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 on September 24, 2026.
Washita County, Oklahoma, has about 11,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Washita County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Washita 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: Washita County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Washita County
The Washita County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Washita County. It reported 22 arrests for 2025.
One city in Washita County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Burns Flat, 1,916 residents: 7 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 Washita County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Cordell: 56 for 2025, 50 for 2024, 31 for 2023, 23 for 2022, 44 for 2021 and 36 for 2020.
- Washita County Sheriff's Office: 22 for 2025, 17 for 2024, 16 for 2023, 45 for 2022, 43 for 2021 and 45 for 2020.
- Burns Flat: 7 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 15 for 2022, 18 for 2021 and 8 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 85 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 85 in 2025 against 72 in 2024, up 18 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 42 arrests, against 61 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Washita County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Washita County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 45 people, up from about 14 in 2018. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Washita County Sheriff's Office at washitaso.gov/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Washita County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Washita County
Whether someone was arrested in Washita County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Washita County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; OSCN and ODCR, the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Washita 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 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 Washita County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Burns Flat: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Washita County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the ten cities in Washita County: Burns Flat. New Cordell, Sentinel, Corn, Canute, Dill City, Bessie, Rocky, Colony and Foss have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Cordell Police Department as a city agency in Washita County; Cordell is not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Washita County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Washita County each year?
Cordell reported 56 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 85 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Washita County?
Look on the custody page of the Washita County Sheriff's Office at washitaso.gov/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Washita County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Washita County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Washita 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 Washita County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Washita 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 Washita 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.