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About public records in McClain County
County profile
McClain County at a glance
- State
- Oklahoma
- County seat
- Purcell
- Population
- 41,662
- Area
- 580 sq mi
- Founded
- 1907
- Cities and towns
- 6
McClain County offices and records
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. McClain County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in the unincorporated areas of McClain County.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in McClain County is provided by McClain County Sheriff's Office and several municipal police departments. These departments handle local law enforcement duties and collaborate with the Sheriff's Office on major crime investigations and emergency response efforts, making sure of full coverage across McClain County.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. McClain County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 121 N 2nd Street in Purcell, Oklahoma 73080, provides primary law enforcement services for unincorporated areas of McClain County. McClain County Detention Center, operated by the Sheriff's Office, houses inmates awaiting trial and those serving short sentences. Arrest records in McClain County are public documents under the Oklahoma Open Records Act, Title 51 O.S. Section 24A.1 et seq. Recent booking information may be posted on the Sheriff's Office website or third-party inmate databases.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
Abandoned mine records
Old mine workings in McClain County
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
What is on record in McClain County
- Old mine sites
- 51
- Past producers, now closed
- 50
- Prospects and occurrences, never worked
- 1
- Producing when recorded
- 6
- Worked underground, in the mine records
- 1
- Main minerals
- construction sand and gravel; Flagstone; Copper
- Holes drawn on the old survey maps
- 68
- Shafts and tunnels
- 0
- What they are
- gravel pit, open pit mine or quarry, sand pit, gravel/borrow pit - undifferentiated
- Maps surveyed
- 1956 to 1995
- Records behind them
- 130 records for 125 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 57 mine sites inside the county: 50 past producers, now closed, 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 6 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 68 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Flagstone; Copper.
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.
Oklahoma mine map and abandoned mine records
- Oklahoma Department of Mines, Historic Underground Mining MapsHistoric underground mine maps listed county by county (Atoka, Coal, Craig, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Okmulgee, Pittsburg, Rogers, Tulsa and others) with mine name, section, township and range and map date.
- Oklahoma Conservation Commission, Land Restoration (Abandoned Mine Land)The state AML program, with a Report an Abandoned Mine form (name, email, county, town or land location).
- Oklahoma Geological Survey, Coal Illustrations and MapsThe survey's map of the Oklahoma coalfield and stratigraphic columns of the coal bearing strata.
Named workings recorded in McClain County (57 shown, 68 unnamed on the map)
- Byars SouthwestCopper | Past Producer | Surface and underground
- Copper ProspectCopper | Prospect
- Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstone | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstone | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstone | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Dennis PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Dolese Company Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Fred Hamilton Sand PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Fred Hamilton Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Red Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
Oklahoma 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 McClain County
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 33 investigations in McClain County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $252,652 in back wages agreed for 368 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
- 33
- Back wages agreed
- $252,652
- Workers due back wages
- 368
- Civil money penalties
- $3,080
- Employers on the record
- 26
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wadley Care Center, Inc | Purcell | 1 | $114,891 | 204 |
| Sequoyah Enterprises, Inc | Wayne | 5 | $79,766 | 142 |
| Horizontal Well Drillers, Inc. | Purcell | 1 | $30,249 | 7 |
| Hardcastle Construction, Inc. | Washington | 2 | $23,058 | 25 |
| Star Travel Plaza, Inc. | Purcell | 2 | $20,864 | 31 |
| Rouse Concrete Corring LLC | Newcastle | 1 | $5,676 | 6 |
| Cracker Mex Inc. | Newcastle | 1 | $4,733 | 12 |
| Interstate Equine, LLC | Washington | 1 | $3,191 | 10 |
| Wheat Enterprises Daycare, LLC. | Purcell | 1 | $512 | 1 |
| Gulabben LLC | Newcastle | 1 | $360 | 1 |
| RV General Store, Inc | Newcastle | 1 | $262 | 2 |
| Adtech, Inc. | Wayne | 1 | $153 | 1 |
| Above All Metal Roofing LLC | Newcastle | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| H & H Plumbing and Utilities, Inc. | Washington | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Dixie Restaurant Inc | Edmond | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Clay Crossing for Women LLC | Purcell | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Granite by Design Inc. | Newcastle | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Carlson & Brown Enterprises, Inc. | Newcastle | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Spring Rain LLC | Washington | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Stormwater Solutions, Inc | Purcell | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Marcum NURSERY, INC. | Washington | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Rouse Concrete Coring | Newcastle | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Above All Metal Roofing Operations, LLC | Newcastle | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| McDonald Land Services, LLC | Washington | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| KBP Foods | Newcastle | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 26 on the McClain County record; 7 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 1 more with smaller records are on the Oklahoma wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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McClain County public-records FAQs
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Where can I find mugshots or booking photos in McClain County, Oklahoma?
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the McClain County Sheriff's Office or a city police department in McClain County. Ask that agency for its record. Attorney General Opinion 2012 OK AG 22 holds that a mug shot taken and kept by a law enforcement agency is an arrestee's physical description and so an open record that must be disclosed under the Open Records Act (51 O.S. 24A.8(A)).
How do I get a criminal background check in McClain County, Oklahoma?
The Oklahoma criminal history record comes from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). Request a name based check online through CHIRP at chirp.osbi.ok.gov; fingerprint based checks go by mail or in person, with fingerprinting at OSBI headquarters by appointment (405-848-6724). Fee: From November 1, 2026 (74 O.S. 150.9): $20.00 for a name based check and $25.00 for a state fingerprint based check.
How can I look up sex offenders in McClain County, Oklahoma?
Search the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry, 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 McClain County, Oklahoma?
Register with the county election board or through the Oklahoma State Election Board. You can also register online with the state online registration. Applications must be received at least 25 days before an election; online registration needs an Oklahoma driver license or state ID and a signature on file with Service Oklahoma.
How do I look up property records in McClain County, Oklahoma?
Deeds and other recorded land documents in McClain County are kept by the McClain County clerk. 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 McClain County, Oklahoma?
Certified birth and death certificates for Oklahoma come from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, Vital Records Service. Online or by phone at (405) 426-8880 through the state's partner VitalChek, with mail delivery or Will Call pickup in Oklahoma City, Tulsa or McAlester, or by mail with check or money order payable to OSDH to Vital Records Service, PO Box 248964, Oklahoma City, OK 73124-8964; there is no walk in service. Fee: $20.00 for the first copy and $15 for each additional copy (online and phone orders).
How do I find business license records in McClain County, Oklahoma?
Business entity filings are searched with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. Many common business activities need no state license, but counties and municipalities may still require licenses for them, according to the state business portal.
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