Alabama, Jefferson County
Where Vestavia Hills's records are kept. Vestavia Hills has its own police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Vestavia Hills's own offices, along with State of Alabama offices; the Jefferson County offices are on our Jefferson County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
Search the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's alert records by last name, type, status, city or state: Amber and Blue Alerts, missing children and adults, endangered persons and fugitives.
Open official site Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Community Information CenterPolice & jail
Vestavia Hills Police Department, with 110 sworn officers, offers records and reports, fingerprinting, crime mapping and statistics, tips, traffic school and animal control; City Hall is at 1032 Montgomery Highway.
Open official site Vestavia Hills Police DepartmentProperty records
Alabama Department of Revenue property tax division oversees county assessment through its annual sales ratio study and covers homestead exemptions, current use values, GIS mapping, vehicle valuation and manufactured home taxes.
Open official site Alabama Department of Revenue Property Tax DivisionState records
Researchers can visit or send requests to the Alabama Department of Archives and History, which keeps digital collections, county records on microfilm, newspapers, maps, church records and Civil War service records.
Open official site Alabama Department of Archives and HistoryCounty court
North Alabama's federal bankruptcy court sits in Anniston, Huntsville, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa and posts each judge's hearings, a 30 day attorney calendar and trustee 341 meeting reports, with case details by phone.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of AlabamaCounty court
Alabama's Unified Judicial System site serves the Supreme Court and both appeals courts, with the Appellate Courts Public Portal, AlaFile electronic filing for trial courts and the State Law Library.
Open official site Alabama Judicial SystemVital records
Divorce certificates for Alabama divorces since 1950 come from the Center for Health Statistics to anyone paying the $15 search fee, which covers one certified copy; for earlier cases, ask the county circuit court.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Divorce CertificatesVital records
Alabama's Center for Health Statistics has filed marriage certificates since August 1936, open to anyone; a $15 search includes one certified copy. Earlier records sit with the county probate office.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Marriage CertificatesVital records
The Alabama Center for Health Statistics holds birth certificates filed since 1908, restricted for 125 years to the person, close family or a legal representative. The $15 search fee includes one certified copy.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Birth CertificatesVital records
Through any Alabama county health department, usually while you wait, or by mail in about 7 to 10 days, the Center for Health Statistics issues certified birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates.
Open official site Alabama Department of Public Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency posts wanted fugitives with case number, offense category, issue date and place last seen; tips go to the agency named on each listing or to ALEA.
Open official site Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Fugitive SearchPolice & jail
ALEA's Criminal Justice Information Services keeps Alabama's registry of more than 16,000 sex offenders, updated daily from local law enforcement; juvenile, youthful offender and some out of state cases are not posted.
Open official site Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Sex Offender RegistryEverything else, organized
12 more Vestavia Hills sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Vestavia Hills, a place of 39,102 people, is in Jefferson County, whose county seat is Birmingham. In Alabama, deeds, marriage certificates, wills and estates are recorded by the Judge of Probate, which for Vestavia Hills means the Jefferson County Probate Office in Birmingham. Court cases go through the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk, and any county health department issues copies of birth and death certificates. Vestavia Hills's own offices are in the cards above, and our Jefferson 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 old survey maps record 3 holes inside the city or town limits, 3 of them shafts or tunnels.
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 Geological Survey of Alabama coal page is a script application that gives this box no readable text, so it is not listed.
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.
Vestavia Hills sits over the Appalachian Region 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 town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Alabama Department of Labor, Mine Safety office (underground mine maps) and linked below.
Alabama 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 2 investigations with a Vestavia Hills address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,560 in back wages agreed for 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell R. Pfister, M.D., P.C. | 1 | $1,560 | 3 |
| Hollywood Imports, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Vestavia Hills, by back wages agreed; 0 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Alabama wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Alabama is run by the Alabama Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Vestavia Hills.
Deeds for property in Vestavia Hills are recorded by the Jefferson County Judge of Probate, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Jefferson County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Alabama come from the state vital records office, Alabama Center for Health Statistics, and any Alabama county health department can issue copies. The state office's 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.