South Dakota, Minnehaha County
Where Sioux Falls's records are kept. Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls's own offices, along with State of South Dakota offices; the Minnehaha County offices are on our Minnehaha County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
South Dakota State Historical Society archives page for planning a research visit, with collection indexes, digital archives, newspapers online and the library catalog.
Open official site South Dakota State Archives ResearchCounty court
Bankruptcy court for South Dakota with clerk's offices in the Pierre federal courthouse and the Sioux Falls U.S. Courthouse, both open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of South DakotaPolice & jail
South Dakota Unified Judicial System guide to looking up case information, court dates and record searches. Only adult matters are covered; juvenile cases are confidential and left out of searches.
Open official site South Dakota Court Records AccessVital records
State office for South Dakota birth, death, marriage and divorce records, with fees, eligibility and ID rules, genealogy help, birth records over 100 years old and an online services portal.
Open official site South Dakota Department of Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
State clearinghouse listing missing persons reported in South Dakota, searchable by first name, last name and reporting agency, with statistics and resources for families and law enforcement.
Open official site South Dakota Missing Persons ClearinghousePolice & jail
Division of Criminal Investigation public registry, set up after 2006 law changes, listing all offenders registered in South Dakota. Users must accept the terms before searching.
Open official site South Dakota Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
DCI Identification Section processes fingerprint based South Dakota background checks for any person who asks. Send a request by mail or file online with fingerprints taken on a South Dakota Livescan machine.
Open official site South Dakota DCI Background ChecksFederal
QuickFacts table for Sioux Falls city, South Dakota with a July 1, 2025 population estimate of 213,748, a 2020 to 2024 median household income of $75,970, and figures on housing, schooling and health insurance.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Sioux Falls City Hall at 224 West Ninth Street posts city council meetings, public records, building codes, street construction updates, disposal and recycling details, and parks and pool registration.
Open official site City of Sioux FallsCity records
Public Records 235 W. Tenth St. P.O. Box 7402 Sioux Falls, SD 57117-7402 Phone: (605) 367-8080 Fax: (605) 367-7801
Open official site Sioux Falls City ClerkFederal
Mayor of Sioux Falls, with the city hall contacts, council information and the city records the office publishes.
Open official site Mayor of Sioux FallsPolice & jail
Police information and resources 320 W. 4th St. Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Phone: (605) 367-7212
Open official site Sioux Falls Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
15 more Sioux Falls sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Sioux Falls, a place of 192,517 people, is the seat of Minnehaha County. Court and property records sit with Minnehaha County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of South Dakota. Sioux Falls's own offices are in the cards above, and our Minnehaha 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 mine records hold 19 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 4 past producers, now closed, 9 sites producing when the record was made, 6 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 22 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are crushed stone; 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. South Dakota has no coal AML program; its old abandoned mines are in the Black Hills and the old denr.sd.gov AML page no longer resolves.
South Dakota 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 386 investigations with a Sioux Falls address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,810,223 in back wages agreed for 6,597 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Samaritan Society, Inc | 1 | $411,733 | 3,975 |
| H&G Inc | 2 | $139,535 | 31 |
| Dakota Beverage Company, Inc. | 1 | $90,825 | 47 |
| Beal Distributing, Inc | 2 | $65,815 | 53 |
| Jackys Restaurant LLC | 1 | $58,087 | 14 |
| Technation Softward Consulting Inc. | 1 | $49,545 | 8 |
| Mainstream Contracting LLC | 1 | $46,858 | 61 |
| Prairie Technology | 1 | $37,430 | 41 |
| Great China Star, Inc | 1 | $31,075 | 34 |
| Correct Care Solutions, LLC | 1 | $30,372 | 37 |
| LaHaise Management, LLC | 1 | $29,889 | 88 |
| Avera McKennan Hospital & University Hlth Ctr | 3 | $27,291 | 187 |
| TTT, Inc | 1 | $26,481 | 7 |
| Rummel Memorial Home, Inc | 1 | $24,232 | 81 |
| Inca's Mexican Restaurant SIoux Falls Inc | 1 | $21,092 | 10 |
| Sioux Falls Chiropractic, LLC | 1 | $20,357 | 19 |
| Howe, Inc. | 1 | $19,250 | 88 |
| Rochester Armored Car Company Inc. | 2 | $18,692 | 2 |
| Fireplace Professionals Inc. | 1 | $18,688 | 8 |
| Daily Cafe & Coffee, LLC | 1 | $17,889 | 33 |
| Elite Security LLC | 1 | $17,624 | 27 |
| Pleasant Valley Cleaning | 1 | $15,472 | 7 |
| IT Outlet, Inc | 1 | $14,236 | 20 |
| United Enterprises GR, LLC | 1 | $14,217 | 54 |
| Knology Inc. | 2 | $13,557 | 62 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 353 whose address on the record is in Sioux Falls; 85 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 328 more with smaller records are on the South Dakota wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in Sioux Falls are recorded by the Minnehaha County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Minnehaha County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in South Dakota come from the state vital records office, South Dakota 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.