This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.

Birth and death records between 1893 and 1905

Location: Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans’ Court offices, Level L, Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Fee: $5 per name research and retrieval fee; $10 certification fee; $2 per copy

Birth and death certificates for 1906 until now

Location: state office building, Division of Viatal Records

Address: 101 S. Mercer St., New Castle

Website: www.health.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx

Fee: $20 for birth and death certificates; $10 processing fee

Issuer: Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission

Website: www.fishandboat.com

Cost: $22 unpowered boat, $26 motorboat under 16 ft., $39 motorboat 16-20 ft., $52 motorboat 20 ft and over, $50 commercial passenger boat, $10 transfer of registration, $2 agent fee

Location: Butler County Treasurer’s Office in the Butler County Government Center,

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Online Regstration: www.doglicenses.us/PA/Butler and www.butlercountypa.gov/364/treasurer.

Fee: $8.70 for dog license. $6.70 for someone 65 and older or disabled, $1.70 for duplicate license

Location: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Driver’s License Center

Address: Pointe Plaza, New Castle Road, Butler

Website: www.dmv.pa.gov.

Fee: $45.50 initial learner’s permit and four-year license, $39.50 renewal

Location: many stores or the Butler County Treasurer’s Office in the Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Online registration: www.huntfish.pa.gov

Fee: $27.97 for residents, $14.97 for a trout stamp. $86.97 for a lifetime fishing license for 65 and older. $14.47 for annual senior license. $9.97 to fish in Lake Erie or its tributaries

Nonprofit organizations in certain municipalities are required to obtain a license for all small games of chance. Various requirements and more information is available at www.butlercountypa.gov/377/Fundraising-Licenses.

Location: many stores or the Butler County Treasurer’s Office in the Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Online registration: www.huntfish.pa.gov

Fee: $20.97 adult hunting licenses, $6.97 junior license, $13.97 senior one-year licenses, $51.97 senior lifetime license; visit www.pgc.pa.gov for a complete list of fees.

Location: Butler County Prothonotary Office on the first floor of the Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Website: www.travel.state.gov/fees

Cost: $165 people age 16 and older, a check for $130 must be made out to the U.S. State Department and a separate check for $35 must be made out to the Prothonotary Office; $135 people age 15 and younger. Applicants must apply in person by appointment only.

Location: Butler County Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court offices, Level L, in the Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Website: www.butlercountypa.gov/291/Register-of-Wills-Orphans-Court

Fee: $60 for license, $5 certification of marriage license

Location: Butler County Recorder of Deeds office on Floor L in the Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Website: www.butlercountypa.gov/262/Recorder-of-Deeds

Location: Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court, Level L, Butler County Government Center

Address: 124 W. Diamond St., Butler

Website: www.butlercountypa.gov/291/Register-of-Wills-Orphans-Court

Fee: $5 if the office must research the will, $1 per page copied or $2 per page copied if certified status.