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About public records in Nowata County
County profile
Nowata County at a glance
- State
- Oklahoma
- County seat
- Nowata
- Population
- 9,320
- Area
- 581 sq mi
- Founded
- 1907
- Cities and towns
- 3
Nowata County offices and records
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Nowata County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order throughout Nowata County, particularly in unincorporated areas.
Police Departments. In addition to Nowata County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in Nowata County includes municipal police departments such as the Nowata Police Department and the South Coffeyville Police Department. Coordination between the Sheriff's Office and municipal departments is crucial for addressing major crimes and making sure of full law enforcement coverage across Nowata County.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Nowata County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 229 North Maple Street in Nowata, OK 74048, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Nowata County. Inmate information can be obtained by contacting the detention center directly or through the Sheriff's Office during business hours; Oklahoma does not maintain a centralized statewide inmate database, so county-level contact is necessary. Arrest records in Nowata County are considered public records under the Oklahoma Open Records Act (51 O.S. Nowata County does not currently offer online arrest or booking lookup portals.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Nowata County are maintained by Nowata County Sheriff's Office. Residents and attorneys can request access to arrest records by contacting the Sheriff's Office directly.
Jail & Inmate Records. Nowata County Jail, operated by Nowata County Sheriff's Office, is the primary detention facility for people arrested within Nowata County. Inmate lookup services are available through the Sheriff's Office, allowing the public to find information about current detainees.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Nowata County are taken and retained by Nowata County Sheriff's Office during the booking process. These photos are part of the public record and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office.
The jail is located at 229 North Maple Street, Nowata, OK 74048. You may also call the jail directly at (918) 273-2287 to inquire about an inmate.
Abandoned mine records
Old mine workings in Nowata County
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
What is on record in Nowata County
- Old mine sites
- 51
- Past producers, now closed
- 51
- Producing when recorded
- 2
- Main minerals
- construction sand and gravel; Clay; crushed stone
- Holes drawn on the old survey maps
- 57
- Shafts and tunnels
- 0
- What they are
- gravel pit, shale pit, quarry, sand pit
- Maps surveyed
- 1972
- Records behind them
- 143 records for 110 sites, the rest are the same working written down more than once
- Sources
- USGS mineral file and USGS topographic mine features
Is an old working under a property here?
The mine records hold 53 mine sites inside the county: 51 past producers, now closed, 2 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 57 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Clay; crushed stone.
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.
Oklahoma mine map and abandoned mine records
- Oklahoma Department of Mines, Historic Underground Mining MapsHistoric underground mine maps listed county by county (Atoka, Coal, Craig, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Okmulgee, Pittsburg, Rogers, Tulsa and others) with mine name, section, township and range and map date.
- Oklahoma Conservation Commission, Land Restoration (Abandoned Mine Land)The state AML program, with a Report an Abandoned Mine form (name, email, county, town or land location).
- Oklahoma Geological Survey, Coal Illustrations and MapsThe survey's map of the Oklahoma coalfield and stratigraphic columns of the coal bearing strata.
Named workings recorded in Nowata County (53 shown, 57 unnamed on the map)
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 10 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 5 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 9 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 4 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 3 records for this one site
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface
- Leco Materials Limestone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Peerless Materials Limestone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Peerless PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
- Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface
Nowata County sits over the Western Region coal field and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. 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 county. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Oklahoma Department of Mines, Historic Underground Mining Maps and linked below.
Oklahoma 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
Wage and hour cases in Nowata County
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 13 investigations in Nowata County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $67,236 in back wages agreed for 49 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.
- Investigations closed
- 13
- Back wages agreed
- $67,236
- Workers due back wages
- 49
- Civil money penalties
- $1,299
- Employers on the record
- 11
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RFR Enterprises Inc. | Nowata | 1 | $48,647 | 13 |
| AJ's Convenience Store LLC | Nowata | 4 | $12,896 | 31 |
| Lightning Creek Investment Group, Inc. | Nowata | 1 | $3,066 | 3 |
| Tri-County Appraisal Co., LLC | Nowata | 1 | $2,374 | 1 |
| Nowata Nursing Center, Inc. | Nowata | 2 | $748 | 4 |
| Walton Transport, LLC | Nowata | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Danny Allen | Delaware | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma Nursing Homes, LTD | Nowata | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Conley Trucking Inc. | Nowata | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Snack City Express, LLC | Nowata | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Disan Engineering Corporatiion | Nowata | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the Nowata County record, by back wages agreed; 5 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Oklahoma wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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Nowata County public-records FAQs
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Where can I find mugshots or booking photos in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the county sheriff's office or a city police department. Ask that agency for its record. Attorney General Opinion 2012 OK AG 22 holds that a mug shot taken and kept by a law enforcement agency is an arrestee's physical description and so an open record that must be disclosed under the Open Records Act (51 O.S. 24A.8(A)).
How do I get a criminal background check in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
The Oklahoma criminal history record comes from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). Request a name based check online through CHIRP at chirp.osbi.ok.gov; fingerprint based checks go by mail or in person, with fingerprinting at OSBI headquarters by appointment (405-848-6724). Fee: From November 1, 2026 (74 O.S. 150.9): $20.00 for a name based check and $25.00 for a state fingerprint based check.
How can I look up sex offenders in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
Search the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry, or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
How do I register to vote in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
Register with the county election board or through the Oklahoma State Election Board. You can also register online with the state online registration. Applications must be received at least 25 days before an election; online registration needs an Oklahoma driver license or state ID and a signature on file with Service Oklahoma.
How do I look up property records in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Nowata County are kept by the Nowata County clerk. Property values are set by the county assessor, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
How do I get a birth or death certificate in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
Certified birth and death certificates for Oklahoma come from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, Vital Records Service. Online or by phone at (405) 426-8880 through the state's partner VitalChek, with mail delivery or Will Call pickup in Oklahoma City, Tulsa or McAlester, or by mail with check or money order payable to OSDH to Vital Records Service, PO Box 248964, Oklahoma City, OK 73124-8964; there is no walk in service. Fee: $20.00 for the first copy and $15 for each additional copy (online and phone orders).
How do I find business license records in Nowata County, Oklahoma?
Business entity filings are searched with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. Many common business activities need no state license, but counties and municipalities may still require licenses for them, according to the state business portal.
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