This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release anyone, post bond, pull an official booking record, change a jail record, or answer for the sheriff, court, NCDAC, BOP, or ICE. Use the official contacts below for those actions.
Official Contacts for Custody and Records
For Yancey County jail questions, start with the sheriff and detention center. For written county public-records requests, use the county's public-records route. Court records, state prison records, and federal or immigration detention each use different systems.
Yancey County Sheriff's Office / Yancey County Detention Center
4 East Main Street, P.O. Box 6, Burnsville, NC 28714
Main phone: 828-682-2124
Detention contact / jail administrator line: 828-682-1860
Public office hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
Yancey County public-records route
Email a completed public-records request form to info@yanceycountync.gov or take it in person to the Yancey County Manager's Office, 110 Town Square, Room 11, Burnsville, NC 28714.
Yancey County court contacts
Clerk of Superior Court: 828-678-5700
Magistrates: 828-678-5730
District Attorney: 828-678-5720
- For a person in the county jail, use the sheriff's Recent Arrests feed and the steps on jail inmate records, then call 828-682-2124 if the feed is unclear.
- For booking photos, review jail roster mugshots and verify any current photo or removal question with the office that controls the record.
- For charges, hearings, and case filings after arrest, use the NC eCourts Portal or court offices described on court records after a jail arrest.
- For the local facility page, use the Yancey County Detention Center page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Offender Public Information Search. NCDAC states that its locator covers state prison, probation, and parole records, not county jail records.
- For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator when BOP custody is possible. For immigration detention, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.