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Find the right office in Scott 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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PACER, the federal judiciary's records service, holds dockets and filings from Mississippi's Northern and Southern District Courts and bankruptcy courts. State cases are kept by Mississippi circuit and chancery clerks.
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Obtain property tax info by contacting the state of Mississippi.
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Request copies of death records from the Mississippi State Department of Health.
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Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Mississippi Secretary of State.
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Information from MS Dept. of Corrections about death row inmates.
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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Scott County Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order in the unincorporated areas of Scott County.
Police Departments. Scott County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Scott County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments in cities like Forest and Morton.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Scott County Sheriff's Office, located at 104 East First Street in Forest, Mississippi 39074, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Scott County. Arrest records and booking information are maintained by the Sheriff's Office and can be requested under the Mississippi Public Records Act, codified at Mississippi Code § 25-61-1 et seq, which provides that public records shall be available for inspection and copying by any citizen during regular business hours.
Criminal Records. For an authoritative source, see Sheriff | Scott County, Mississippi .
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
To search for someone recently arrested in Scott County, Mississippi, you can contact the Scott County Jail, located at 531 Airport Road, Forest, MS 39074. The jail maintains an inmate lookup process that can be accessed by calling the facility directly at (601) 469-5195.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 4 mine sites inside the county: 4 past producers, now closed; the old survey maps add 20 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
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. The state says it has no underground mines.
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.
Scott County sits over the Mississippi Region coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. 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 MDEQ Office of Geology, Mining and Reclamation Division and linked below.
Mississippi 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 47 investigations in Scott County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $988,786 in back wages agreed for 683 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phenix Transportation West, Inc. | Forest | 1 | $358,490 | 186 |
| Koch Foods of Mississippi, LLC | Morton | 6 | $336,418 | 197 |
| PH Foods INC | Morton | 1 | $119,454 | 166 |
| T & G Services LLC | Morton | 1 | $86,819 | 17 |
| DLK Land Corp. | Forest | 1 | $33,292 | 5 |
| Guardian Angel Hospice, Inc | Morton | 1 | $21,327 | 18 |
| Brent's Texaco Inc | Sebastopol | 1 | $16,039 | 6 |
| Peco Foods, Inc. | Sebastopol | 6 | $7,134 | 19 |
| 77 Food & Fuel Express, LLC | Morton | 1 | $3,562 | 9 |
| New Outlooks Adult Day Care Services, Inc. | Morton | 1 | $3,052 | 4 |
| Magnolia Manor Inc. | Forest | 1 | $3,037 | 9 |
| Superior Pallet Company Inc. | Morton | 1 | $2,929 | 6 |
| Cooper Farms & Vineyard | Morton | 1 | $1,388 | 26 |
| TRAC Enterprises, LLC | Forest | 2 | $917 | 13 |
| R & W Christian Academy, Inc | Forest | 1 | $620 | 8 |
| Fairway Foods, Inc. | Morton | 1 | $611 | 4 |
| Quick Food Mart # 3 Inc | Morton | 3 | $521 | 5 |
| Shree Santosi, Inc | Forest | 1 | $438 | 8 |
| Raj INC | Forest | 1 | $136 | 1 |
| Tyson Foods, Inc. | Forest | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Aultman Enterprises, Inc. | Forest | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| La Michoacana of Forest, LLC | Forest | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Labor Help On the Spot | Morton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Timmie L. Cooper | Morton | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Martin Wences | Forest | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 34 on the Scott County record; 11 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 9 more with smaller records are on the Mississippi wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Scott County Sheriff or a city police department in Scott County. Ask that agency for its record.
The Mississippi criminal history record comes from the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Criminal Information Center. Name based check of your own record only, requested online through the DPS Name Based Background Check by the person the record belongs to; results can take up to 30 calendar days. Fee: $32.00 per request.
Search the Mississippi Sex Offender Registry (Department of Public Safety), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Scott County are kept by the Scott County Chancery Clerk. Property values are set by the county Tax Assessor, and tax bills come from the county Tax Collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Mississippi come from the Mississippi State Department of Health, Vital Records. By mail with a cashier's check or money order to Mississippi Vital Records, P.O. Box 1700, Jackson, MS 39215-1700, in person at the Vital Records office in Ridgeland, or online or by phone through VitalChek, the private company MSDH names, for an added fee. Fee: $17 for a birth or death certificate, $6 for each added copy of the same record ordered at the same time.
Business entity filings are searched with the Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division. The Secretary of State's business portal says you may need permits and licenses from your city or county government, and requirements differ by location.
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