About the County Clerk & Recorder Directory

Quick answer: A free directory of the 910 county recording offices — the County Clerk, County Recorder, Register of Deeds, or Clerk & Recorder, depending on the state — where oil & gas mineral deeds, leases, and title records are filed across 11 states. The office contact details are public record; Valor compiles and standardizes them into one directory and claims no ownership of the underlying facts.

What this directory is

Every U.S. county has a public office that records deeds, oil & gas leases, mortgages, division orders, and other instruments affecting real property and mineral title. Its name varies by state — County Clerk (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, West Virginia), County Recorder (North Dakota, Ohio), Register of Deeds (Kansas), Clerk & Recorder (Montana), Recorder of Deeds (Pennsylvania), and County Clerk and Recorder (Illinois). This directory lists all 910 of them across the 11 states below, each with the office's address, phone, and — where the county publishes one — a link to its official website.

Why Valor maintains it

Valor is a mineral management firm. Owners and title researchers constantly need to find the right recording office to confirm ownership, trace a chain of title, or pull a recorded lease. Rather than send people hunting county by county, we aggregate the offices into one consistently structured directory and connect each to the owner-education resources a mineral owner actually needs. We do not buy or sell minerals, and listing an office is not an endorsement — it is a public-records signpost.

Sources & methodology

Source of record: each office's details come from that county's own official website or public government listing — the county is the authoritative custodian of its records.
Standardization: we normalize each entry to the same fields (office name, county, city, mailing address, ZIP, phone, official website) so the directory is consistent across states.
Review cadence: the directory is reviewed and refreshed periodically; government contact details change, so we treat every entry as a starting point to be confirmed against the county's official source.
No proprietary claim: the underlying contact information is public-record fact. Valor's contribution is the aggregation and presentation, not the facts themselves.

Coverage & source status

910 offices across 11 states. All 910 carry a phone number and mailing address; 817 link to an official website. Where a county publishes no website — common for smaller rural counties — we list the phone and address only rather than link to an unofficial page. That gap is shown honestly below rather than hidden.

State	Recording office	Counties listed	With official website	Source status
Texas	County Clerk	251	251	Complete
Oklahoma	County Clerk	77	47	30 list phone & address only
New Mexico	County Clerk	33	33	Complete
North Dakota	County Recorder	53	53	Complete
Kansas	Register of Deeds	105	105	Complete
Wyoming	County Clerk	23	23	Complete
Montana	Clerk & Recorder	56	56	Complete
West Virginia	County Clerk	55	5	50 list phone & address only
Pennsylvania	Recorder of Deeds	67	67	Complete
Illinois	County Clerk and Recorder	102	92	10 list phone & address only
Ohio	County Recorder	88	85	3 list phone & address only
Total		910	817	93 without a published website

Using this data

The underlying contact information is public-record fact. Valor asserts no proprietary rights over it. You are free to use this directory and the downloadable file below; please verify any detail against the county's official source before relying on it.

Download the full directory (CSV) — public data, no rights reserved.

Corrections

Found an office that has moved, merged, or changed its number? Tell us and we will verify it against the county's official source and update the entry.

Key Takeaways

What it is: a public-records signpost to 910 county recording offices across 11 states.
Who owns the data: nobody — it is public fact. Valor aggregates and standardizes it and claims no rights over it.
How complete: phone and address for all 910; official website for 817; the remaining 93 are shown with the gap disclosed.
Need title help? Valor can pull recorded instruments and run title chains — learn more.

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Last reviewed: 2026-08-04. Coverage figures on this page are generated live from the directory.