Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Marion County Records Inventory
Foreclosure Records
1886-1921
Series documents the activities of the sheriff and other county officials relating to the foreclosure of property in order to satisfy creditors in cases involving delinquent taxes, mortgage payments, or court judgments. Records include correspondence, sheriff's deeds and foreclosure sale records, circuit court case transcripts of foreclosure hearings, writs of execution, certificates of sale of real property, judgment orders, receipts, tax redemption records, delinquent tax sales, and tax sale certificates. Foreclosure records have been inventoried through 1920.
Records at the Oregon State Archives:
Assessment and Tax Records [Certificates of Sales of Real
Estate for Taxes-includes redemption records], 1886-1900 (.25
cu.ft.);
Assessment and Tax Records [Record of Delinquent Tax
Sales-with index], vol. 1, 1893-1905 (1 volume);
Medical Personnel Registers [Tax Receipts on Sale of
Property-for Taxes-partially used volume with Registered
Physicians and Dentists], 1887-1890 (1 volume);
Military and Draft Records [Notice of Sheriff Sale Real
Estate-partially used volume in 1893 military list], 1898-1904
(1 volume).
Records at the Marion County Historical Society Museum:
[Sheriff's Sale of Real Property on Foreclosure-Published
Notices], 1916-1921 (1 volume).