Michigan, Oceana County

Mears, Michigan Public Records

Where Mears's records are kept. Mears has no town government, so its court and property records sit with Oceana County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Michigan.

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Mears has no town government of its own and relies on Oceana County for its court cases, deeds and other public records. The cards below are the county and state offices that keep them. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.

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Vital records

Michigan Vital Records Office

Order certified copies of Michigan birth, death, marriage and divorce records from the MDHHS Division of Vital Records by mail, online or in person.

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Police & jail

Oceana County Sheriff's Office

The Oceana County Sheriff’s Office, led by Sheriff Craig Mast, is staffed by deputies and corrections officers 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

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County court

MiCOURT Case Search

MiCOURT Case Search, run by the Michigan courts, lets you pick a participating trial court and look up its cases; some courts show criminal convictions only if sentencing was within seven years.

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Local record guide

About public records in Mears

What we hold on Mears, and who keeps its records.

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Mears at a glance

County
Oceana County
County seat
Hart
Population
332
Oceana County population
26,659
Local records
Oceana County offices
ZIP codes
49436

About Mears public records

Mears is an unincorporated community in Oceana County, with no town government of its own, so its local records are kept by the county. The Oceana County offices are in Hart, the county seat. Our Oceana County page lists each county office.

Labor Department file

Wage and hour cases in Mears, Michigan

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 4 investigations with a Mears address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $6,093 in back wages agreed for 73 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.

Investigations closed
4
Back wages agreed
$6,093
Workers due back wages
73
Civil money penalties
$2,776
Employers on the record
3
EmployerCasesBack wagesWorkers
Silver Scoops1$3,67312
Purpose Point Harvesting, LLC2$2,09555
SLWD, LLC1$3256

Every employer whose address on the record is in Mears, by back wages agreed; 1 employer has a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Michigan wage theft records page ranks the whole state.

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Nearby Oceana County cities

Other places in Oceana County. A town page lists that town's own offices where it has them; Oceana County records are on the county page.