Kootenai County, Idaho Public Records

Kootenai survey codes, separate court requests and recorded-copy products

Search Kootenai surveys and corner filings in the real-estate index

The Recorder's current search instructions place imported plats, surveys and corner-perpetuation filings in the real-estate system. Use section, township and range with code SS for surveys, SP for plats and SL for land-corner records. The office also describes modern recorded-document research from 1996 onward while holding county records since 1881. Those descriptions should not be treated as identical coverage claims. Preserve the instrument number and document class with a search result, especially when the same legal description appears in several surveys or filings. A failed name search may need a legal-description or older-index search before a conclusion is drawn.

Order the recorded pages and certification as separate components

The Records Research instructions provide free viewing through the Recorder gateway and office copies at $1 per page, plus $1 for certification. A mail request can identify the instrument number, book and page, parties, recording date and document type. The web instructions and the linked form differ on return-postage details, so obtain the current return-mail amount from the office rather than assuming that copying and delivery have the same price. Keep the request tied to the actual recorded document. A map image, an index entry and a certified instrument are different products even if all concern the same parcel.

Do not price a Kootenai deed as a generic first-page filing

The recording schedule uses flat instrument charges for many common filings: a deed costs $15 and a mortgage or deed of trust costs $45 for up to 30 pages. Pages beyond that limit add $3 each. Other document types can use a $10 first-page charge plus $3 per additional page, so there is no single first-page price for every instrument. The office requires original mailed or counter documents and does not accept recording submissions by email. Select the document type, identify associated instruments and check the recording requirements before tendering a filing or calculating its total.

Use the District Court channel rather than the general county form

The county request gateway excludes marriage-license and court-document requests from its general process and directs municipal police or city planning matters to the city. The Clerk division instructions provide the separate District Court form and a drop-off point at 324 West Garden Avenue. County mail uses the District Court Records Department at P.O. Box 9000.

The District Court request form lists ordinary copies at $1 per page and certification at an additional $1. Specify the case and document, including whether certification is needed. A request for an existing filed order differs from asking staff to answer a legal question or create a new summary.

Ask for a certificate or a decree according to the intended use

Idaho's marriage and divorce record explanation distinguishes a divorce certificate showing that the event occurred from the court decree containing its terms. State marriage and divorce coverage begins in May 1947, and those certificates remain confidential for 50 years. For a decree, use the court in the county that granted the divorce.

The Kootenai marriage instructions require a signed, notarized affidavit for corrections to an issued license. A new license application is a separate service from correcting or obtaining a copy of the completed record. For state certificate orders, posted processing instructions distinguish processing from mailing and say rush service cannot be added after an order has been submitted.

Obtain the right property identifier from the right Kootenai office

The GIS and mapping instructions send parcel-number and short-legal-description inquiries to the Assessor, while the Community Development Department supplies a service address. A service address, tax parcel and recorded legal description answer different identification questions. Save the full legal-description reference before returning to the Recorder search, particularly for acreage or a land-corner document that has no useful street-address label.

The Assessor directory links parcel information and maps and identifies its ownership-tracking and valuation role. Compare those records with the recorded instrument when following a transfer. An assessment account is a research lead; it does not replace reading the deed and referenced survey.

Investigations closed

252

Back wages agreed

$1,971,581

Workers due back wages

3,027

Civil money penalties

$604,441

Employers on the record

207

The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 207 on the Kootenai County record; 83 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 182 more with smaller records are on the Idaho wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.