Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Grant County Records Inventory
Clerk and Recorder Official Filings
1990-[ongoing]
Series documents the filing of transactions, authorized by statute, with the clerk or recorder of the county for the purpose of making the transaction a matter of public record. Information includes dates filed, type and description of transactions, filing numbers, names of parties involved, amounts charged or assessed, and clerk or recorder's signatures. Series may also include alphabetical indexes that contain volume and page numbers where recorded and names of individual filing transactions. Transactions include records that were previously maintained separately, such as mortgages; deeds; military service records; federal, mechanic's, and road improvement liens; mining claims; satisfactions; judgment assignments; notarial commissions; medical and ministerial licenses; oaths; and affidavits of publication. This series is commonly referred to as the Book of Records.
Since 1990 deeds, mortgages, mining claims, and military discharges have been recorded in the clerk's Recorded Instruments.
Records at the Grant County Courthouse, Clerk's Office:
Deed Book [Recorded Instruments], 1990-1999 (6
inches of microfiche); 2000-present (10 inches of microfilm jackets);
Direct Listing [Recorded Instrument Index-title varies], 1990-present (10 volumes of computer
printouts);
Indirect Listing [Recorded Instrument Index-title varies], 1990-present (10 volumes of computer
printouts).
Records at the Grant County Courthouse, Clerk's Break Room:
Computer Beginning [Recorded Instruments], 1990-present (18 inches
of microfilm jackets).