California, Stanislaus County
Where Modesto's records are kept. Modesto has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Modesto's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Stanislaus County offices are on our Stanislaus County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaCounty court
The Judicial Branch of California runs Find Your Court: enter a five digit California zip code or a city name to see the court locations nearest to it.
Open official site Judicial Branch of California Find Your CourtVital records
Keeps California birth, death, fetal death, marriage and divorce records, issues certified copies and registers or amends records as the law allows. Accepted orders cannot be canceled or refunded.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsitePolice & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts entry for the city of Modesto, California with its 2020 Census population of 218,464, the most recent population estimate, and figures from the American Community Survey and Economic Census.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
City of Modesto website for online bill pay, GoModesto concern reports, agendas and minutes, non-emergency police reports, business licensing, permits and zoning, and garbage and bulky item pickup. 1010 10th Street, 209-577-5200.
Open official site City of ModestoCity records
Public records and documents 1010 10th Street Modesto, CA 95354 Phone: (209) 577-5397
Open official site Modesto City ClerkEverything else, organized
13 more Modesto sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Modesto, a place of 218,464 people, is the seat of Stanislaus County. Court and property records sit with Stanislaus County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Modesto's own offices are in the cards above, and our Stanislaus 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 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 1 processing plant, which is not a working, 1 site with no status in the record. The mineral the records name is Clay.
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.
California 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 140 investigations with a Modesto address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,111,983 in back wages agreed for 930 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Training Center | 4 | $156,272 | 170 |
| Beard's Quality Nut Company LLC | 1 | $136,922 | 25 |
| Golden Age | 8 | $135,092 | 32 |
| Greenback Manor | 1 | $107,357 | 2 |
| Delta Star Home Care LLC | 2 | $103,600 | 52 |
| PLM Operations, LLC | 1 | $54,317 | 51 |
| MAK, Inc. | 2 | $35,452 | 124 |
| Golden Age Home Care | 4 | $34,546 | 10 |
| California Daylighting, Inc. | 1 | $34,536 | 6 |
| Provident Care, Inc. | 2 | $32,743 | 43 |
| El Capitan M & T, Inc. | 1 | $29,068 | 24 |
| Apex Tile, Inc. | 1 | $23,195 | 67 |
| Modesto Guest Home | 1 | $20,754 | 7 |
| Serenity MedSpa, Inc. | 1 | $18,818 | 8 |
| Progressive Home Health and Hospice Care, LLC | 1 | $17,870 | 1 |
| ET Abatement, Inc. | 1 | $16,930 | 30 |
| Graham Packaging Company, Inc | 1 | $16,697 | 3 |
| VIP Care Facilities Inc. #2 | 1 | $15,302 | 4 |
| Skylines Roolfing | 1 | $14,777 | 13 |
| Lui, Bi Wen | 1 | $13,104 | 2 |
| Navi Holdings, LLC | 1 | $11,698 | 1 |
| Steve Davis | 1 | $7,528 | 29 |
| Golden State Automatic Sprinklers, Inc. | 1 | $7,182 | 6 |
| MAK Management Co. LLC | 1 | $7,125 | 26 |
| Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc. | 1 | $6,640 | 1 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 111 whose address on the record is in Modesto; 32 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 86 more with smaller records are on the California wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Modesto.
Deeds for property in Modesto are recorded by the Stanislaus County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Stanislaus County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health Vital Records. 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.