Mississippi, Lee County
Where Tupelo's records are kept. Tupelo has its own city government, 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 Tupelo's own offices, along with State of Mississippi offices; the Lee County offices are on our Lee County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Tupelo City Council, with seven ward members, meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at City Hall, 71 East Troy St., and posts its agendas and minutes and a request to speak form.
Open official site Tupelo City CouncilPolice & jail
Tupelo Police Department posts yearly crime statistics, department policy, Crime Stoppers and citizen action request links, and its Community Oriented Policing and Citizens Review Board details.
Open official site Tupelo Police DepartmentMunicipal court
Tupelo Municipal Court hears city ordinance cases such as speeding tickets and code violations, takes fine payments online and posts trial and arraignment dockets. Office hours run 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Open official site Tupelo Municipal CourtCity records
The Department of Development Services on the third floor of City Hall, 71 East Troy Street, takes permit applications by email or in person, each with a recorded deed and completed application.
Open official site Tupelo Permitting and ApplicationsCity records
Tupelo Water and Light provides city power and water service, with online bill payment, paperless billing, residential and commercial rates, rental lights and water quality reports.
Open official site Tupelo Water and LightPolice & 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
Mississippi Department of Corrections home site with an inmate search and a parolee search by name or MDOC ID number, plus victim registration, the inmate handbook and public records requests.
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
13 more Tupelo sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Tupelo, a place of 37,923 people, is the seat of Lee County. Court and property records sit with Lee County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Tupelo's own offices are in the cards above, and our Lee 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 named mine site inside the city or town limits, 1 of them worked out or abandoned; 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 Clay.
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.
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.
Straight answers
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Deeds for property in Tupelo are recorded by the Lee County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Lee 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.