California, Kern County
Where Ridgecrest's records are kept. Ridgecrest has its own city government, clerk's office and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Ridgecrest's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Kern County offices are on our Kern County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital records
Keeps California birth, death, fetal death, marriage and divorce records, issues certified copies and registers or amends records as the law allows. Accepted orders cannot be canceled or refunded.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Population, race and ethnicity, housing units, home values, household income, poverty and travel time to work for Ridgecrest city, California, set out in a single U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts table.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Meeting agendas, police logs, online payments, bids, issue reports, the code of ordinances and public records requests are on the City of Ridgecrest site, which lists City Hall at 100 W California Avenue, 760-499-5000.
Open official site City of RidgecrestState records
City legal records and files 100 W California Ave Ridgecrest, CA 93555 Phone: (760) 499-5002 Fax: (760) 499-1500
Open official site Ridgecrest City ClerkPolice & jail
Law enforcement and public safety 100 W California Ave Ridgecrest, CA 93555 Phone: (760) 499-5100
Open official site Ridgecrest Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
10 more Ridgecrest sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Ridgecrest, a place of 27,959 people, is in Kern County, whose county seat is Bakersfield. Court and property records sit with Kern County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Ridgecrest's own offices are in the cards above, and our Kern 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 USGS mineral file records 4 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 2 of them worked out or abandoned; the USGS topographic mine features add 22 features mapped inside the city or town limits, 6 of them shafts, adits or tunnels, digitised from the old survey sheets. The mineral the records name is Gold.
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.
California 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.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Ridgecrest.
Deeds for property in Ridgecrest are recorded by the Kern County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Kern County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health 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.