must be postmarked at least 30 days before.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Lauderdale County are kept by the Lauderdale County register of deeds. Property values are set by the county assessor of property, and tax bills come from the county trustee.
Certified birth and death certificates for Tennessee come from the Tennessee Department of Health, Office of Vital Records. All county health departments can issue any birth or death certificate registered statewide with the Tennessee Office of Vital Records; you do not need to go to the county where the event occurred. In person with no appointment at Tennessee Vital Records, 1st Floor, Andrew Johnson Tower, 710 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, TN 37243, or at any county health department; by mail to that address with a check or money order payable to Tennessee Vital Records; or online through VitalChek. Fee: $15.00 for each birth or death certificate, first and additional copies.
Business entity filings are searched with the Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Business and Charitable Organizations. Business licenses are issued by the county clerk, and by the city if it imposes the business tax, where the business is located; businesses with taxable receipts over $3,000 need one.
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