Massachusetts, Middlesex County
Where Waltham's records are kept. Waltham has its own clerk's office, police department, permit and planning office and utility office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Waltham's own offices, along with State of Massachusetts offices; the Middlesex County offices are on our Middlesex County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City Clerk on the second floor of City Hall, 610 Main Street, oversees Waltham elections, keeps official city records and the City Seal, maintains ordinances and serves as Records Access Officer.
Open official site Waltham City ClerkPolice & jail
Waltham Police Department at 155 Lexington St takes online reports for identity theft and lost or stolen items, handles permit requests and runs a Police Public Records Center and tip line.
Open official site Waltham Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Waltham Police Records Division, open weekdays 7:30 to 3:30, releases crash and incident reports and fills most public records requests within 10 business days through its records center.
Open official site Waltham Police Records DivisionCity records
The Building Department at the Government Center, 119 School Street, Room 25, enforces city and state building codes and takes permit applications in person, with online fee payment and issued permit reports.
Open official site Waltham Building DepartmentCity records
The Water Billing Office at the Arthur Rhodes Municipal Center, 163 Lexington Street, handles final water bills, abatement requests, current rates and online payment of water and sewer bills.
Open official site Waltham Water and Sewer BillingPolice & jail
The Massachusetts Department of Correction points to VINELink, an outside service online or by phone, to find someone in its prisons by full name or commitment number.
Open official site Find Someone Housed in a Massachusetts PrisonVital 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
The U.S. Department of Justice runs NSOPW, which searches the public sex offender registries of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories and Indian Country by name or location.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsitePolice & 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 WantedFederal
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
The federal judiciary's PACER service lets registered users search and download filings from every federal court for 10 cents a page, 12 cents from January 2027; small quarterly bills are waived.
Open official site Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)State records
The Massachusetts Archives, under the Secretary of the Commonwealth in Boston, holds state vital records from 1841 to 1935, census copies, Port of Boston passenger lists and naturalization abstracts.
Open official site Massachusetts ArchivesCounty court
The court has locations in Boston, Worcester and Springfield and posts its calendar, notices of sale, video and phone hearing details, local rules and forms, with PACER for case files.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, District of MassachusettsCounty court
Massachusetts Trial Court site for looking up case information and paying some court fees online. Its data is not the official court record and may lack the latest activity.
Open official site Massachusetts Trial Court Case AccessEverything else, organized
17 more Waltham sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Waltham, a place of 65,218 people, is in Middlesex County, whose county seat is Cambridge. Deeds are recorded at the registry of deeds that serves Middlesex County, Waltham's town clerk keeps copies of birth and death certificates, and court cases go through the Massachusetts Trial Court. Waltham's own offices are in the cards above, and our Middlesex 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 past producers, now closed, 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 2 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are crushed stone; 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. No abandoned mine inventory is published; the survey's host does not answer this box, both urls are in the search index.
Massachusetts 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 64 investigations with a Waltham address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,864,127 in back wages agreed for 4,005 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresenius Medical Care North American | 1 | $532,967 | 3,000 |
| Huamulan, Inc. | 1 | $211,413 | 55 |
| Partners Home Care, Inc. | 1 | $180,259 | 22 |
| W.H. Hughes, Inc. | 6 | $137,566 | 13 |
| Eaton Horticultural Landscape, Inc. | 1 | $90,437 | 51 |
| Softworld LLC | 1 | $86,485 | 43 |
| De La Vega Painting, LLC | 2 | $65,616 | 15 |
| Salguero Masonry Corp | 1 | $65,016 | 10 |
| The Friendly Pig, Inc. | 1 | $50,772 | 18 |
| Prospect Cafe and Pizzeria LLC | 1 | $42,387 | 11 |
| Farrington Associates, Inc. | 1 | $41,501 | 0 |
| Weston Racquet Club, Inc. | 1 | $35,982 | 31 |
| The Upper Crust-Waltham, LLC | 1 | $29,347 | 6 |
| Yaa Corporation | 1 | $23,024 | 3 |
| J.N.Phillips Company, Inc. | 4 | $22,575 | 21 |
| Harrison Global LLC | 1 | $20,144 | 89 |
| Cambridge Institute of Inttl Education Corp | 1 | $15,882 | 13 |
| NASDI, LLC | 1 | $10,095 | 52 |
| The Chateau of Waltham | 1 | $8,494 | 26 |
| Global GP LLC | 1 | $7,671 | 1 |
| The Piano Man, Inc. | 2 | $6,615 | 2 |
| Gustazo-Cuban CAF, LLC | 1 | $6,092 | 22 |
| Interior Stone, LLC | 1 | $5,089 | 2 |
| Praxair | 1 | $4,893 | 31 |
| New York Life Insurance COmpnay | 1 | $4,765 | 161 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 49 whose address on the record is in Waltham; 19 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 24 more with smaller records are on the Massachusetts wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Massachusetts is run by the Massachusetts Elections Division and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Waltham.
Deeds for property in Waltham are recorded by the registry of deeds that serves Middlesex County, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Middlesex County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Massachusetts come from the state vital records office, Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, and the town or city clerk can also issue copies. The state office's site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Businesses that operate in Waltham register with the Massachusetts Corporations Division, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Waltham requires one, comes from the town or Middlesex County.
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.