Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Marion County Records Inventory
Land Title Registers
1906-1971
Series records the ownership of land within the county. Records may include title registers, land indexes, land registration registers, torrens registry of titles, indexes to registered land, certificates of title, town lot indexes, ownership registers, and plat books. Information includes parties involved, land descriptions, dates, number and nature of titles, subdivisions, title holders, terms, discharge dates, and registrar's signatures. The torrens system of land registration was abolished in 1972 by Oregon law. Additional land ownership records may be found in Deeds and Indexes.
Records at the Marion County Courthouse, County Clerk's Recording Office
Vault:
Cancelled Certificates [Transfer Certificate of
Title], 1907-1968 (1.65 cu.ft.);
Land Registration Docket [with index], vol. 1-2, 1906-1924
(2 volumes);
Register of Titles, vol. 1-3, 1907-1968 (3 volumes);
[Torrens File-Index], 1909-1971 (1 volume);
[Torrens File-Numerical Case Register], 1907-1964 (1
volume);
Torrens Memorial Documents [Registration of Title], no.
1-6201, 1907-1971 (9 cu.ft.);
[Torrens Register of Titles], vol. 1-3, 1907-1931 (1 reel of microfilm);
[Tract Index of Registered Lands], ca.1909-ca.1968 (1
volume).
Records at the Marion County Courthouse, County Clerk's Recording
Office:
[Torrens Memorial Documents-Registration of Title-with gaps], no.
1-6201, 1907-1971 (7 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Courthouse Square Building, Assessor's Map Room, Room 2233:
[Land Ownership Maps-includes deed references-hand colored], n.d. (1 volume).
Records at the Marion County Archives:
Cabinet No. 4 Quarter Section & Subdivision Plats
[includes land ownership information], ca.1941-ca.1958
(ca.200 plats);
Surveyor's Land Descriptions [Legal], ca.1924-ca.1943 (1
cu.ft.);
Town Range [Land Ownership Description Record], n.d. (1
volume);
TR [Town Range-Land Ownership Description Record], n.d. (5
volumes).