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Find the right office in Rhea County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee hears bankruptcy cases in Chattanooga, Greeneville, Knoxville and Winchester, with dockets and claims available through PACER.
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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Rhea County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order throughout Rhea County, particularly in unincorporated areas.
Police Departments. In addition to Rhea County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in Rhea County is supported by municipal police departments.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement in Rhea County is primarily provided by Rhea County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 1475 Market Street in Dayton, Tennessee 37321. Rhea County Jail, operated by the Sheriff's Office, houses inmates awaiting trial or serving short sentences. Arrest records in Rhea County are public documents available under the Tennessee Public Records Act, codified at Tennessee Code Annotated § 10-7-503 and § 10-7-504, which grants citizens the right to inspect and copy public records.
Criminal Records. For an authoritative source, see Rhea County Arrest, Court, and Public Records .
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 6 mine sites inside the county: 2 past producers, now closed, 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 3 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 64 holes drawn inside the county, 9 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Iron; Manganese.
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. Tennessee's coal regulatory program was run by OSMRE until the state took it back; the state AML program is in TDEC.
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.
Rhea County lies on the edge of the Appalachian 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 TDEC Mining, Data and Map Viewers and linked below.
Tennessee 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 43 investigations in Rhea County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $258,449 in back wages agreed for 910 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.
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Spring City | 2 | $137,312 | 41 |
| Goodman Manufacturing Co. | Dayton | 1 | $93,499 | 287 |
| Maruti Enterprise, LLC | Dayton | 1 | $35,281 | 6 |
| Pero Tennessee Farms, LLC | Dayton | 2 | $23,711 | 374 |
| Rodriguez Harvesting, LLC | Evensville | 1 | $21,586 | 93 |
| Henderson Farms | Evensville | 1 | $15,120 | 14 |
| Anchor Commercial Development, LLC | Dayton | 1 | $10,122 | 8 |
| Linares Farm LLC | Dayton | 1 | $4,752 | 54 |
| Mendiola Harvesting FLC | Dayton | 1 | $4,733 | 2 |
| Rhea County Government | Dayton | 1 | $4,203 | 5 |
| C.N.M. Enterprises, Inc. | Dayton | 1 | $730 | 2 |
| Rhea of Sunshine, Inc | Dayton | 1 | $600 | 1 |
| Edwin Gonzalez Sanchez | Dayton | 1 | $240 | 4 |
| Selinda Herrera | Evensville | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Laurelbrook Sanitiarium & School, Inc. | Dayton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Industrial Wood Company | Evensville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Laurel Brook Sanitarium & School, Inc. | Dayton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| American Consumers, Inc | Dayton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Perez, Noe Ogler, FLC | Dayton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Pero Family Farms LLC | Evensville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Lloyd and Diane Swafford | Evensville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Linares Farms LLC | Dayton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Donnie P. Henderson | Evensville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| L&D Swafford family farm | Evensville | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Orbelin Barrios | Dayton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 31 on the Rhea County record; 22 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 6 more with smaller records are on the Tennessee wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Rhea County Sheriff or a city police department in Rhea County. Ask that agency for its record.
The Tennessee criminal history record comes from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). Request a Tennessee name based criminal history check online through Tennessee Open Records Information Services (TORIS), paying by credit card. Fee: $29.00 for each name based check.
Search the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry (TBI), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county election commission or through the Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Elections. You can also register online with the state online registration. You must be registered no later than 30 days before the election; mailed forms must be postmarked at least 30 days before.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Rhea County are kept by the Rhea County register of deeds. Property values are set by the county assessor of property, and tax bills come from the county trustee.
Certified birth and death certificates for Tennessee come from the Tennessee Department of Health, Office of Vital Records. All county health departments can issue any birth or death certificate registered statewide with the Tennessee Office of Vital Records; you do not need to go to the county where the event occurred. In person with no appointment at Tennessee Vital Records, 1st Floor, Andrew Johnson Tower, 710 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, TN 37243, or at any county health department; by mail to that address with a check or money order payable to Tennessee Vital Records; or online through VitalChek. Fee: $15.00 for each birth or death certificate, first and additional copies.
Business entity filings are searched with the Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Business and Charitable Organizations. Business licenses are issued by the county clerk, and by the city if it imposes the business tax, where the business is located; businesses with taxable receipts over $3,000 need one.
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