Kansas, Riley County
Where Manhattan's records are kept. Manhattan has its own city government, police department, municipal court and utility office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Manhattan's own offices, along with the Riley County and State of Kansas offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Manhattan website, run from City Hall at 1101 Poyntz Avenue, links agendas and minutes, utility bill payment, licenses and permits, City Commission meetings and a form to report an issue.
Open official site City of ManhattanPolice & jail
The Riley County Police Department at 1001 S Seth Child Road polices Manhattan and is linked from the city site. It posts a daily summary of calls for service and reports filed.
Open official site Riley County Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Riley County Police records are available weekdays 7 am to 5 pm. Requests under the Kansas Open Records Act can be made in person, by mail, fax or email to the Records Division.
Open official site Riley County Police RecordsMunicipal court
Manhattan Municipal Court at 610 Colorado Street handles cases under city jurisdiction, among them DUIs, drug and alcohol violations, worthless checks, animal control, parking and property nuisance violations.
Open official site Manhattan Municipal CourtCity records
The City of Manhattan online portal for requests under the Kansas Open Records Act. Create an account to submit a request, or look through the knowledge base and archive first.
Open official site Manhattan Open Records RequestCity records
The Manhattan Utility Billing Division bills city utility accounts, takes payments, answers bill questions and handles requests to start or stop service, with online bill pay and automatic bank draft.
Open official site Manhattan Utility BillingPolice & 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 WantedCounty court
The Kansas Judicial Branch explains CaseSearch, a free online search of public district court cases and documents after a user agreement; older documents and some records are viewable only on courthouse terminals.
Open official site Kansas Judicial Branch: Search District Court RecordsVital 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
A state agency, the Kansas Historical Society runs the State Archives research room in Topeka, the Kansas Memory online collection, genealogy indexes, the Kansas Museum of History and 16 historic sites.
Open official site Kansas Historical SocietyCounty court
Sitting in Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita, the federal bankruptcy court for Kansas offers court calendars, an unclaimed funds locator, KSBFastFile for filing claims and a docket tool.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, District of KansasVital records
State office keeping Kansas birth, stillbirth, death, marriage and divorce records; they are not public, and certified copies go to the person named, immediate family, a legal representative or someone with direct interest.
Open official site KDHE Office of Vital StatisticsEverything else, organized
16 more Manhattan sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Manhattan, a place of 54,100 people, is the seat of Riley County. Court and property records sit with Riley County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Kansas. Manhattan's own offices are in the cards above, and our Riley 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 old survey maps record 2 holes inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
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. Underground coal mining in Kansas was concentrated in Cherokee and Crawford Counties.
Kansas 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 111 investigations with a Manhattan address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,055,850 in back wages agreed for 1,258 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Britt's Garden Acres | 2 | $178,423 | 20 |
| La Fiesta of Manhattan, Inc. | 1 | $162,677 | 16 |
| It's Greek To Me, Inc. | 1 | $97,762 | 133 |
| Baan Thai Restaurant Inc | 3 | $93,009 | 31 |
| Coco Bolo's Inc. | 1 | $50,547 | 31 |
| Little Apple Brewing Company, Inc. | 1 | $36,514 | 50 |
| Barbra Flores | 1 | $31,287 | 18 |
| New Paradigm Solutions, Inc | 1 | $28,953 | 240 |
| Central Mechanical Construction Co Inc. | 1 | $25,691 | 7 |
| Rock-A-Belly Bar & Deli, Inc. | 1 | $22,270 | 40 |
| Bamboo Buffet KS Inc. | 1 | $20,590 | 8 |
| VanNahmen Construction, Inc | 2 | $20,339 | 23 |
| TSS Marketing, Incorporated | 2 | $20,197 | 59 |
| G4 Investments, LLC | 1 | $18,293 | 31 |
| Best Pest Control of Manhattan, LLC | 2 | $18,020 | 6 |
| Midland Exteriors, Inc | 1 | $16,615 | 22 |
| 312 Hospitality Group LLC | 1 | $15,036 | 51 |
| Bayer Construction Co, Inc | 2 | $14,436 | 25 |
| Early Edition, LLC | 3 | $12,880 | 71 |
| Hill Management Group, LLC | 1 | $9,737 | 44 |
| Gibralter Industries | 1 | $9,175 | 17 |
| Dick Edwards Ford Lincoln Mercury, Inc. | 1 | $8,232 | 1 |
| Torgeson Trenching, Inc | 1 | $7,916 | 1 |
| AJ Retail LLC | 1 | $6,441 | 6 |
| Mercy Regional Health Center | 1 | $6,041 | 26 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 86 whose address on the record is in Manhattan; 28 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 61 more with smaller records are on the Kansas wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Kansas is run by the Kansas Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Manhattan.
Deeds for property in Manhattan are recorded by the Riley County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Riley County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Kansas come from the state vital records office, Kansas 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.