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Police & jail
The courts that sit in Skagit County hear its criminal cases, and the court clerk keeps the charges, the dispositions and the sentences on file.
Open official site Skagit County Criminal RecordsProperty records
Property, real estate, corporation and public utility taxes.
Open official site Skagit County TaxPolice & jail
Link to the county sheriff's office.
Open official site Skagit County Sheriff's DepartmentVital records
Official death certificates from the county of Skagit County.
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The Skagit County government site lists every county department and office, with links to each one's records, services and contact details.
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Search divorces, criminal and civil cases.
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The Skagit County property search gives the owner, the parcel number, the legal description and the assessed value of each parcel in the county.
Open official site Skagit County Property SearchPolice & jail
Search for inmates held by the county.
Open official site Skagit County Booking and Jail InformationVital records
Order records of births in the county of Skagit.
Open official site Skagit County BirthsCity records
City of Mount Vernon licenses businesses in city limits through the state Business Licensing Service; City Hall is at 910 Cleveland Avenue, Mount Vernon, WA 98273, phone 360-336-6211.
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Begin your search for judgments and liens online by case number or case year.
Open official site Skagit Court ClerkCity records
Find voter and election information for Skagit County.
Open official site Skagit County Voter RegistrationEverything else, organized
6 more Skagit County sources not listed above.
Local record guide
County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Skagit County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement services in the unincorporated areas of Skagit County.
Police Departments. In addition to Skagit County Sheriff's Office, several city police departments operate within Skagit County, including the Mount Vernon Police Department, Anacortes Police Department, Burlington Police Department, and Sedro-Woolley Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Skagit County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 600 South Third Street in Mount Vernon, WA 98273, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Skagit County and provides countywide services including operating Skagit County Jail. Arrest records and booking reports are public records in Washington State under the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56), and citizens may request these documents by submitting a written public disclosure request to the arresting agency or the Sheriff's Office.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Skagit County are maintained by Skagit County Sheriff's Office and local police departments.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Skagit County are taken and retained by Skagit County Sheriff's Office during the booking process.
Skagit County District Court, also located at 205 West Kincaid Street (phone: 360-416-1250), has jurisdiction over misdemeanor criminal cases, civil cases up to $100,000, protection orders, and traffic infractions. 1800 Continental Place, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 • Phone: 360-416-1320 Property tax payment information and current tax amounts are maintained by Skagit County Treasurer's Office at 700 South Second Street, Room 205, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 (phone: 360-416-1750). Birth and death certificates for events occurring in Skagit County are available through Skagit County Health Department - Vital Records Division, located at 301 Valley Mall Way, Suite 110, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 (phone: 360-416-1500). Documents can be searched by grantor/grantee name, parcel number, document type, or recording date. Skagit County Assessor's Office, located at 700 South Second Street, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 (phone: 360-416-1780), maintains property tax assessment records including parcel maps, property characteristics, ownership information, assessed values, and sales history. Marriage licenses are issued by Skagit County Auditor's Office at 700 South Second Street, Mount Vernon (phone: 360-416-1704), with a license fee of $164 and a three-day waiting period. Skagit County Auditor's Office, located at 700 South Second Street, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 (phone: 360-416-1704), is responsible for recording and maintaining land records including warranty deeds, quit claim deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, reconveyances, liens, easements, covenants, and plat maps for all properties within Skagit County.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 388 mine sites inside the county: 46 past producers, now closed, 145 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 80 sites producing when the record was made, 3 processing plants, which are not workings, 114 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 200 holes drawn inside the county, 5 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Nickel; Chromium; 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. Washington has no state abandoned mine land program page; the survey's coal mine maps are the record.
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.
Skagit County lies on the edge of the Skagit County Area 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 Washington Geological Survey, Coal Mine Map Collection and linked below.
Washington 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 92 investigations in Skagit County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $768,762 in back wages agreed for 627 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hughes Farms, Inc | Mount Vernon | 7 | $315,343 | 124 |
| Equilon Enterprises LLC | Anacortes | 3 | $225,679 | 202 |
| Lifeskills Connection, Inc. | Sedro Woolley | 1 | $87,092 | 71 |
| PACCAR Inc. | Mount Vernon | 2 | $56,229 | 26 |
| Four Season Buffet, LLC | Burlington | 1 | $26,014 | 4 |
| Granite Holdings, LLC | Burlington | 2 | $20,715 | 32 |
| Cascade Ag Services, Inc. | Mount Vernon | 2 | $17,082 | 12 |
| Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc | Burlington | 3 | $15,215 | 125 |
| Pioneer Spirit, LLC | Anacortes | 1 | $4,679 | 6 |
| Schuh Stephen C & Susan M | Mount Vernon | 1 | $4,561 | 5 |
| El Gitano Restaurant IV, Inc. | Sedro Woolley | 1 | $4,293 | 5 |
| B.C. Cypress Construction, Inc. | Mount Vernon | 1 | $3,129 | 13 |
| Snelson Companies, Inc. | Sedro Woolley | 1 | $2,510 | 2 |
| Eagle Healthcare, Inc. | Burlington | 2 | $1,335 | 1 |
| Hilda Rodriguez | Mount Vernon | 2 | $666 | 3 |
| HS & C Inc | Mount Vernon | 1 | $575 | 13 |
| El Gitano Restaurant I | Burlington | 2 | $555 | 1 |
| Doloree A. Staton | Mount Vernon | 1 | $451 | 1 |
| Ambrosia QSR Burger, LLC | Mount Vernon | 1 | $356 | 2 |
| Chinook Enterprises | Mount Vernon | 1 | $19 | 1 |
| Hayton's Berry Farm, Inc. | Mount Vernon | 9 | $0 | 0 |
| Hayton Berry Farm, Inc. | Burlington | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Agricultural Production Inc | Mount Vernon | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Sakuma Brothers Processing, Inc. | Burlington | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Sears Holding Corporation | Burlington | 2 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 63 on the Skagit County record; 20 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 38 more with smaller records are on the Washington wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Skagit Auditor distinguishes historic recorded-document research from its current search around the 1973 transition and explains that records are located through the grantor and grantee index. A photocopy costs $1 for each page. For a certified document, the opening page costs $3; subsequent pages cost $1 apiece. Read the Recording Department research and copy FAQ. For an entry near the transition, ask which index contains the instrument rather than assuming a missing result ends the search. Retain the recording number and parties, then inspect the legal description and attached plan. A parcel map and an actual recorded survey serve different research purposes.
The Assessor publishes valuation-office contacts at 700 South Second Street, Room 204, and telephone 360-416-1780. Check the Assessor office information for the correct inquiry route. Save the parcel reference before asking about a property characteristic or assessed value. The Treasurer handles the tax-payment side and publishes a separate office in Room 205 with telephone 360-416-1750 through its tax and payment service information. A payment receipt does not establish the history of ownership, and a deed does not explain every assessment entry. Organize the parcel account, recorded instrument and tax receipt as distinct records when reviewing the property.
The County Clerk preserves Superior Court filings and exhibits for criminal, civil, domestic, probate and other listed case types. The Clerk service description explains the court-record function and access rules. Give the case number and identify the judgment, order or exhibit sought. For divorce research, the court file is distinct from an Auditor marriage record. An adoption or confidential family document does not become public simply because other material in the court system is searchable. If the question concerns a hearing outcome, identify the signed order or court minutes rather than relying only on a calendar entry announcing that the hearing was scheduled.
Skagit allows free public case-data viewing through Odyssey and free inspection of available public documents at Clerk lobby kiosks. Remote document access follows a subscription, listed at $200 per user when paid before January 15, with prorated terms after that date. Certified copies remain a separate purchase. Review the Odyssey registration and access explanation. Decide whether you need a single certified order, occasional courthouse inspection or continuing remote document access. The available categories and confidentiality exclusions matter more than the mere presence of a login screen. Retain the case reference when moving between case-data and document services.
Skagit Public Health issues qualifying Washington birth certificates from July 1, 1907 forward and directs certain earlier Skagit birth entries to the Auditor. Death coverage follows different filing dates and electronic-record conditions. Fees start at $25, and applicants for certified copies must provide proof of identity and a qualifying relationship. The birth and death instructions distinguish coverage and certificate products. An informational copy cannot be used for a legal purpose. Establish the event date and the required product before ordering, especially when a genealogy inquiry later becomes a request for a document needed by an insurer, court or other institution.
Public Health is at 301 Valley Mall Way, Suite 110, Mount Vernon, with general weekday hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Its current service directory provides the location and contact details. Certificate processing ends before general closing under the certificate instructions, so confirm transaction intake when planning a visit. Bring the completed application and the proof supporting your eligibility; a copy of the event information alone does not establish your relationship. If a representative is applying, check the authorization requirements before travel. Keep the destination separate from the Auditor and Assessor offices, which use a different county building.
Skagit lists a marriage-license fee of $164 and an optional certified copy at $3. Applications are accepted on regular weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the license has the stated waiting and validity requirements. The marriage service instructions also announce special office closures. Confirm the application and payment have been received before planning around a valid date. A person ordering an existing marriage record should identify where the license was issued and the spouses, rather than repeat the new-license application. Check the posted closure notice when arranging an office visit, because a normal weekly schedule does not account for every announced closure.
The Sheriff publishes a police-report request procedure with an online portal and written-request options. Use the Sheriff report instructions to identify the submission route. State the incident date, location and report number when known, and identify any specific media sought. A request still requires review under the rules governing that material. The Corrections Division provides detention and visitation information. A current custody entry and an investigative report answer different questions. If a municipality handled the incident, identify that agency before asking the Sheriff for a file that may never have been created or held by the county office.
Skagit public-record services link separately to recorded instruments, court records, vital certificates, minutes and general requests. Start with the county records-routing directory. Describe the existing records, responsible department and date span. Under RCW 42.56.520, the agency must respond within five business days using one of the statutory options, including an acknowledgment with a reasonable estimate; this is not a guarantee of full production within that period. The response statute explains those options and clarification procedures. Retain the confirmation and any estimate, and respond when the agency asks for information needed to distinguish the intended records.
Where to go
Each office below was read on its own site. A field the office does not publish is left out rather than filled in from a directory.
Recorded instruments, marriage records, certified copies and historical indexes.
Office page: skagitcountywa.gov
Superior Court files, public kiosks, certified copies and portal registration.
Office page: skagitcountywa.gov
Eligible birth and death certificates and informational copies.
Office page: skagitcountywa.gov
Assessment accounts, property characteristics and valuation inquiries.
Office page: skagitcountywa.gov
Police reports, records requests and Sheriff services.
Office page: skagitcountywa.gov
Straight answers
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Skagit County Sheriff or a city police department in Skagit County. Ask that agency for its record. Under RCW 70.48.100 the jail register (name, date, time and cause of confinement, and release) is open to the public, but other records of a person confined in jail are confidential and go only to criminal justice agencies and the others the law lists. Law enforcement may use booking photographs to investigate crimes, and photographs of people convicted of a sex offense may be released under the sex offender notification laws.
The Washington criminal history record comes from the Washington State Patrol, Identification and Background Check Section. Run a name and date of birth search online through WATCH (Washington Access to Criminal History), or send the Request for Conviction Criminal History form or a fingerprint card to PO Box 42633, Olympia WA 98504-2633. Fee: $11.00 for a WATCH name search online; $32.00 for the Request for Conviction Criminal History form; $58.00 for a fingerprint card.
Search the Washington Sex Offender Public Registry (Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county auditor (the county elections office; King County Elections in King County) or through the Washington Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Online and mail registrations must be received 8 days before Election Day; you can register in person at a county elections office until 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Skagit County are kept by the Skagit County auditor. Property values are set by the county assessor, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Washington come from the Washington State Department of Health Vital Records. Local health departments in Washington also issue certificates; check with your local health department for the certificates it offers and whether it serves people in person. By mail with check or money order to PO Box 9709, Olympia, WA 98507, online or by phone through VitalChek, or in person by appointment at the Tumwater office. Fee: $25 for each certified or informational birth certificate.
Business entity filings are searched with the Washington Secretary of State, Corporations and Charities Division. More than 200 cities and towns, and some counties for their unincorporated areas, issue their business license endorsements through the state Business Licensing Service at the Department of Revenue; a city or county not on its lists must be contacted directly.
The Auditor identifies historic and current searches around its 1973 transition. Read the Recording research FAQ. Ask which index applies to an instrument near that boundary.
The Auditor lists $3 for the first page and $1 for each additional page of a certified document. Ordinary photocopies are $1 per page. See the copy-fee guidance.
The Clerk describes free public case-data viewing through Odyssey and free document viewing at its lobby kiosks. Remote document access and certified copies follow separate terms. Review the portal-access explanation.
No. The Clerk says certified copies must still be purchased from its office even when a subscriber can view and print public documents. Consult the subscription instructions. Identify the specific certified order needed.
The current office is at 301 Valley Mall Way, Suite 110, Mount Vernon. Its contact information supplies the telephone and schedule. Check certificate-processing hours before arriving.
Certified copies require the specified qualifying relationship and proof of identity. Informational copies follow a different process and cannot be used for legal purposes. Read the certificate eligibility and product instructions.
The current county instructions list $164 for a license and $3 for an optional certified copy. Use the marriage-license guidance. An existing-record copy is a different product from a new license.
No. The law allows specified responses, including acknowledgment with a reasonable time estimate and requests for clarification. Review RCW 42.56.520. Preserve the response and track the stated next step.
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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.