Oklahoma, LeFlore County
Where Poteau's records are kept. Poteau has its own police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Poteau's own offices, along with the LeFlore County and State of Oklahoma offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Vital records
Oklahoma State Department of Health Vital Records page for certified birth certificates, ordered online or by phone with will call pickup in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and McAlester; online orders mail within two business days.
Open official site Oklahoma Vital Records Birth CertificatesState records
Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Oklahoma Secretary of State.
Open official site Oklahoma Business & Corporation SearchVital records
The Oklahoma State Department of Health Division of Vital Records registers every death in the state and issues certified copies to eligible applicants for a fee, including Will Call pickup.
Open official site Oklahoma Death RecordsPolice & jail
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections offender information page links to its death row and fugitive lists, and explains how to write to, visit or send money to people in custody.
Open official site Oklahoma Death RowVital records
The CDC Where to Write guide for Oklahoma says marriage records are kept by the court clerk in the county that issued the license. Birth and death copies come from the State Department of Health.
Open official site Oklahoma Marriage SearchState records
Oklahoma State Treasurer unclaimed property program, which returns unclaimed cash, stock certificates, jewelry and other property to owners, with a property search, claim status, holder reporting and satellite offices in Muskogee and Clinton.
Open official site Oklahoma State Treasurer Unclaimed PropertyPolice & jail
Poteau Police Department is proud to partner with the City of Poteau.
Open official site Poteau Police DepartmentPolice & jail
We are located behind the courthouse in Poteau, Oklahoma.
Open official site LeFlore County Sheriff's OfficePolice & jail
Official site of the Oklahoma courts with court dockets, legal research, forms, e-payments and e-filing, plus Supreme Court calendars, orders, oral argument videos and appellate opinions.
Open official site Oklahoma State Courts Network (OSCN)Everything else, organized
Local record guide
Local profile
Poteau, a place of 8,807 people, is in LeFlore County. Court and property records sit with LeFlore County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Oklahoma. Poteau's own offices are in the cards above, and our LeFlore 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 old survey maps record 5 holes inside the city or town limits, 2 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.
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.
Poteau 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 town. 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
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 17 investigations with a Poteau address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $139,649 in back wages agreed for 234 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medical Services of LeFlore County | 4 | $144,869 | 38 |
| Southern Star, Inc. | 1 | $64,130 | 143 |
| Mickey LaFevers | 4 | $15,759 | 38 |
| Poteau Nursing Center LLC | 1 | $7,000 | 1 |
| Linda Vista, Inc. | 1 | $6,682 | 13 |
| Emergency Medical Services of Leflore | 1 | $2,672 | 30 |
| Ringing-10 Corporation | 1 | $987 | 1 |
| J. Grantham Drilling, Incorporated | 1 | $688 | 1 |
| Rose Restaurants LLC | 1 | $544 | 15 |
| Bms LLC | 1 | $91 | 1 |
| Brad Fenton Motors of Poteau, Inc | 1 | $24 | 1 |
| K-Mac Enterprises, Inc. | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Leflore County Youth Services, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Minks Investment Properties LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| RB American Group LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Poteau, by back wages agreed; 4 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.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Oklahoma is run by the Oklahoma State Election Board and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Poteau.
Deeds for property in Poteau are recorded by the LeFlore County Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our LeFlore County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Oklahoma come from the state vital records office, Oklahoma Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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.