Shtip District Department was established in 1956. Since 1986 the District Department has been functioning in a new adapted building with a Record Room. It has jurisdiction over the communities of Shtip, Karbinci, Sveti Nikole, Lozovo, Probishtip, Zletovo, Kochani, Chreshinovo, Obleshevo, Zrnovci, Orizari, Vinica, Blatec, Delchevo, Makedonska Kamenica, Radovish Konche and Podaresh. Its scope of functioning includes 275 registar's offices. The Reading Room is at the users' disposal from 8.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. every working day.
Archive records xerox copying is available to the users.
In the Archive Department there are 403 archive groups and 22 archival collections at the users' disposal. The oldest documents, within the frame of archive groups and collections in the District Department, originated from 1880, following by the records from the beginning of the 20th century, while the main part are the records created after 1944.