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 24, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Kiowa County, Oklahoma, has about 8,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. 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 Kiowa 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: Kiowa County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kiowa County
The Kiowa County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kiowa County. It reported 4 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Kiowa County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Hobart, 3,300 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Snyder, 1,229 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mountain View, 721 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mountain Park, 314 residents: 12 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 Kiowa 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.
- Hobart: 33 for 2025, 15 for 2024, 22 for 2023, 29 for 2022, 41 for 2021 and 10 for 2020.
- Mountain Park: 12 for 2025 and 2 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
- Snyder: 6 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 9 for 2023, 8 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 11 for 2020.
- Kiowa County Sheriff's Office: 4 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 6 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 8 for 2021 and 6 for 2020.
- Mountain View: 3 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 2 for 2020.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 58 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 46 in 2025 against 22 in 2024.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 41 arrests, against 35 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kiowa County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kiowa 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 2024 the jail held about 28 people, down from about 37 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 34 beds, and it ran at 109 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 Kiowa County Sheriff's Office at kiowacountyok.us/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Kiowa County), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists its inmates at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Kiowa County
For Kiowa County the place to look is the case index of the Kiowa County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kiowacountyok.us/departments/court-clerk).
Statewide, OSCN and ODCR is the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
Oklahoma is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15 a search, through the Oklahoma State 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 Kiowa County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the agency must answer promptly; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge copying at no more than 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Hobart, Snyder, Mountain View or Mountain Park: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kiowa County District Court, through the court records page at kiowacountyok.us/departments/court-clerk.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Kiowa County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Kiowa County: Hobart, Snyder, Mountain View and Mountain Park. Lone Wolf, Roosevelt, Gotebo and Cooperton 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 Kiowa County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kiowa County each year?
Hobart reported 33 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 58 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kiowa County?
Ask the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at kiowacountyok.us/departments/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Kiowa County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kiowa County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Kiowa County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Kiowa 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.