Hancock County Recorder
111 American Legion Place, Suite 202
Greenfield, IN 46140
Phone: 317-477-1142
Office Hours: Monday - Friday - 8:00am - 4:00pm
Begining January 1, 2006
The County Recorders in the State of Indiana will no longer accept for recordation, a document that contains a SSN, unless the SSN is required by law to be on the document. (Ex: Federal Tax Liens, Release of Federal Tax Liens and Military Service Discharge papers)
The office of the County Recorder was
the first constitutional office in county
government in Indiana.
Duties of the Recorder's office:
To record and preserve documents and make them available
for public access
and retrieval.
When a document is mailed or delivered to be recorded; a self-addressed
- stamped envelope is required for return. The document is recorded,
imaged into the computer, microfilm is created from the images, processed and proofed. The original document
is returned in approximately three weeks from the recording date.
Title searchers and genealogy researchers can
come to the recorder's office and look for documents recorded
in 1990 forward on the computer. This information can be accessed by
name, document number, plat name, lot, section-township-range,
index and type. If the recording was prior to 1990, the deed information
can only be found under the transfer date, which can be obtained
from the Auditor's Office. This information is only available
in the record books.
All military service discharges which have been recorded (including prior to 1990) have been indexed into the computer.
