city records
Official urban files
City records are the official documents maintained by a municipal government—birth and death certificates, property deeds, court proceedings, meeting minutes, and similar administrative paperwork.
Someone searching city records is typically tracing genealogy, verifying property ownership, or researching local history: The deed was filed in the city records in 1923.
- budgetsPlanned expense limits
- tax assessmentOfficial property valuation for levies
- ordinancesLocal government rules
- building codesLaws governing structure safety
- public hearingOfficial meeting for citizen input
legal notices · licenses · property deeds · land survey · census data · historical society · birth certificate · death certificate · utility bills · meeting minutes · affidavits · oral histories · court rulings · permits · proclamations · freedom of information · paper trail · organizational charts
- recordsworld record, record, Guinness, documents, album
- city governmentmayor's office, public servants, civil servants, municipal employees, mayors
- government documentswhite paper, laws, gazette, constitutions, official documents
- local recordsland deeds, deeds, meeting minutes
- municipal recordsmeeting minutes, ordinance, bylaw, tax rolls, code
- police recordsarrest report, police reports, incident report, case files, crime report
city recordsprivate correspondence
Confidential written communication
personal papers · private letters · sealed records · classified documents · personal letters
city recordsfederal records
Official national government documents
national archives · state records · presidential papers · county records · parish records