Whitley County Recorder
Verified contact and record scope for deeds, mortgages, plats, and recorded instruments.
Whitley County Recorder is the Whitley County contact for deeds, mortgages, plats, and recorded instruments. The official county or Indiana court source was checked July 28, 2026; verify hours and procedures again before travel.
Contact
- Address: 220 West Van Buren Street, Suite 206, Columbia City, IN 46725
- Phone: 260-248-3106
- Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Published responsibilities
- Record and retrieve deeds, mortgages, releases, plats, and other instruments.
- Search by grantor-grantee names, instrument numbers, book and page, or legal descriptions.
- Publish recording requirements and current fee information on the official site.
Historical connection
The county Files Department lists mortgage ledgers from 1843–1942, entry books from about 1877 to March 1992 with some years missing, and chattel mortgages from 1885–1902.
Where this office’s responsibility stops
A recorded deed documents an instrument; it is not the Assessor’s valuation, the Treasurer’s payment record, or a surveyor’s opinion about a corner. Recorder material can establish a chain of instruments, but title interpretation belongs to qualified legal professionals.
Make a useful Whitley County Recorder request
Bring the grantor and grantee names, a recording-date range, legal description, parcel reference, and any book-page or instrument number. Ask for the exact recorded image and all continuation pages rather than relying only on a search-result summary.
Verification notes
The linked Recorder page is used for the current office contact. The separate county archival inventory supports the older mortgage, entry-book, and chattel-mortgage ranges; neither source is stretched to claim that every instrument is digitized.
Connected guides
deeds and mortgages · plats and maps · land chain guide