North Carolina, Bladen County
Where Tar Heel's records are kept. Court and property records for Tar Heel sit with Bladen County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Carolina.
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As a small town, Tar Heel relies on Bladen County and the State of North Carolina for its public records. The cards below are the North Carolina state offices, and the Bladen County offices are on our Bladen County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The NC Department of Adult Correction offender search covers state prison inmates, probationers and parolees back to 1972, not county jails. Court records of criminal charges come from the North Carolina Judicial Branch.
Open official site North Carolina Criminal RecordsPolice & jail
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation explains how to request a statewide criminal background check on yourself or, with consent, on another person.
Open official site North Carolina SBI Background ChecksPolice & jail
The FBI Charlotte Field Office covers North Carolina, investigating federal crimes, taking tips and listing wanted persons. Fingerprint based Identity History Summary checks are requested from FBI CJIS at edo.cjis.gov.
Open official site Federal Bureau of Investigation Charlotte OfficePolice & jail
Legislative mandated reports, audit reports and accreditation certificates for the Raleigh, Triad Regional and Western Regional Laboratories.
Open official site North Carolina Crime Laboratory DocumentationPolice & jail
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation keeps the statewide Sex Offender Registry, with name and area searches, email alerts and links to the sheriffs' offices that register offenders.
Open official site North Carolina Sex OffendersPolice & jail
The State Highway Patrol enforces traffic laws on North Carolina highways and investigates crashes. Its pages explain how to get a collision report by county, name or report number.
Open official site North Carolina State Highway PatrolState records
The North Carolina Department of Justice, led by the Attorney General, represents the state, protects consumers and runs the State Crime Laboratory. Court records come from the North Carolina Judicial Branch.
Open official site North Carolina Attorney GeneralPolice & jail
The State Capitol Police protect state officials, employees and visitors in the North Carolina state government complex and monitor alarms at state buildings. The page lists its services and contacts.
Open official site North Carolina State Capitol PolicePolice & jail
North Carolina Judicial Branch guide to criminal background checks, including certified single county record searches by name at the clerk of superior court office.
Open official site North Carolina Criminal Background ChecksPolice & jail
The NC Department of Adult Correction lists every person on North Carolina's death row, with the date received, offender number and county of conviction.
Open official site North Carolina Death RowCity records
Verify an attorney's licensing status with the State Bar.
Open official site North Carolina Lawyer LookupProperty records
The NC Secretary of State Land Records Management Section sets indexing and mapping standards for county land records and keeps annexation and boundary files. Deeds and mortgages are recorded by each county Register of Deeds.
Open official site North Carolina Land RecordsEverything else, organized
Local record guide
What we hold on Tar Heel, and who keeps its records.
Local profile
Tar Heel, a place of 90 people, keeps its own council and town business records. Elizabethtown, the county seat, is where the county offices are. Our Bladen County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 4 investigations with a Tar Heel address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $19,518 in back wages agreed for 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithfield Farmland Corp. | 1 | $19,063 | 4 |
| Lineage Logistics LLC | 1 | $455 | 3 |
| Richardson & Son Tires | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Tar Heel, by back wages agreed; 1 employer has a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The North Carolina wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Same county
Other places in Bladen County. A town page lists that town's own offices where it has them; Bladen County records are on the county page.