Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Kit Carson County, Colorado, has about 7,100 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Kit Carson County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Kit Carson County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kit Carson County
The Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kit Carson County. It reported 51 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Kit Carson County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Burlington, 3,171 residents: 83 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kit Carson County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Burlington: 83 for 2025, 124 for 2024, 155 for 2023, 134 for 2022, 116 for 2021 and 108 for 2020.
- Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office: 51 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 22 for 2023, 115 for 2022, 70 for 2021 and 36 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 134 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 134 in 2025 against 176 in 2024, down 24 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 63 arrests, against 63 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kit Carson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kit Carson County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2022 the jail held about 8 people, down from about 22 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022 was 52 beds, and it ran at 14 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office at kitcarsoncounty.colorado.gov/kcc-sheriff/detention-center (page title: Detention Center | Kit Carson County), phone 877-998-5678, 1650 Donelan Ave, Suite 103, Burlington, CO 80807, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Colorado Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Kit Carson County
For Kit Carson County the place to look is the case index of the Kit Carson County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/kit-carson-county, phone 970-542-5252).
Colorado is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public, through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Kit Carson County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances, and it may charge research and retrieval time after the first hour, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-998-5678.
- An arrest in Burlington: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kit Carson County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-542-5252.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/node/9186 (page title: Record/Document Request Form | Kit Carson County | Colorado Judicial Branch).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Kit Carson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the six cities in Kit Carson County: Burlington. Stratton, Flagler, Bethune, Seibert and Vona have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Kit Carson County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kit Carson County each year?
Burlington reported 83 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 134 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kit Carson County?
Ask the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office at 877-998-5678; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at kitcarsoncounty.colorado.gov.
Where are people arrested in Kit Carson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kit Carson County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Colorado Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Kit Carson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/node/9186.
Is this the official Kit Carson County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.