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Recorder's Office
The elective office of recorder was one of the first 4 local offices created by the Constitution of the State of Indiana in 1816. It is the primary duty of the recorder to record instruments submitted for recording and maintain those records for perpetuity.
Documents
Documents for statistical record keeping purposes fall into 4 categories:
- Deeds and other conveyances
- Miscellaneous documents
- Mortgages and other liens and their releases
- Uniform commercial code documents
What We Do
- Files Uniform Commercial Code instruments
- Records any instrument recording, providing it meets essential requirements
- Supplies copies of any instrument and certifies to those recorded, upon request
What We Record
- Affidavits
- Annexations
- Articles of Incorporation
- Assignments
- Bonds
- Cemetery Deeds
- Condominiums
- Deeds
- Delinquent Sewer Liens
- Federal Tax Liens
- Firms Doing Business Under Assumed Names
- Mechanics Liens
- Military Discharges
- Mortgages
- Other miscellaneous instruments
- Plats
- Power of Attorney
- Real Estate Contracts
- Releases
- Surveys
- Trustee Elections
Access to Online Records & E-Recording
The Jefferson County Recorder is pleased to have available two free services for providing access to Jefferson County’s Recorded documents through the web. The searchable index and image for documents area available on-line at https://www.doxpop.com.
All records including Deeds, Mortgages, Mortgage Releases and Miscellaneous records are searchable back to 1993. Low-volume searching and document viewing is available at no cost. High-volume professional searching and document images to download are available as a fee-based service.
In addition, The Recorder’s Office offers a free property watch service to our community. Any person may sign up at https://watch.doxpop.com to set a watch on his or her property and name. Participants are notified via email any time a document is filed that references the watched property or name.
Both of these services have been provided without any use of public funding (no use of tax money.) The access provided by these services is in addition to the public access already provided at the courthouse.
For additional information see our announcement here: https://blog.doxpop.com/2025/02/jefferson-county-recorded-documents-now.html, contact Amy Stephens at the Recorder’s Office; (812)265-8903, or contact Julie Pickett at Doxpop, LLC; (765)373-9248; juliep@doxpop.com
We now E-Record both transferables and non-transferables through Simplifile & CSC!
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Amy Stephens
RecorderPhone: 812-265-8903 Ext. 1540
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Recorder's Office
Physical Address
300 E Main Street
Room 104
Madison, IN 47250
Phone: 812-265-8903
Hours
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Do you accept blanket documents?
- Does the Recorder's Office have information regarding neighborhood association bylaws and restrictive covenants?
- Does the Recorder's Office provide templates or blank forms that I can fill out to prepare a lien, release, deed or other documents?
- How are the fees charged by the Recorder's Office determined and set? How are recordings requirements determined?
- How do I add or delete a name to the deed to my property?