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County Recorder

Chapter 11-8

The county recorder's office is one of the offices formally organized by the Constitutional Convention of 1889. County recorder officers are elected to four-year terms that begin January 1.

The information filed and recorded in the recorder's office is used by the auditor, treasurer, commissioners, and other county officials, along with the general public and business entities. The real estate record is the basis for the auditor's assessment rolls and the tax collection process of the treasurer.

County Recorder Duties


  • Maintains any and all types of documents that affect title to real property. 
  • Keep record of each paten, deed, mortgage, bill of sale, security agreement, judgement decree, lien, certificate of sale and and other instruments required to be filed or recorded upon receipt of the filing or recording fees. Each recorded document also shall state the date, hour, and minute when the document was filed or recorded. Many of these records have been digitized and are available to the public in the office of the North Dakota Recorder's Information Network's (NDRIN) website. 
  • Assist the public in finding information as found in the real estate record.
  • Furnish upon request (written or by telephone) to person information contained in financing statements to perfect a security interest pursuant to Chapter 41-09 when the collateral is farm products and provide written confirmation of the oral information provided upon receipt of a fee which shall be the same as for recording that instrument.