Grays Harbor County Recordings      

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The Recordings Section is a part of the Grays Harbor County Auditor's office. We are the repository of much of the official records of the county and have the responsibility to index the records for use by the public.

Real estate records provide a chain of ownership based on the names of the owners since the inception of the county. They include documents such as deeds, mortgages, contracts, and titles. Surveys and plat maps are filed in this office, as they are prepared, with copies available on request. Each year the two people in this section process over 20,000 transactions and maintain 800,000 indexed items on record.

Although the primary records are for real estate transactions, we also maintain a record of county commissioner meetings, marriage licenses, military discharges, and some death records. County birth and death records from 1892 up to 1907 are on file and of great use for genealogists. Other historical documents dating back to 1861 can also be found.

In 1999 the county converted from a microfilm based indexing system to one using optical scanning. An image of the document will be scanned when indexed. This will allow quicker, more convenient, access to the records.