Recording Schedule of Fees

Make checks payable to the Clackamas County Clerk
(No personal checks will be accepted for marriage licenses)

Please provide a 4" x 2" space on the top right-hand corner of the first page of documents to be recorded for our recording certificate.

Please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your document.

Example of fees for a one page document (note exceptions cited below):

 RecordPLCA&TOLISAHAHCGISTotal
Deed Records+$5+$30+$10+$1+$60+$2+$5$113
Mortgage Records+$5+$30+$10+$1+$60+$2+$5$113
Lien Records+$5+$0+$10+$1+$60+$2+$5$83
Death Certificate

+$5

+$0

+$10

+$1

+$60

+$2

+$5

$83

The above cited fees are:

  • PLC = Public Land Corner (Surveyor)
  • AH = Affordable Housing
  • A &T = Assessment and Taxation
  • AHC = Clackamas County’s Affordable Housing Collection
  • OLIS = Oregon Land Information System
  • GIS = Clackamas County’s GIS

The additional $5 fee for each multiple title transaction remains the same.


Updated 7/1/2026

Fee Exceptions

All documents are subject to the following fees, except as noted:

The $60 Affordable Housing fee (HB 2417 and HB 4007) applies to all recordings except the following instruments:

  1. Instruments otherwise exempt from recording or filing fees under any provision of law
  2. Any satisfaction of judgment or certificate of satisfaction of judgment
  3. Internal county government instruments not otherwise charged a recording or filing fee
  4. Instruments required under ORS 517.210 to maintain mining claims
  5. Warrants issued by the Employment Department pursuant to ORS 657.396, 657.642 and 657.646
  6. A certified copy of a judgment, a lien record abstract as described in ORS 18.170 or a satisfaction of a judgment, including a judgment noticed by recordation of a lien record abstract
  7. The Department of Revenue is exempt from paying the fee under subsection (1)(c) of this section
$60
Clackamas County’s Affordable Housing Collection$2
Assessment and Taxation Fee 
Per instrument recorded except Satisfactions of Judgment
$10
Oregon Land Information System Fee (OLIS) 
Per instrument recorded except Satisfactions of Judgment
$1

Public Land Corner Preservation Fee (PLC Surveyor)
Per instrument recorded pursuant to ORS 205.130(2)

Death Certificates are excluded.

$30
Geographic Information Services Fee ( GIS ) 
Per instrument recorded except Satisfactions of Judgment
$5

Recording Fees

Per side of each page$5
For each additional release, assignment or satisfaction embodied in one document - an additional$5
For each additional transaction embodied in one document - an additional$5
Nonstandard document fee for noncompliance of first page requirements (ORS 205.234) and/or page/print size (ORS 205.232)- an additional$20
Plat Recording fee$45
Over 100 lots, each additional lot$0.10
Public Land Corner (PLC - Surveyor) fee - an additional$30
Oregon Land Info System Fee - an additional$1
A & T Fee - an additional$10

Other Fees

Surveyor's Fee for Affidavit of Correction of Survey or Plat (in addition to recording fees)$175
Surveyor's Fee for Street Vacation Ordinance (in addition to recording fees)$180
Marriage License $60
Request for Waiver of 3-day Waiting Period for Marriage License$15
Wedding Ceremony $117
Marriage License Amendment$20
Domestic Partnership$60
Copies of Recorded Records
Search, $3.75, plus $0.25 for first page copy$4
Each additional page$0.25
Certification of Copies$3.75
San Francisco plat map
Each copy$0.50
Certification$3.75
Mailing Tube$1.25
Postage, if mailed$3.00
Total, if certified and mailed$8.50

Phone:503-655-8551
Fax:503-650-5688
Email:recording@clackamas.us

1710 Red Soils Ct, Suite 110, Oregon City, OR 97045

Office Hours:

Monday – Friday  
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Document recording services stop at 4:30 p.m.

The Recording Division is overseen by the County Clerk. Clerk Catherine McMullen is the head election official for the county and the keeper of all county public records.

e-Recording submitters:  
Simplifile  
support@simplifile.com  
CSC  
erecording@cscglobal.com  
ePN  
support@GOePN.com

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