New York, Niagara County
Where Niagara Falls's records are kept. Niagara Falls 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 Niagara Falls's own offices, along with the Niagara County and State of New York offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The official Niagara Falls city website lists City Hall at 745 Main Street and gathers certificates and licenses, neighborhood services, property taxes, water bills, online payments and text alerts.
Open official site City of Niagara FallsPolice & jail
The Niagara Falls Police Department at 1925 Main Street, a municipal force of 155 sworn officers and 30 civilians serving the city since 1892, with online police reports and its professional standards office.
Open official site Niagara Falls Police DepartmentCity records
How the City of Niagara Falls handles Freedom of Information Law requests: Records Access Officers answer in writing within five business days and produce disclosable records within another twenty.
Open official site Niagara Falls Freedom of Information LawCity records
The Niagara Falls City Clerk, Room 114 at 745 Main Street, open weekdays 8:00AM to 4:00PM, issues birth, death and marriage certificates, marriage and dog licenses, business licenses and genealogy copies.
Open official site Niagara Falls City ClerkPolice & jail
FBI national most wanted criminals, search for Niagara Falls area subjects.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
Run by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, the clearinghouse aids police with missing children, college students and vulnerable adults, posts active alerts and unsolved cases, and takes tips by form or hotline.
Open official site DCJS Missing Persons ClearinghouseVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseProperty records
The state Tax Department's real property pages cover STAR credits with a property tax credit lookup, help for assessors, the RP-5217 transfer report and Sales Web, a searchable database of property sales.
Open official site New York State Tax Department Real PropertyCity records
The State Archives keeps executive, legislative and judicial records of New York government, with online finding aids, name indexes and digital collections, and provides copies to researchers who cannot visit in person.
Open official site New York State ArchivesCounty court
Serves 17 western New York counties, from Erie and Monroe to Chautauqua and Yates, through offices in Buffalo and Rochester; it publishes calendars, opinions, monthly caseload data and unclaimed funds information.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New YorkEverything else, organized
13 more Niagara Falls sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Niagara Falls, a place of 48,671 people, is in Niagara County, whose county seat is Lockport. Court and property records sit with Niagara County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of New York. Niagara Falls's own offices are in the cards above, and our Niagara 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 5 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 5 processing plants, which are not workings.
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. New York has no coal AML program; the DEC database covers permitted mines, not historic underground workings.
New York 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 112 investigations with a Niagara Falls address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $596,208 in back wages agreed for 1,127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North American Services Group LLC | 2 | $110,907 | 183 |
| Nys Arc Niagara County | 1 | $98,644 | 255 |
| NYSARC, Inc., Niagara County Chapter | 2 | $44,834 | 120 |
| Tulip Molded Plastics Corporation | 1 | $36,012 | 7 |
| Sai Lodging LLC | 1 | $28,171 | 5 |
| Griffon ENTERPRISE, INC | 1 | $19,404 | 17 |
| Hyde Park Mini Mart Inc | 3 | $19,279 | 52 |
| Blue Star of Niagara Corp | 1 | $17,037 | 16 |
| Titan Construction & Painting, Inc. | 1 | $14,047 | 7 |
| IMI Industrial Tradesmen, Service, Inc | 1 | $13,074 | 4 |
| Niagara Lodging Inc. | 2 | $12,871 | 8 |
| Karan & Anna, LLC | 2 | $12,733 | 76 |
| AAA Taxi, Tour and Limousine Inc. | 1 | $12,200 | 12 |
| GKG Convenience, Inc. | 1 | $11,216 | 69 |
| Seven Group, Inc. | 1 | $10,888 | 5 |
| Steve Baldo Ford Inc. | 1 | $10,128 | 15 |
| Danny Thompson, Inc. | 1 | $10,036 | 10 |
| Karunasagar LLC | 1 | $8,673 | 3 |
| Samantha M Rutkowski-Bassett | 1 | $7,885 | 2 |
| Precision Process Equipment, Inc. | 1 | $7,665 | 36 |
| Chad Robertson Contracting Corp. | 2 | $7,631 | 5 |
| Managed Care Network, Inc | 1 | $7,308 | 1 |
| Opportunities Unilimited of Niagara, Inc. | 1 | $5,571 | 20 |
| Priya and Mohit Enterprises Inc | 1 | $4,743 | 10 |
| Venture Forthe Incorporated | 1 | $4,063 | 16 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 89 whose address on the record is in Niagara Falls; 33 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 64 more with smaller records are on the New York wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in New York is run by the New York State Board of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Niagara Falls.
Deeds for property in Niagara Falls are recorded by the Niagara County Clerk, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Niagara County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in New York come from the state vital records office, New York State Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Businesses that operate in Niagara Falls register with the New York Division of Corporations, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Niagara Falls requires one, comes from the town or Niagara 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.