North Dakota, Ward County
Where Minot's records are kept. Minot has its own city government, police department, fire department and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Minot's own offices, along with State of North Dakota offices; the Ward County offices are on our Ward County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The State Historical Society's archives in Bismarck holds North Dakota state and local government records, manuscripts, newspapers and photographs, with genealogy and vital records guides; appointments are recommended.
Open official site North Dakota State ArchivesCounty court
One clerk's office in Fargo, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., handles North Dakota's federal bankruptcy cases; the site carries PACER and e-filing links, the court calendar, opinions and fee schedule.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of North DakotaCounty court
Search North Dakota district court criminal, traffic and civil cases, plus some municipal court cases, and make payments on criminal or traffic cases by county; restricted case information is left out.
Open official site North Dakota Court System District Court Case SearchVital records
Orders for certified North Dakota birth, death and fetal death records go online, by mail or by appointment and take 5 to 7 business days; the office also keeps a public death index.
Open official site North Dakota Health and Human Services Vital RecordsPolice & jail
The state corrections agency's site, with a Resident Lookup covering only people currently held in its facilities, plus public dashboards on incarceration populations and parole releases.
Open official site North Dakota Department of Corrections and RehabilitationPolice & jail
The North Dakota Attorney General's statewide list gives each missing person's age, last seen date and investigating agency phone number, with photos where available, plus separate searches for missing children and Indigenous persons.
Open official site North Dakota Missing PersonsPolice & jail
Kept by the North Dakota Attorney General, the registry finds offenders by name, city, county or distance from an address, maps them and sends email alerts on changes.
Open official site North Dakota Sex Offender RegistryFederal
U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts table for the city of Minot, North Dakota: 48,377 people in the 2020 Census, the latest population estimate, and figures on age, sex, housing, income and local businesses.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
On the City of Minot site: council agendas, permits and licenses, utility bill pay and autopay, concern reports, Minot City Transit, sanitation and landfill hours, and municipal court. City offices: 10 3rd Ave SW.
Open official site City of MinotPolice & jail
515 2nd Ave SW Minot, ND 58701-3739 Phone: (701) 852-0111 Fax: (701) 839-4804
Open official site Minot Police DepartmentCity records
Minot Fire Department: 2111 10th St SW Minot, ND 58701 701-857-4740 fax 701-857-4743 email fires1@minotnd.org.
Open official site Minot Fire DepartmentCity records
Office of the City Clerk, the office that keeps county filings and public records for Minot, North Dakota, with the copies and searches it publishes.
Open official site Office of the City ClerkEverything else, organized
13 more Minot sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Minot, a place of 48,377 people, is the seat of Ward County. Court and property records sit with Ward County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Dakota. Minot's own offices are in the cards above, and our Ward 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 18 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made, 17 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 3 holes drawn 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. The PSC asks anyone building in a historic lignite mining town to ask the AML program first.
Minot sits over the Fort Union Region 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 town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by North Dakota Public Service Commission, Abandoned Mine Lands and linked below.
North Dakota 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 63 investigations with a Minot address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $521,935 in back wages agreed for 599 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chippewa Resources Incorporated | 1 | $151,704 | 14 |
| Crystal Globe LLC | 2 | $150,000 | 0 |
| Investors Management & Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $37,121 | 26 |
| Mattson Construction Co. | 1 | $35,848 | 26 |
| ProHealth Home Care Inc. | 1 | $35,210 | 3 |
| eTelecare Global Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $20,983 | 216 |
| Concrete Concepts | 1 | $17,329 | 37 |
| Gill Corporation | 5 | $13,602 | 14 |
| China Star, Inc. | 2 | $12,904 | 25 |
| Klizotte Contractors, LLP | 1 | $8,717 | 3 |
| Vallely Marine, Inc. | 2 | $6,432 | 15 |
| Northland Bus Service Inc | 1 | $5,785 | 10 |
| J&P Asset Management, Inc. | 1 | $4,978 | 2 |
| China Star of Minot Corporation | 1 | $4,935 | 5 |
| Dakota Dunafon, Inc. | 2 | $4,650 | 18 |
| Tollefsons' Retail Group Inc | 2 | $4,016 | 19 |
| Tollefson's Retail Group Inc | 2 | $2,436 | 19 |
| Friday's Inc | 1 | $2,292 | 9 |
| Sunwest Management Inc. | 1 | $2,114 | 4 |
| Concrete Concepts, Inc (SUB) | 1 | $1,956 | 16 |
| EBP Inc | 1 | $1,819 | 13 |
| Saturdays, Inc | 1 | $1,432 | 4 |
| MVW Services, Inc. | 2 | $1,356 | 101 |
| Vision Systems, LLC | 1 | $1,056 | 4 |
| K-Jim's Inc | 1 | $587 | 8 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 51 whose address on the record is in Minot; 20 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 26 more with smaller records are on the North Dakota wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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North Dakota has no voter registration. Voters show an ID with their name, North Dakota residential address and date of birth at the polls; the North Dakota Secretary of State site lists the ID rules and polling places.
Deeds for property in Minot are recorded by the Ward County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Ward County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in North Dakota come from the state vital records office, North Dakota Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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