Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Tillamook County Records Inventory
Clerk and Recorder Official Filings
1968-[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.
The Recorded Instruments include deeds, mortgages, and mining claims. These records were indexed separately until 1994.
Records at the Tillamook County Courthouse, Clerk's Record Room:
Direct Alpha Index [Recorded Instruments],
1994-2001 (8 volumes of computer printouts);
Index to Miscellaneous Microfilmed Records [includes
mining claims, water rights, and a few delayed birth
registrations], vol. 1-2, 1968-1994 (2 volumes);
Indirect Alpha Index [Recorded Instruments], 1994-2001
(8 volumes of computer printouts);
Recorded Instruments [no. 183200-220709], vol. 211-248,
1968-1976 (30 feet of aperture cards);
[Recorded Instruments [no. 220710-338741], vol. 248-366, 1977-1994
(40 inches of microfilm jackets);
[Recorded Instruments [no. 94.338742-03.418759], vol. 366-445, 1994-2003
(36 inches of microfilm jackets);
[Recorded Instruments, no. 2003.418760-2011.003576, 2003-present
(47 inches of microfilm jackets).
Records at the Tillamook County Courthouse, Clerk's Office:
Book of Records [Recorded Instruments], 2008-present (ca.50 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Tillamook County Courthouse, Assessment and Taxation
Department Office:
Books [Recorded Instruments-no. 239246-338741,
94.338742-95.342501], vol. 266-370, 1979-1995 (42 inches of
microfilm jackets).
Records at the Tillamook County Courthouse, Basement, Old DCD Storage Area, Assessment and Taxation Space:
Books [Recorded Instruments], no. 183200-220709, 1968-1976 (24 feet of aperture cards).
Records at the Tillamook County Web Site:
Recording
Query [Clerk's Recorded Instruments-includes index
information only], 1994-present (Internet);
Tillamook
County Document Search [includes recorded instruments
index information only], 1994-present (Internet).