Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Jackson County Records Inventory
Zoning Records
1958-[ongoing]
Series documents the development and implementation of codes and policies relating to the zoning of county lands and to illustrate and locate the various zoned areas within the county. Records include uniform zone codes and ordinances depicting various zoned lands in the county. Information in codes and ordinances includes definition, code/ordinance numbers, purposes, uses, conditions for use, and changes made to codes/ordinances. Maps include area and/or zone descriptions, dates created, scales, and commissioners' signatures. Areas are typically zoned for residential, industrial, commercial, flood plain, agricultural, timber, public and government, and mineral extraction uses. For best access to zoning records, contact the planning and development department office.
The Front Counter application GIS interactive maps include layers based on city and county zoning.
Records at the Jackson County Courthouse, Planning and Development
Department Basement Vault:
[Land Development Ordinance-includes zoning, subdivision, and partition information], 1989-1998 (1 binder);
Laurel's Copy 96-97 LDO [Land Development Ordinance-includes zoning, subdivision, and partition information], 1996-1997 (1 binder);
LRP [Long Range Planning Case Files-includes comprehensive plan amendment and zoning ordinance and map change information], 2003-present (7 cu.ft.);
[Miscellaneous Planning Maps-includes comprehensive plan and zoning information-rolled], ca.1995-present (ca.50 maps);
New LDO [Land Development Ordinance-includes zoning, subdivision, and partition information], 2003 (.25 cu.ft.);
OA [Ordinance Amendment Case Files-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division information], 1992-2003 (13 cu.ft.);
"Recommended LDO" [Land Development Ordinance-includes zoning, subdivision, and partition information], 2003 (.25 cu.ft.);
Redline/Strikeout 2000 LDO [Land Development Ordinance-includes zoning, subdivision, and partition information], 2000 (.25 cu.ft.);
[Zoning Maps-on assessor map base], ca.1981-present (18 volumes);
ZON [Zoning Case Files-includes ordinances information], 2003-present (15 cu.ft.).
Records at the Jackson County Courthouse, Planning and Development
Department Office:
[Zoning Maps-rolled], ca.2005-present (ca.25 maps).
Records at the Jackson County Courthouse Annex, County Clerk's Recording
Office Room 216:
Commissioners Journals [includes zoning maps], vol.
75A, 1973 (1 reel of microfilm).
Records at Record Masters of Southern Oregon:
[Comprehensive Land Use Plan Amendment Case
Files-also includes land division and zoning ordinance
amendments-multiple accessions], 1972-1990 (ca.16 cu.ft.);
[Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance Records-includes background material, drafts, elements, studies, and related records such as the 1972 comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance-03A.15], ca.1958-ca.1992 (17 cu.ft.);
[Miscellaneous Planning Department Cartographic Records-in wooden cabinets and alpha cabinets A to J-includes maps related to the comprehensive plan, zoning, and general land use topics-00A.46], ca.1968-ca.1992 (ca.20 cu.ft.);
[Zoning Ordinance Jackson County-91A.119, Box 3303], 1973 (1 volume); 1980 (1 volume).
Records at the Jackson County Library, Medford Branch:
Zoning Ordinance Jackson County, 1973-1978 (1 volume); 1980-1982 (1 volume).
Records at the Jackson County Web Site:
Jackson County
Code Online [Searchable Codified Ordinances-includes
zoning map information], ca.1972-present (Internet);
Land Development Ordinance [includes zoning and land division information], 2007-present (Internet);
Land Development Ordinance [includes zoning and land division information], 2004-2007 (Internet);
Land Development Ordinance Now Expired [includes zoning and land division information], 2000-2004 (Internet).