Preserving the Past to Protect the Future

The Yavapai County Recorder has put your tax dollars to work by providing you with the latest in technological advances to serve you.

We are now pleased to announce our new on-line grantor/grantee index, with images available from 1976 to current.  Also, the complete index of mapping images are now available on line.

The county recorders' office records documents, as required by law, to be public record. Instruments recorded include real estate transactions, mortgages, deeds of trust, family trusts, personal property, tax liens, mining locations, subdivision plats, records of survey, military discharges, official appointments of office, and other documents required to be made of public record.

The Recorder is responsible for the classification, indexing, and preservation of all recorded documents in Yavapai County since 1864. Public records are also maintained on microfilm according to national archival standards.

With two full-service offices to serve you, one in Prescott and one in Cottonwood, the Yavapai County Recorder’s Office is one of the largest in the state in numbers of annual recordings, recording 106,609 documents in 2007.

By Statute the Recorder’s Office is in charge of Voter Registration for Yavapai County. In 1997, as directed by the Board of Supervisors, the Election Department was placed under the Recorder’s Office. In 2005 Records Management was also placed under the direction of the Recorder’s Office. Additional information may be obtained by contacting the Recorder’s Office.

It is the commitment of this office to ensure that we stay on the leading edge in our field, and provide excellent customer service.

We welcome suggestions and comments and look forward to hearing from you.