Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Clackamas County Records Inventory
Deeds and Indexes
1850-[ongoing]
Series documents the ownership of land. Series includes deeds, land sales contracts, quitclaim deeds, homestead exemption claims, corporate certificates, agreements, correction deeds, special assessments of unzoned farmland, easements, and indirect and direct deed indexes. Information includes grantor and grantee name; recording and filing dates; property descriptions; title warranties; consideration amounts; witness and recorder names; and volume and page numbers of where recorded.
Since 1967 Deeds have been filed with the Recording Instruments. Beginning in 1973 they were indexed in the Recording Index and are now indexed on computer. (Clerk and Recorder Official Filings).
Records at the Oregon State Archives:
Deed Index Direct and Indirect [title varies], 1850-1911 (28 volumes);
Deed Record [title varies], vol. B-Z, 27-72, 1855-1900 (71 volumes);
vol. 74-78, 1900-1902 (5 volumes); vol. 80, 1901-1910 (1 volume); vol. 83-84,
1902-1903 (2 volumes); vol. 86-93, 1903-1905 (8 volumes); vol. 95-97, 1906-1907
(3 volumes); vol. 99-111, 1907-1910 (13 volumes); vol. 113-121, 1909-1911 (9
volumes); vol. 123-136, 1911-1914 (14 volumes); vol. 138-146, 1914-1917 (9
volumes);
Deeds [Miscellaneous-includes a small number of land patents], 1859-1957
(.30 cu.ft.);
Receiving Book [documents the recording of deeds, mortgages, and land patents],
vol. 1-4, 1890-1910 (4 volumes);
Record of Conveyances [Quit Claim Deed Book-with index], vol. 2, 1853-1868
(1 volume);
Records [Quit Claim Deed Book-with index], 1850-1853 (1 volume).
Records at the Clackamas County Public Services Building, Clerk's Recording Office:
Deed Books, vol. A-Z, 27-698, 1850-1966 (20 feet of microfilm jackets);
Deed Index [Direct], 1851-1972 (23 inches of microfilm jackets);
Deed Index [Indirect], 1851-1972 (23 inches of microfilm jackets);
[Deeds to County Owned Land], 1909-1957 (1 reel of microfilm).
Records at the Clackamas County Assessment and Taxation Office:
[Deeds-Land Ownership Book-shows legal descriptions-title varies],
1959-2005 (ca.1765 volumes).
Records at the Clackamas County Assessment and Taxation Office, Cartography Area:
[Deeds], vol. A-Z, 27-568, 1850-1960 (294 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Clackamas County Sunnybrook Service Center, Surveyor's Office Vault:
Deed Index Book [by township and range-photocopies], 1850-ca.1976 (6 volumes);
Deed Index Book Donation Land Claims [alphabetical arrangement], 1850-ca.1935
(1 volume).
Records at the Clackamas County Sunnybrook Service Center, Engineering Office:
[Road Engineering Case Files-includes copies of deeds, road vacations, subdivision
and partition plats, maps, plans, easements, legal descriptions, and related
records], no. 12001-62011, ca.1853-present (24 cu.ft.);
Road Files By Number [Road Engineering Case Files-includes copies of deeds,
road vacations, subdivision and partition plats, maps, plans, easements, legal
descriptions, and related records], no. 12001-73001, ca.1853-ca.1997 (40 inches
of microfiche).
Records at the Clackamas County Archives:
Deed Books [copies], vol. 561-592, 1959-1961 (32 volumes);
Deed Record [title varies], vol. 147-190, 192, 194-205, 207-212, 214-219,
221-224, 227-560, 1916-1959 (407 volumes);
Deeds [Alphabetical Register and Index], 1961-1969 (9 volumes);
Grantee [Deed Index], 1971-1972 (1 volume);
Grantor [Deed Index], 1971-1972 (1 volume);
Index to Deeds Direct, 1969-1971 (1 volume);
Index to Deeds Indirect, 1969-1971 (1 volume);
Indirect Deeds [Index], 1851-1885 (1 volume).
Records at the Clackamas County Archives, Security Microfilm Storage:
Deed Indexes [Direct], 1851-1969 (20 reels of microfilm);
Deed Indexes [Indirect], 1851-1969 (19 reels of microfilm);
Deeds, vol. A-Z, 27-698, 1850-1966 (333 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Museum of the Oregon Territory, Artifacts Room:
Deed Record [title varies], vol. 79, 1901-1902 (1 volume); vol.
81-82, 1901-1903 (2 volumes); vol. 85, 1903-1904 (1 volume); vol. 94, 1905-1906
(1 volume); vol. 98, 1906-1907 (1 volume); vol. 137, 1914 (1 volume).