Mississippi, DeSoto County
Where Southaven's records are kept. Southaven has its own clerk's office, police department, municipal court, permit and planning office and utility office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Southaven's own offices, along with State of Mississippi offices; the DeSoto County offices are on our DeSoto County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The Southaven City Clerk at City Hall, 8710 Northwest Dr., keeps the minutes of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, the ordinance book and city financial records, and issues privilege licenses.
Open official site Southaven City Clerk's OfficePolice & jail
The Southaven Police Department at 8691 Northwest Drive, Southaven, MS 38671 posts a department calendar, news, a concern report form and links to records and forms.
Open official site Southaven Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Southaven police documents and digital media, such as reports and video, are requested on this online department form, which asks for all known details to find the record.
Open official site Southaven Police Department Public Record RequestMunicipal court
The Southaven Court Department at 8912 Northwest Dr. handles arrests, bonds, court dates and tickets, posts weekly court times and takes ticket and fine payments online or by phone.
Open official site Southaven Court DepartmentCity records
The Southaven Department of Building takes permit applications and inspection requests through its Civic Access self service portal and posts building code adoption notices.
Open official site Southaven Department of BuildingCity records
The Southaven Utility Department, a city owned utility since 1980, provides drinking water and wastewater service to homes and businesses and works around the clock.
Open official site Southaven Utility DepartmentPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
MDOC home page with an inmate search by first and last name or MDOC ID number, a parolee search and a facilities finder, plus information for families, victims and the public.
Open official site Mississippi Department of CorrectionsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
State archives guide to family research: death records from 1912 to 1943 on microfiche (no birth records), county marriage books on microfilm, census returns, Dawes Rolls and Confederate pension files.
Open official site Mississippi Department of Archives and History GenealogyCounty court
Bankruptcy court for north Mississippi at the Thad Cochran U.S. Courthouse in Aberdeen, with hearings only in Oxford and Greenville. Posts court news, notices and vacancies.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of MississippiCounty court
Website of the Mississippi courts with Supreme Court and Court of Appeals dockets and briefs, appellate opinions since 1996 and live oral arguments; trial court files sit in the subscriber, fee based PAMEC portal.
Open official site State of Mississippi JudiciaryEverything else, organized
14 more Southaven sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Southaven, a place of 54,648 people, is in DeSoto County. Court and property records sit with DeSoto County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Southaven's own offices are in the cards above, and our DeSoto 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 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed; the old survey maps add 9 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 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.
Southaven 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 town. 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 62 investigations with a Southaven address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $280,525 in back wages agreed for 492 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FSG Southaven, LLC | 2 | $48,904 | 24 |
| H-2A Complete II, Inc. | 2 | $47,155 | 66 |
| Boss Wings Enterprises, LLC | 1 | $20,645 | 173 |
| Nyrio Investments Corporation | 1 | $18,497 | 8 |
| Wireless Communications, LLC | 1 | $15,471 | 19 |
| Saileela Investment LLC | 1 | $14,816 | 4 |
| Brown Christian Academy | 1 | $14,432 | 16 |
| North Delta Hospice & Pallative Services LLC | 1 | $13,995 | 11 |
| Memphis Children's Clinic PLLC | 1 | $11,508 | 1 |
| KinderCare Education, LLC | 1 | $10,811 | 6 |
| House of Grace | 1 | $9,880 | 18 |
| ZMH, LLC | 1 | $9,430 | 9 |
| CRI Electrical | 1 | $9,207 | 15 |
| Desota Honda, LLC | 1 | $5,920 | 17 |
| Desoto Eye Care, Inc | 1 | $5,521 | 15 |
| AM Enterprize, Inc. | 1 | $4,235 | 13 |
| Crouch Reporting | 1 | $3,770 | 1 |
| Ambika Corporation | 2 | $2,928 | 10 |
| Desoto Development Inc. | 1 | $2,370 | 15 |
| Desoto Thyroid & Endocrinology | 1 | $1,866 | 10 |
| Cobra, Towing, Inc. | 1 | $1,531 | 9 |
| Progressive Physicians Practice | 1 | $1,521 | 7 |
| Crown of Life School and Daycare, Inc. | 1 | $1,424 | 13 |
| Open Arms Healthcare Agency, Inc. | 1 | $1,302 | 4 |
| Dixie Queen International, Inc. | 1 | $1,262 | 3 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 45 whose address on the record is in Southaven; 16 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 20 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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Deeds for property in Southaven are recorded by the DeSoto County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our DeSoto County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Mississippi come from the state vital records office, Mississippi 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.