Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Marion County Records Inventory
County Commissioners Orders, Ordinances, and Resolutions
1862-[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.
Records at the Marion County Courthouse, County Clerk's Recording Office
Vault:
Cities [Board of Commissioners Case Files-includes some
county commissioners orders, resolutions, and other records
related to cities], ca.1949-ca.1990 (7.50 cu.ft.);
Commissioners Court Petitions, Reports, Orders, Etc.
[Proceedings-includes resolutions, county officials reports,
road petitions, a small number of coroner's inquest records, and
other records], 1897-1944 (14 cu.ft.);
Commissioners Proceedings [includes minutes, orders, resolutions, proclamations, county officials reports, etc.], 1975-present (25 cu.ft.);
County Court Proceedings [includes minutes, orders,
resolutions, county officials reports and other records],
1944-1984 (25 cu.ft.);
Ordinances [County-includes zoning ordinances], no.
1-1250, 1957-present (7.50 cu.ft.);
Planning & Zoning [Case Files-includes resolutions and
other records related to comprehensive plan amendments, zone
changes, subdivisions, partitions, and other subjects], no.
2600PZ-4649PZ, 1978-1997 (25 cu.ft.);
[Planning & Zoning-Case Files-includes resolutions and other records related to comprehensive plan amendments, zone changes, subdivisions, partitions, and other subjects], no. 4651PZ-5554PZ, 1997-present (8 cu.ft.);
Register Planning and Zoning [includes references to
resolutions related to zone changes, comprehensive plan
amendments, subdivisions, partitions, and other subjects],
vol. 1, 1958-1984 (1 volume).
Records at the Marion County Courthouse, County Clerk's Recording
Office:
[Board of Commissioners Ordinances-includes zoning
ordinances], no. 1-1106, 1957-1999 (6 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Courthouse Square Building, Planning Division Conference
Room, Room 2150:
[County Ordinances-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision information], 1957-1978 (4 binders);
Marion County Subdivision Ordinance, 1974 (1 binder);
Marion County Zone Code, 1970 (1 binder);
[Marion County Zoning Ordinance], 1960 (1 binder); 1970 (1 binder);
Marion County Zoning Ordinance, 1982 (1 binder);
Marion County Zoning Ordinance No. 24 [Amended], 1969 (1 binder);
Ordinances & Amendments [Description Register-briefly describes ordinances related to comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivisions], no. 1-1212, 1957-2005 (.05 cu.ft.);
Ordinances [County-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision information], 1978-present (21 binders);
Subdivision & Partitioning Ordinance, 1962-1995 (1 binder);
Zone Code [Marion County], 1975 (1 binder); 1976 (1 binder); 1977 (2 binders).
Records at the Marion County Public Works Office Building, Surveyor's
Vault:
Road Proceedings [includes petitions, orders, resolutions
and related records], 1862-1880 (2 cu.ft.);
Road Proceedings [includes petitions, orders, resolutions,
vacations, and related records], no. 1-2059, 1881-2002 (41
cu.ft.).
Records at the Marion County Public Works Office Building, Surveyor's
Public Research Area:
Road Proceedings [includes petitions, orders, resolutions,
vacations, and related records], no. 586-1975R, 1930-1995 (27
reels of microfilm).
Records at the Marion County Public Works Office Building, Second Floor
Copy Center Room:
[Road Files-Traffic Control and Engineering Case
Files-includes maps, plans, reports, correspondence, commissioners
orders and resolutions, and related records], ca.1960-present
(80 cu.ft.).
Records at the Marion County Archives:
Commissioners Proceedings [includes county officials reports, orders, resolutions, road petitions, old age pension fund claims, and other records], ca.1921-ca.1936 (1 cu.ft.);
Ordinances [County-includes zoning ordinances- no. 1 to 319-copies], vol. 1-2, 1957-1971 (2 volumes).
Records at the Marion County Web Site:
Marion County Ordinances Online [not all ordinances represented], n.d.-present (Internet);
Marion County Rural Zone Code, n.d.-present (Internet);
Marion County Urban Zone Code, n.d.-present (Internet).