Mississippi, Lamar County
Where Purvis's records are kept. Purvis has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Purvis's own offices, along with the Lamar County and State of Mississippi offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
The Mississippi Secretary of State business search: corporations, LLCs, partnerships and nonprofits by name or business ID, with officers, filings and status.
Open official site Mississippi business entity searchVital records
Mississippi death certificates from the State Department of Health Vital Records: certified copies for deaths in Mississippi since 1912, ordered online, by mail or in person in Jackson.
Open official site Mississippi death certificatesPolice & jail
The Lamar County Sheriff's Department in Purvis, Mississippi: law enforcement and corrections for the county and an inmate search, which the page directs to the sheriff's own site.
Open official site Lamar County Sheriff's DepartmentCity records
The City of Purvis site, the Lamar County seat: the city clerk (board of aldermen minutes, ordinances and Public Records Act requests), the police department, the municipal court and utility billing.
Open official site City of PurvisCourt records
PACER, the federal courts' records system: civil, criminal and bankruptcy case dockets and filings from the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, searched by name or case number for a small per page fee, with written opinions free.
Open official site Mississippi Federal CasesProperty records
County property tax data from the Mississippi Department of Revenue: the annual tax rolls, millage rates, assessed values and homestead exemption data reported by each county; the parcel records themselves are kept by the county tax assessor.
Open official site Mississippi property tax data (Department of Revenue)Police & jail
The Lamar County Sheriff's Department in Purvis: law enforcement and corrections for the county, the county jail and civil process.
Open official site Lamar County Sheriff's OfficePolice & jail
The Mississippi Sex Offender Registry from the Department of Public Safety: registered offenders by name, county, city or zip code, with photos and addresses.
Open official site Mississippi sex offender registryPolice & jail
The Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search: people in state custody by name or MDOC number, with the location, sentence and tentative release date.
Open official site Mississippi corrections offender searchPolice & jail
The Criminal Information Center of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety: how to request a statewide criminal history record check by fingerprint, and who may obtain one.
Open official site Mississippi criminal history record checkState courts
Mississippi Electronic Courts, the state judiciary case system: filings from the participating circuit, chancery and county courts, with the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals dockets on the courts site. MEC access takes a registered account.
Open official site Mississippi court recordsVital records
Mississippi birth, death, marriage and divorce records from the State Department of Health Vital Records office, ordered online, by mail or in person, with birth and death records from 1912.
Open official site Mississippi vital recordsState records
Unclaimed property held by the Mississippi State Treasury: dormant accounts, uncashed checks and other property, searched and claimed online by name.
Open official site Mississippi unclaimed property searchEverything else, organized
Local record guide
Local profile
Purvis, a place of 1,909 people, is the seat of Lamar County. Court and property records sit with Lamar County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Purvis's own offices are in the cards above, and our Lamar County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 20 investigations with a Purvis address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $43,637 in back wages agreed for 76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Investments, LLC | 2 | $22,628 | 21 |
| Miranda Claburn | 1 | $6,170 | 8 |
| Ramey & Sons Purvis, LLC | 1 | $2,701 | 1 |
| Kids Kampus Purvis, LLC | 3 | $2,295 | 23 |
| South Central Mississippi Plumbing, LLC | 1 | $1,488 | 2 |
| Evergreen Lumber and Truss Inc | 1 | $601 | 13 |
| Trans 4 FED, LLC | 1 | $380 | 5 |
| Sandy Run Farm & Nursery, LLC | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Ward's Fast Food, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| South MS Investments, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Victor Tosca FLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Southern Communications, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Southern Mississippi Pinestraw, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Purvis, 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 Mississippi wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in Purvis are recorded by the Lamar County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Lamar County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Mississippi come from the state vital records office, Mississippi 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.