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Find the right office in Washington County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Court records
Phone contacts for the divisions of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, with links to Search ARCourts case records, circuit clerk and judge directories, and self help resources.
Open official site Arkansas Administrative Office of the CourtsState records
Claim It Arkansas is the unclaimed property program of the Arkansas Auditor of State, which collects money reported by banks, businesses and agencies and returns it to owners who file a claim.
Open official site Arkansas Unclaimed PropertyPolice & jail
Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center sex offender registry by address, city, county, zip code or name, and sign up for notices when an offender moves near an address.
Open official site Arkansas Sex Offender Registry SearchPolice & jail
Current posting of fugitives and absconders in the state of Arkansas.
Open official site Arkansas Most WantedPolice & jail
How and where to request records from Arkansas FBI.
Open official site Federal Bureau of Investigation Little Rock OfficeCounty court
Search online calendar of pending active criminal cases.
Open official site Arkansas Judiciary Criminal Court Docket SearchPolice & jail
Search the Arkansas Crime Information Center for registered offenders by name or location.
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Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Arkansas Secretary of State.
Open official site Arkansas Business & Corporation SearchState records
The Arkansas Attorney General is the state's lawyer and chief law enforcement officer, issuing legal opinions and handling consumer and robocall complaints. Court records are kept by the Arkansas Judiciary and county circuit clerks.
Open official site Arkansas Attorney GeneralPolice & jail
Apply for or renew an Arkansas concealed handgun carry license and check its status, and find State Police services such as highway safety programs and criminal background checks.
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Find general info and check name availability with the Arkansas Secretary of State.
Open official site Arkansas Fictitious Business Names FilingsState records
Verify processional and state issued licenses to individuals and entities.
Open official site Arkansas Professional and State License VerificationLocal record guide
County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Washington County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Washington County.
Police Departments. Washington County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Washington County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments. Each department has jurisdiction within its respective city limits, while the Sheriff's Office covers the unincorporated areas.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement in Washington County, Arkansas is primarily conducted by Washington County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 1155 W. Clydesdale Drive, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Arrest records in Washington County are public documents under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), codified in Arkansas Code Annotated § 25-19-101 et seq.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Washington County are maintained by Washington County Sheriff's Office. Residents and attorneys can request arrest records by contacting the Sheriff's Office directly.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Washington County are taken and retained by Washington County Sheriff's Office during the booking process. These booking photos are part of the public record and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website or by request.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 24 mine sites inside the county: 21 past producers, now closed, 3 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 35 holes drawn inside the county, 6 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Limestone, Dimension; Sand and Gravel, Construction; Limestone, Dimension.
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.
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.
Arkansas 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 524 investigations in Washington County since fiscal 2005 and recorded $3,591,751 in back wages agreed for 5,545 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 433 on the Washington County record; 96 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 408 more with smaller records are on the Arkansas wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
The county Archives land-record guide describes deeds and mortgages from 1834 through 1991 and directs records created since 1992 to the Circuit Clerk. A property history crossing that boundary needs both routes. Retain the old book/page and party names before switching systems. An instrument recorded in the later period may cite an earlier document that remains part of the archival collection rather than appearing through the same search interface.
Archives identifies grantee indexes as the reverse or buyer index and grantor indexes as the direct or seller index. If the known person acquired the property, begin with the buyer side; if tracing an earlier owner's disposal, examine the seller side. Preserve the name spelling and volume reference rather than transcribe only a modern address. This is particularly useful when a parcel changed configuration or a family held several nearby tracts.
The Archives collection list includes plats and surveys but expressly locates their originals at the Circuit Clerk's Office. A historical map can establish context without being the appropriate copy for a present-day transaction. Preserve its title, series and date, then ask for the original recorded reference when needed. Do not infer that a map showing a road or parcel is a current survey of its boundary.
The Circuit Clerk public-record inventory includes domestic relations, civil, criminal and juvenile case work as well as indexed land instruments and liens. The office's custody of a category does not establish unrestricted public access to every file within it. Identify the proceeding and the exact document sought. A recorded lien or judgment affecting land may require a separate request for the underlying court file and its disposition.
The current Circuit Clerk listing gives 280 North College Avenue, Suite 302, Fayetteville, AR 72701, telephone 479-444-1538, and weekday hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The office links court searches separately from indexed land records and liens. Select the correct collection before searching by name, and preserve the search route with the result so a later inquiry can be reproduced.
The document-types page includes easements, protective covenants, releases, assignments, plats and surveys alongside deeds and mortgages. That range can guide a property-history search beyond the initial transfer. Follow an instrument's actual cross-references rather than assume that all documents with the same surname concern the same tract. The Arkansas records guide supplies state and judicial sources when the county records point to another custodian.
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Each office below was read on its own site. A field the office does not publish is left out rather than filled in from a directory.
Circuit case files, current land instruments and original plats/surveys.
Office page: washingtoncountyar.gov
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Washington County Sheriff or a city police department in Washington County. Ask that agency for its record. Under Arkansas Code 4-75-102 (Act 450 of 2021), a person may ask a publish for pay website in writing to remove his or her booking photograph; the site must remove it within five business days and may not charge a fee for removal.
The Arkansas criminal history record comes from the Arkansas State Police. Online search through the Arkansas State Police systems on ark.org: Criminal Background Checks with consent or legal mandate, or Open Criminal History for any other purpose. Fee: $22 per search for checks mandated by law or with the subject's signed consent; $24 per search on the Open Criminal History system for other personal searches.
Search the Arkansas Sex Offender Registry (Arkansas Crime Information Center), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county clerk or through the Arkansas Secretary of State. Arkansas has no online voter registration. Submit the application to a voter registration agency or mail it no later than 30 days before the election; the postmark counts as the submission date.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Washington County are kept by the Washington County Circuit Clerk, as ex officio county recorder. Property values are set by the County Assessor, and tax bills come from the County Collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Arkansas come from the Arkansas Department of Health, Vital Records. The Department of Health offers vital records services in every county through its Local Health Units, which take walk in birth certificate requests. Online through vitalrecords.egov.com, by phone toll free at (866) 209-9482, by mail to Vital Records, Slot 44, 4815 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72205, or in person at a Local Health Unit or the Little Rock office. Fee: $12 for the first copy of a birth record and $10 for each additional copy of the same record ordered at the same time.
Business entity filings are searched with the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services.
The land-record guide describes 1834 through 1991 and directs later records to the Circuit Clerk.
The collection description identifies the grantee or buyer index as the reverse index.
The guide identifies grantors or sellers.
The archival inventory says original plat records are at the Circuit Clerk's Office.
The guide lists survey records from 1967 through 1995 and locates originals with the Circuit Clerk.
The public-record inventory includes divorce, custody, paternity and other domestic-relations proceedings, subject to applicable access restrictions.
The official listing gives 280 North College Avenue, Suite 302, telephone 479-444-1538.
The Circuit Clerk page provides distinct links for court cases and indexed land records and liens.
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