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Find the right office in Smith 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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Court records
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Texas, with the court location, contacts and the case records it keeps.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of TexasProperty records
Smith County Appraisal Search, the office that values property for tax, with parcel data, assessment records and appeal information.
Open official site Smith County Appraisal SearchPolice & jail
Tyler Police Department Records Data Management Unit 903-531-1065 or 903-531-1064
Open official site Smith County Criminal RecordsCity records
Smith County Historical Society, with the newspaper pages, archive records and local history material it holds.
Open official site Smith County Historical SocietyState records
Smith County's health office runs the services the county pays for and keeps the records of the programs it administers, which are closed where they name a patient.
Open official site Smith County Indigent Health CareFederal
United States Census Bureau figures for Smith County, Texas, with population, housing, income and business counts from the latest estimates.
Open official site Smith County U.S. CensusProperty records
Tyler Geographic Information Systems: Maps of data for different Smith County projects and departments.
Open official site Tyler Geographic Information SystemsPolice & jail
Smith County Sheriff, the elected county law enforcement office, with incident reports, warrants and jail information as the office publishes them.
Open official site Smith County SheriffCity records
Tyler Pounds Regional Airport: Tyler airline schedules and reservations, public parking information.
Open official site Tyler Pounds Regional AirportCity records
Tyler Public Library serving Smith County, Texas, with the catalog, branch information and the local history and reference collections it holds.
Open official site Tyler Public LibraryCity records
Tyler Parks and Recreation runs the city's parks, its trails and its recreation centres in Smith County, and lists each facility with its hours.
Open official site Tyler Parks and RecreationEverything else, organized
25 more Smith County sources not listed above.
Local record guide
County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Smith County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Smith County.
Police Departments. Smith County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Smith County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments such as the Tyler Police Department, Lindale Police Department, and Whitehouse Police Department. Each department has jurisdiction within its respective city limits, while the Sheriff's Office covers the broader county area.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Smith County Sheriff's Office, located at 227 North Spring Avenue, Tyler, TX 75702, is the primary law enforcement agency serving unincorporated areas of Smith County. Smith County Jail and Law Enforcement Center houses inmates and provides an online inmate search system accessible through the Sheriff's Office website, allowing the public to locate current inmates by name or booking number, view booking dates, charges, and bond information.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Smith County are maintained by Smith County Sheriff's Office and local police departments.
Jail & Inmate Records. The booking process involves photographing and fingerprinting individuals upon arrest, and inmates can be searched through an online inmate lookup tool provided by the Sheriff's Office.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. In Smith County, mugshots are taken and retained by Smith County Sheriff's Office during the booking process. These booking photos are part of the public record and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website or by submitting a request. Third-party websites may also host these images, but the primary source remains the Sheriff's 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 12 mine sites inside the county: 3 past producers, now closed, 4 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 3 sites producing when the record was made, 2 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 30 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Halite; Limestone, General; Gypsum-Anhydrite; Halite; Gypsum-Anhydrite; Limestone, General; Fire Clay (Refractory).
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.
Smith County sits over the Texas 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 Railroad Commission of Texas, Abandoned Mine Land data map and linked below.
Texas 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 403 investigations in Smith County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $2,496,249 in back wages agreed for 3,883 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Mission of Home Health Care, Inc. | Tyler | 1 | $294,614 | 234 |
| Judi's Carrier Service | Tyler | 3 | $154,506 | 215 |
| CHENG'S GARDEN, INC. | Tyler | 2 | $147,344 | 18 |
| Braswell Paint Company, Inc | Tyler | 1 | $124,532 | 112 |
| Troxell Custom Painting | Whitehouse | 1 | $85,079 | 70 |
| Integrity Turf Management Inc | Flint | 1 | $75,454 | 63 |
| Barrington Trucking | Lindale | 1 | $73,452 | 15 |
| Center for Creative Media | Tyler | 1 | $73,350 | 9 |
| Brookdale Senior Living Inc. | Tyler | 9 | $67,253 | 183 |
| Juan Barron II, Inc | Tyler | 1 | $57,696 | 17 |
| Hospice of East Texas | Tyler | 2 | $57,127 | 123 |
| Hmr Vsi | Tyler | 1 | $56,423 | 156 |
| Trinity Mother Francis Health System | Tyler | 1 | $54,824 | 17 |
| Tailored Foam, Inc. | Tyler | 1 | $51,743 | 63 |
| Gomez Mail Service, Inc. | Tyler | 2 | $40,394 | 4 |
| Carter Blood Care | Tyler | 1 | $38,870 | 50 |
| RMS Lifeline, Inc | Tyler | 1 | $35,100 | 5 |
| Craig's Dirt Service LLC | Lindale | 1 | $34,989 | 55 |
| Tyler ER Operations, LLC | Tyler | 1 | $30,933 | 68 |
| Chemas Auto & Tires, LLC | Tyler | 1 | $30,883 | 16 |
| CMTHAI Group, LLC | Tyler | 4 | $29,814 | 27 |
| BQJ Inc. | Tyler | 3 | $28,503 | 21 |
| Crew Logistics Inc. | Tyler | 1 | $27,427 | 7 |
| Goodwill Industries of East Texas, Inc. | Tyler | 3 | $27,046 | 110 |
| Superior Wellhead, Inc. | Tyler | 1 | $26,188 | 14 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 342 on the Smith County record; 85 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 317 more with smaller records are on the Texas wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
The County Clerk's scope statement says it is the local registrar for births and deaths occurring outside Tyler's city limits. The event location can therefore change the appropriate local request route. Do not select the office solely because the person lived in Smith County at another time. The same page identifies real property, civil, probate and misdemeanor records as separate parts of the Clerk's collection.
The official property search is linked from the Clerk and Public Information pages. Check its certified-through marker when researching a recent instrument. Another search hostname can display an older index snapshot, so preserve the county parent and active destination in the notes. A familiar county name on a search screen does not by itself establish that the service is the current county-selected route.
Smith's property service offers different search scopes for index fields and document text. A phrase found in OCR may occur within an attachment without being an indexed grantor or grantee. Inspect the complete image and identify the legal description, instrument type and recording reference. When the document refers to an earlier filing, continue from that precise citation rather than broadening a name search until a plausible-looking result appears.
The Public Information instructions distinguish County Clerk and District Clerk records from the county's general information-request route. Specify existing records and the office believed to hold them. A request for a certified judgment or a recorded deed requires the applicable clerk's product and fee, not an assumption based on a generic administrative-copy estimate. Preserve any referral so a later request does not repeat the same routing error.
The county-linked judicial portal serves court research. A docket entry can provide a cause number and filing description for a follow-up copy inquiry. It should not be substituted for a recorded-property search simply because a dispute concerns land. Conversely, a recorded judgment reference may lead to a court file without placing every pleading into the property index.
The Clerk's office offers a name-based property alert service through its public-record resources. A notification can identify a new filing to review, but it does not decide whether the instrument is valid or whether the record belongs to the intended person. Keep the alert reference with the image and any inquiry to the office. The Texas records guide supplies related statewide and judicial sources.
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 property, civil, probate, misdemeanor and local vital-record services.
Office page: smith-county.com
Straight answers
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Smith County Sheriff or a city police department in Smith County. Ask that agency for its record. Texas Business and Commerce Code chapter 109 covers businesses that publish criminal record information, arrest photographs included, taken from public records or bought from DPS and that charge $150 or more to remove it or any fee to correct it; they must keep it complete and accurate and may not publish records they know are expunged or under an order of nondisclosure.
The Texas criminal history record comes from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Crime Records. Run an online name based search of deferred adjudication and conviction records through the DPS Criminal History Conviction Name Search, or have fingerprints taken by appointment at a DPS FAST location. Fee: $10.00 for a name based check done offline through DPS; $15.00 for a fingerprint based check, plus $10 for fingerprinting at a FAST location.
Search the Texas Department of Public Safety Sex Offender Registry, or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county voter registrar or through the Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division. Texas has no online voter registration. Your county voter registrar must receive your application at least 30 days before an election; you can fill out the application online, but you must print, sign and mail it to the registrar.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Smith County are kept by the Smith County clerk. Property values are set by the county appraisal district, and tax bills come from the county tax assessor-collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Texas come from the Texas Department of State Health Services, Vital Statistics. You can get vital records in the county, city or district where the event occurred, and some local offices also provide birth records from anywhere in the state. Online at Texas.gov, by mail to Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, P.O. Box 12040, Austin, TX 78711-2040, or in person at the Austin office or a local office. Fee: $22.00 for a certified birth certificate, long or short form.
Business entity filings are searched with the Texas Secretary of State, Business and Public Filings. The State of Texas does not require a general business license; the Governor's Business Permit Office says local permit requirements must also be met.
The Clerk's scope statement specifies births and deaths occurring outside Tyler city limits; establish the event location before selecting the local custodian.
The contact block gives 200 East Ferguson, Suite 300, Tyler, TX 75702, telephone 903-590-4670.
The Clerk's Official Public Record Search link leads to smith.tx.publicsearch.us.
The active property service shows its current coverage marker, which helps distinguish a recent indexing gap from a failed search for an older record.
The search options provide separate scopes; verify any text match against the document image.
The Public Information guidance says County Clerk and District Clerk records may be obtained from those offices with their applicable fees.
The official resource list provides separate judicial and property routes; choose the collection that holds the requested record.
The Clerk introduction describes a free property-alert service; it is a notification route, not a title determination.
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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.