Massachusetts, Essex County
Where Methuen's records are kept. Methuen has its own city government, police department and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Methuen's own offices, along with State of Massachusetts offices; the Essex County offices are on our Essex County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Methuen city offices sit in the Searles Building at 41 Pleasant Street. The city website offers bill payment and autopay, permits and licenses, SeeClickFix reports, agendas and minutes and meeting video.
Open official site City of MethuenPolice & jail
The Methuen Police Department in the Quinn Public Safety Building at 90 Hampshire Street has 98 sworn officers and links its Records Division, records request forms and copies of incident and crash reports.
Open official site Methuen Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Methuen Police Records Division, at the main entrance of the police department, stores and releases investigation, property, accident, arrest and incident reports, open to the public weekdays.
Open official site Methuen Police Records DivisionCity records
The City of Methuen explains how to request public records under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Chapter 66, Section 10, with step by step instructions for making a request.
Open official site Methuen Public Records RequestCity records
The Methuen City Clerk, Room 112 in the Searles Building, is chief election officer and head of the Department of Records, which holds the city archives and vital records.
Open official site Methuen City ClerkCourt records
DCJIS runs the state criminal offender record information (CORI) system and the Firearms Records Bureau, and takes public records requests and offender information registrations.
Open official site Massachusetts Department of Criminal Justice Information ServicesPolice & jail
Search the most wanted fugitives and absconders in the State of Massachusetts.
Open official site Massachusetts Most WantedPolice & jail
Find the location and release information of individuals incarcerated with the Massachusetts Dept of Corrections.
Open official site Massachusetts Inmates and Offender SearchPolice & jail
Search the Massachusetts Public Safety Sex Offender Registry Board for registered offenders by name or location.
Open official site Massachusetts Sex OffendersPolice & jail
Find out which forms to file to seal a Massachusetts criminal record, including juvenile records, and whether to send them to the Commissioner of Probation or the court where the case started.
Open official site Request to Seal Your Criminal Record in MassachusettsPolice & jail
Find Massachusetts State Police headquarters, barracks and phone listings, and read news and information about its statewide patrol, investigative, tactical and support units.
Open official site Massachusetts State PoliceState records
Buy a Massachusetts fishing or hunting license and find freshwater and saltwater fishing information from the Department of Fish and Game, which oversees MassWildlife and Marine Fisheries.
Open official site Massachusetts Department of Fish and GameState records
The Massachusetts Attorney General is the state's chief lawyer and law enforcement officer, taking consumer, workplace and civil rights complaints. Court records come from the Massachusetts Trial Court and its clerks' offices.
Open official site Massachusetts Attorney GeneralPolice & jail
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security oversees the State Police, Department of Correction, Sex Offender Registry Board and other agencies, and links to inmate and sex offender searches.
Open official site Massachusetts Department of Public SafetyState records
Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Open official site Massachusetts Business & Corporation SearchState records
Search property and claim status by individual name or business through the state treasurer.
Open official site Massachusetts Unclaimed PropertyState records
Licensing, background checks, investigations of child care providers.
Open official site Massachusetts Department of Early Education and CareEverything else, organized
Local record guide
Local profile
Methuen, a place of 52,044 people, is in Essex County, whose county seat is Salem. Deeds are recorded at the registry of deeds that serves Essex County, the clerk of the town where Methuen lies keeps copies of birth and death certificates, and court cases go through the Massachusetts Trial Court. Methuen's own offices are in the cards above, and our Essex 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 mine records hold 3 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 1 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 17 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
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. No abandoned mine inventory is published; the survey's host does not answer this box, both urls are in the search index.
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.
Massachusetts 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.
Straight answers
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Certified birth and death certificates for events in Massachusetts come from the state vital records office, Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, and the town or city clerk can also issue copies. The state office's site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Businesses that operate in Methuen register with the Massachusetts Corporations Division, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Methuen requires one, comes from the town or Essex County.
Same county
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.