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Tippecanoe County Office Second Floor
20 North 3rd Street
Lafayette, IN 47901 |
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Office Hours:
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Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm |
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 The Office of Recorder was the first Constitutional Office in County Government in Indiana.
The Tippecanoe County Recorder's Office records, maintains and preserves permanent public records involving over 130 different types of documents. Generally, these documents are recorded either for giving legal public notice or for safekeeping and future reference and retrieval. The Recorder maintains the legal basis for determining ownership and forming the foundation of private property. The Recorder makes a complete, accurate and permanent record of every document pertaining to the conveyance and encumbrance of land to be recorded within Tippecanoe County, while retaining the records in archival form and accessible to the public. We have records from 1826 to present. Our records from 1986 to present are indexed into the computer system. Scanned images exist for documents recorded from 1992 to present.
The recording process includes receiving the document to collect information at the counter, indexing, scanning, and double-checking the information before returning the document. Scanned documents and the documents in old books are maintained by microfilm; large-sized documents are also scanned, microfilmed and stored. Microfilm is stored off-site and out-of-state for preservation purposes. We have a 24-hour turn around time for returning your documents. The staff of the Recorder's Office is available at all times to assist the public in retrieval of records. We accommodate requests for information concerning genealogy and locate and retrieve personal documents - such as DD214 military discharges, deeds, and oversized documents such as plats.
The Recorder's Office is responsible for some Uniform Commercial Code filings. Since the Revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, we only receive documents for recordation concerning fixture filings. We continue to receive all terminations for previously recorded UCCs.
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765-423-9352
