Recording Documents in Multnomah County

The Recorder's office is in the Multnomah Building at 501 SE Hawthorne Blvd in Room 158 on the first floor. Office hours and telephone hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday except legal holidays.

Telephone information is available at (503) 988-3034 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday except legal holidays.

Please call regarding:

• Recording fees
• Copies of recorded documents
• Verbal information from a recorded instrument, such as purchase price, transaction dates, or liens
• Correcting or re-recording of instruments

To mail an instrument, make checks payable to: Multnomah County Recorder, and mail to:

Multnomah County Recorder
PO Box 5007
Portland OR 97208-5007

This office records:

• Legal documents pertaining to real property or that may affect title to real property located within Multnomah County, Oregon.
• Military Discharges (DD-214) Requests for certified copies of Military Discharges must be made in writing on the attached form and mailed or brought in person to the Recorder's Office.   

This office cannot:

• Give legal advice
• Provide blank instruments
• Help fill out instruments
• Suggest what type of instruments to use
• Accept illegible, smeared instruments which may not provide a readable micrographic record
• Record documents other than those specified by Oregon Statutes
• Verify credit reports of any kind, although we can verify lien releases up through our index date.  For more specific update information, you may call (503) 988-3034 during our telephone business hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

When a document is received in the Multnomah County Recorder's Office, it is reviewed for compliance with statutes controlling document types and content. If the document cannot be recorded, it is returned.  Once a document has been recorded, an alphabetical index is created and maintained by date and year.

A separate index is maintained by document number. All recorded documents are scanned to digital images and are available on microfilm in our Public Research Room.  

To learn more about Multnomah County records

To research archived Oregon State records