The Harris County Clerk’s Office has land records from when the Republic of Texas was formed in 1836 to the present day. The Public Records Department’s role is to assist the public in looking up these land records, along with marriage licenses, DBA’s and other miscellaneous personal records. The department will also issue both certified and non-certified copies of these documents.
Vist our Document Portal to register your account in order to view or print (with the unofficial watermark) copies online.
Teneshia Hudspeth, Harris County Clerk
Attn: Public Records Department
P.O. Box 1525
Houston, TX. 77251
The Harris County Clerk’s Historical Records warehouse has public records in book form dating back to 1836 when the Republic of Texas was formed until the late 1950’s. The records housed there include land records, plats, maps, county court and probate court records, marriage licenses, birth and death records and military discharge records. The records can be researched during office hours (8:00 am – 4:30 pm) and copies issued upon request. The warehouse is located at 11525 Todd Street, Suite 300, Houston TX 77055.
In November of 2002 the Commissioners Court created the Harris County Archives to document the government and people of Harris County through county records and private donations. The archives collections include records from county departments (example: Medical Examiner, Juvenile Probation, Auditor), elected officials (example: County Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace), and private donations (Charles Brace, Hobbs Scrapbook Collection, Amerman Photograph Collection). Records include maps, photographs, audio and video, scrapbooks, bound materials, newspapers, microfilm, and born digital records.
Research for this department is by appointment. For reference requests please contact the archives at 713-274-9680 or by email to archives@.cco.hctx.net . For further information please visit our Harris County Archives website at http://www.harriscountyarchives.com/.
For customers interested in purchasing electronic files of records filed with the County Clerk’s Office, both index and image data are available by date range. The index data we provide is generated from the information in the source documents and are text (.txt) files that are pipe delimited for ease when importing into a variety of programs. The image data we provide are TIFF (.tiff) files and available for most of the documents recorded in the County Clerk's office. Both forms of data are purchased separately and are available in any custom date range delivered on CD or DVD, or customer provided hard drive. Additionally, we offer FTP access which provides daily data, purchased monthly, of most of the records in the County Clerk's office.
For additional information, contact the Data Sales desk by navigating to our contact form and selecting 'Data Sales'. Or by phone at 713-274-6390.
The first Tuesday of every month an auction is held at the Bayou City Event Center located at 9401 Knight Road, Houston, TX 77045.
The Notices of Trustee Sale are filed and posted 21 days in advance of the auction at the County Clerk’s Office at 201 Caroline, 3rd floor and are also available on our website.
