Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Clackamas County Records Inventory
County Commissioners Orders, Ordinances, and Resolutions
1859-[ongoing]
Series documents orders, ordinances, and resolutions passed by the board of county commissioners and the county court regulating and establishing guidelines for specific activities within the county. Information includes activity covered by order, ordinance, or resolution; administrative action number; who introduced; findings of fact; conclusions; recommendations; date heard; and hearings officer name and signature. Activities include noise abatement, nuisances, zoning, animal control, solid waste management, land division regulations, elections, comprehensive plan, and road and bridge use limits.
Board Orders are indexed from 1991-present and imaged from 1999-present on computers available in the Clerk's Recording Office.
Records at the Clackamas County Public Services Building, Clerk's Recording Office:
Commissioners Board Orders [and Journals-title varies-volumes 4-34 with
index], vol. 4-285, 1871-2001 (159 reels of microfilm);
Commissioners Orders [and Journal Index], 1939-1999 (209 sheets of
microfiche);
[Subdivision Ordinances & Regulations-includes partitions], 1974
(3 sheets of microfilm jackets);
[Zoning Ordinances, Amendments, and Districts Records], 1960-1978 (1.50
inches of microfilm jackets).
Records at the Clackamas County Public Services Building, Clerk's Recording Office,
File Room:
Board of Commissioners Orders [Order Number Report-includes journal information],
1992 (1 volume).
Records at the Clackamas County Sunnybrook Service Center, Planning Office:
Amendments to Zoning and Development Ordinance, 1961-1978 (1 binder);
Amendments [to Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1981 (1 binder);
Clackamas County Subdivision and Partition Ordinance, 1974 (1 binder);
Clackamas County Zoning Ordinance, ca.1984-present (1 binder);
Comp. Plan with Ordinance Change Amendments [Comprehensive Plan-includes zoning
ordinance changes], 1989 (1 binder);
Historical Ordinance Compilation [Zoning and Development Ordinance], ca.1994-present
(4 binders);
Reprint/Update of 1960 ZDO [Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1965 (1 binder);
ZDO [Comprehensive Plan and Zoning and Development Ordinance Legislative
Amendment Records], no. 2-204, ca.1980-present (20 cu.ft.);
ZDO [Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1960 (2 binders); 1980 (1 binder).
Records at the Clackamas County Sunnybrook Service Center, Planning Office Phone Room:
Amendments [to Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1961-1978 (1 binder); 1981
(1 binder);
Historical Ordinance Compilation [Zoning and Development Ordinance], ca.1994-present
(4 binders);
Reprint 1965 ZDO & Amendments [Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1978
(1 binder);
Update of 1960 ZDO [Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1965 (1 binder);
ZDO [Zoning and Development Ordinance], 1960 (1 binder); 1980 (1 binder); 1997
(1 binder); 1999-2002 (1 binder); 2002 (1 binder).
Records at the Clackamas County Archives:
Comm. Journals [Commissioners Journal Administrative Records-includes
orders], 1932-1934 (.50 cu.ft.);
County Court [Commissioners Journal Administrative Records-includes orders
and road petitions], 1927-1929, 1941-1942 (1 cu.ft.).
Records at the Clackamas County Archives, Security Microfilm Storage:
[Commissioners Journals and Orders], vol. 2-286, 1859-2002 (135 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Clackamas County Web Site:
Clackamas
County Code, n.d.-present (Internet);
Clackamas
County Zoning Ordinance [includes land division information],
n.d.-present (Internet).