About the US County Clerks Directory

What this directory is

The United States has 3,144 counties and county-equivalents. Each one keeps its own land records, and the office has a different name from state to state — County Clerk, Recorder, Register of Deeds, Judge of Probate. This site puts all of them on one map, with the statewide rules for deeds, marriage licenses, vital records and assumed-name filings.

We are an independent reference. We are not a government agency, we cannot record or certify documents, and we do not give legal advice.

Where the data comes from

• Boundaries, FIPS codes, land area, population: U.S. Census Bureau (Gazetteer files, population estimates, cartographic boundaries via the public-domain us-atlas package).
• Which office records deeds and issues marriage licenses: state law, reviewed state by state (October 2026), with the exceptions that matter — New York City’s Office of the City Register, Philadelphia’s Department of Records, Broward County’s Records Division, town-based land records in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, and statewide recording in Alaska and Hawaii.
• Recording-office address, phone and hours — checked on official websites: for the largest counties we read the recording office’s own website and link to the exact page we used, with the date we checked it.
• Recording-office address, phone and hours — OpenStreetMap: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). We use an OpenStreetMap entry only when its name is the office that records deeds in that state; a family court, DMV or city clerk is never presented as the recorder. Phone numbers must belong to the county’s state.
• Official county websites: Wikidata (property P856, matched by county FIPS code), with the CISA .gov domain registry as a fallback.
• Statewide fees and rules: base amounts from the cited state statute. Rows marked “checked” were confirmed against an official source; counties add their own surcharges, so the county fee schedule is the final word.

What we do not do

We never generate or guess a phone number, an address or opening hours. If we have not verified a county’s recording office yet, its page says so, points you to the official county website and is kept out of search engines until it has been checked.

Corrections

Found something wrong or outdated? Send us a correction with an official link — or fix the office directly in OpenStreetMap, for future source updates; changes do not automatically appear until this directory is refreshed.