Wyoming, asset search
Wyoming's official collection guide explains a bank-garnishment period that can reach money held and received during the stated 30-day window. That is different from assuming every levy is a one-instant snapshot. The court's service, response and exemption steps still control the outcome.
An asset appearing in a public record is not automatically available to pay a judgment. This guide separates the public-record search from private financial information and the Wyoming collection process.
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| Record to search | Responsible office or system | What to verify |
|---|---|---|
| Deeds, mortgages and recorded land claims | County Clerk for recorded land documents | Current recorded owner, later transfers, releases and competing claims |
| Tax parcels and assessed values | County Assessor | Parcel identity and assessment period; not current loan payoff or collectible equity |
| Company filings | Secretary of State | Exact entity, available filing history and disclosed roles; not a complete private ownership schedule |
| UCC collateral filings | Secretary of State | Debtor name, collateral, amendments and lender claims; not proof of unencumbered ownership |
| Court judgments and case documents | The Circuit or District Court responsible for the judgment and its clerk | Exact parties, orders, later activity and whether a judgment is owed by or owed to the subject |
Search the current deed owner and separately recorded mineral or lease rights when relevant. A Wyoming company filing may be only the start of an interstate search; the entity's actual property or bank may be elsewhere. A registered-agent address is not an asset location.
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Wyoming Courts describes requesting a writ of garnishment, serving the bank or other third party, obtaining its answer and handling funds through the court process. Identify the exact debtor, institution and judgment balance before requesting the writ.
The official guide describes bank garnishment reaching relevant funds held and received during a 30-day period. Use that state rule rather than a California-style assumption about later deposits. The amount reached still depends on ownership, protections and the actual bank response.
Arrange authorized service and track the return, answer and any objection or exemption request. The court's self-help materials include separate enforcement and garnishment resources; use the current forms for the correct court level.
Follow the instructions for money paid into court and its release. A writ, a bank hold and a completed payment are separate events. A prior account clue or a balance from an earlier date does not guarantee the result of the 30-day process.
The applicable official starting points are Wyoming Courts: enforcing a money judgment, Wyoming Courts: garnishment. Use the current issuer's forms and instructions for the particular case.
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For land, mineral interests or equipment, establish the exact interest the debtor owns and the existing claims against it. A company formed in Wyoming may hold property in another state, where different recording and enforcement requirements apply. Search the asset's actual location, not only the formation address.
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The Census Bureau's 2020-2024 estimates report an owner-occupied housing rate of 71.8% and a median value of owner-occupied housing of $309,700 in Wyoming. The rate refers to occupied housing units, not a percentage of people. The value is not an estimate of equity available to creditors. Census QuickFacts: Wyoming.
Recorded land and mineral interests where relevant, company tracing and equipment financing offer useful public leads. The 30-day bank-garnishment explanation is a distinctive local fact that can change collection planning.
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Confirm the period and effect of the issued writ, the correct court and the complete notice packet. Do not promise either an instantaneous payout or unlimited capture of future deposits.
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A Wyoming divorce is decreed by the district court of the county in which either party resides, and the Clerk of District Court, an elected county official, keeps the case record. The Wyoming Rules Governing Access to Case Records, in force since February 5, 2024 and amended in 2025 and 2026, make every case record fully accessible to the public under Rule 3(a) unless the Access Security Matrix, a court order under Rule 5, redaction under Rule 7 or a statute restricts it. The statute that matters in a divorce is W.S. 20-2-308(d): all financial affidavits and the records required by law to be attached to them constitute a confidential file, open to persons other than the parties, their attorneys and the Department of Family Services only by court order.
Wyoming's sworn form is the Confidential Financial Affidavit, which W.S. 20-2-308(a) requires before any child support order and which the Supreme Court's self help packets number by packet, DIVCP 11 in the divorce with children plaintiff packet. It covers personal information, education, the children, the party's work and employer, work history, income, taxes and expenses and ability to pay, with income tax returns and W-2 forms for the last two years and a statement of earnings from each employer attached, since 20-2-308(b) requires documentation of current and past earnings, and it is sworn under oath. Its only asset item is a short list of assets and their values, with a checking account, a pickup truck and an insurance settlement given as examples, and it has no separate schedule of bank accounts or real property. Fuller asset detail appears in the Initial Disclosures under W.R.C.P. 26(a)(1.1), whose schedules cover bank accounts, real and personal property, debts, employment income and retirement accounts, and the disclosures are served on the other party and not filed with the court. The public asset document is therefore the Decree of Divorce, filed with the Clerk of District Court, whose state form recites the division of property: real property, motor vehicles by year, make, model and VIN, a general award to each party of the bank accounts, investment accounts and retirement accounts held in that party's sole name unless the decree sets out otherwise, the division of debts by creditor and the amount and duration of any spousal support.
Wyoming offers no remote public access to district court filings; the Judicial Branch states that filed documents are available for free public viewing at designated access terminals in courthouses across the state and at the Wyoming State Law Library. A non-party goes to the Clerk of District Court in the county where the divorce was filed, where inspection of the case record and viewing on the public access terminal are free under Rule 12, and copies cost $1 for a single page document and 50 cents for each additional page under W.S. 5-3-206, with certification 50 cents. Under Rule 5 any party, any person about whom information appears in the record, or the court on its own motion may move to restrict access, with notice to all parties, and the court restricts access by order if it determines that the restriction is required by the rules; under Rule 6 a motion to open a restricted record must show by clear and convincing evidence a custodian mistake, a waiver by the protected party or extraordinary circumstances serving the public interest.
Wyoming is one bankruptcy district, the District of Wyoming at wyb.uscourts.gov, in Cheyenne. Its schedules name each deposit account by institution and the employer by name and are public under 11 U.S.C. 107, which supplies the account detail the divorce file lacks.
Wyoming's post-judgment tool is discovery in aid of execution under W.S. 1-17-402, which lets the judgment creditor, at any time after entry of judgment, obtain discovery by interrogatories, depositions or otherwise from any person including the judgment debtor under the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure, with execution governed by W.R.C.P. 69. The Wyoming judgments and liens page covers the procedure.
The national guide covers what stays private, the collection tools for every asset class and what a search and levy can cost: Asset Search, what public records reveal and what stays private.
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USAGov federal guide to unclaimed money. It says to check the unclaimed property office of each state where the person lived, and links federal searches for back wages, pensions, bank failures and savings bonds.
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Federal civil, criminal and bankruptcy case records, including judgments and creditor filings. Account and small per-page fee.
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Public company filings, officers, holdings and transactions reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Corporations, LLCs, officers and registered agents on file with the state, the first stop for a debtor who owns a company.
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Financing statements and secured party filings, which show lenders with a claim on business assets.
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Dormant accounts, uncashed checks and deposits held by the state in the debtor name.
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State court case records, the place to confirm the judgment, liens and earlier collection actions.
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Bankruptcy cases and creditor matters for the District of Wyoming, with case lookup through PACER.
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Records that show what someone owns come from the offices linked on this page. Balances, account numbers and other private financial information are not public records; the guide above explains who can obtain them and how a judgment reaches them.
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A Wyoming deed search begins with the county where the land lies. The Secretary of State's directory identifies the 23 county clerk offices, but its election contacts are only a starting address book. A recorder's counter can occupy another room in the same building. Establish the county, the owner's recorded name and the legal description before choosing a search product. Keep the assessment parcel identifier alongside the subdivision lot or section, township and range, rather than substituting one for the other. The county routes below cover Albany through Weston and explain where the published instructions identify different indexes, images, subscription arrangements or office services. Source: Wyoming Secretary of State county clerk directory.
The recorded instrument and its index entry answer different questions. Campbell County, for example, publishes an earlier start for its grantor and grantee index than for its images and legal descriptions. That means a name result can be useful even when the associated image cannot be opened remotely. Save the document identifier from the index and request that document from the clerk. Conversely, an image collection can contain older scans with limited searchable fields. Source: Campbell County recording service.
For historical Wyoming property, treat the name index, tract index and document image as a chain of references. Start with the identity or parcel information you have, locate the index reference, then retrieve the corresponding instrument. Inspect its legal description and references to earlier documents before adding it to your working chain. Carbon County's converted images illustrate why this sequence matters: the county says older material uses uniform conversion dates and book-and-page retrieval. Source: Carbon County land records.
Albany County separates remote research at October 1997. Its research instructions place earlier recorded documents in ArcaSearch, with exceptions for some mining documents and corner records, and October 1997 forward in iDoc Market. The clerk supplies public computer stations and can demonstrate their use, but does not perform the research. For an older mining or corner reference, state the record category when asking for help; the broad archive description does not promise those exceptions are online. The office is at 525 Grand Avenue, Suite 202, Laramie. Public research copies are $0.25 per page, and full-size plat or survey copies made in person are $5 each. Those local copy prices are published without a separate effective date. Source: Albany County research instructions.
Albany's iDoc instructions add a useful search detail: document numbers use the XXXX-XXXX format, and the complete eight digits belong in the first document-number field. Other choices include owner name, legal description and recording-date range. The office describes day, month and year subscriptions without quoting prices in those instructions. Use the exact recorded identifier when you already have it; a broad owner-name search is a different task. If the result fails, check the hyphen and both portions of the number before assuming the image is unavailable. Source: Albany County iDoc instructions.
Big Horn County has both ArcaSearch and iDoc routes. Its clerk places documents before January 1976 in ArcaSearch and later documents in iDoc, while abstracting information has a separate January 2020 division. The office also says manual tract abstracting stopped July 1, 2021. Consequently, the last entry in a scanned tract book is not a current title search. Continue into the later electronic index and compare the parcel description rather than merely looking for another page in the old book. Books and the office's vault computers are available for local research; remote subscriptions have day, month and annual options, but the clerk's description does not supply the prices. Source: Big Horn County real estate.
Campbell County publishes a grantor and grantee index beginning August 1, 2006, but images and legal descriptions beginning December 23, 2019, through the stated validation date. iDoc access requires a subscription. The recording counter operates Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 500 South Gillette Avenue, Suite 1600, Gillette. Its present instructions say the county does not accept electronic filing. A document-submission service advertised elsewhere should therefore be checked against this county-specific instruction before arranging delivery. For recent research, note the validation date as well as the day you searched. A later upload or unfinished indexing step can affect which fields return a document, even when its recording number already exists. Source: campbellcountywy.gov.
Carbon County describes its online workflow as recording, verification and then upload, producing an approximate two-day lag. By September 2022 it reported that images extending back into the 1800s were available. Older converted images use book and page rather than a modern name search, and their uniform conversion dates are not the original recording dates. Both ArcaSearch and iDoc contain index resources; ArcaSearch index access is described as free, while iDoc document images require paid access or an office visit. The land-records counter is at 215 West Buffalo Street, Suite 217, Rawlins, telephone 307-328-2677. When requesting an old image, include the index reference rather than the conversion date, and ask whether the cited book is a deed book, mortgage book or another series. Source: carboncountywy.gov.
Converse County says iDoc contains recording information and related documents from 1985 forward, with tract and subdivision books under the historical-index tab. That tab is a separate research route, not merely a second way to sort current name results. If a subdivision reference is absent from the ordinary search, examine the historical books before treating the online coverage statement as incorrect. The clerk's public description says older information continues to be added as time allows. It does not establish an earlier all-document start date. Record the book title and page used to reach an instrument so that later additions to the searchable index do not erase the trail by which you found it. Source: Converse County iDoc coverage.
The Converse clerk distinguishes general office hours from recording hours. General service runs Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; recording ends at 4 p.m. The office is at 107 North Fifth Street, Suite 114, Douglas, telephone 307-358-2244. Its stated recorder duties include land transactions, subdivisions, mineral leases and mining claims. An inquiry about a mineral interest should identify that instrument category instead of assuming a residential deed search covers it. The clerk also links the Wyoming State Archives for information about microfilmed county records. Ask for the relevant series and dates before planning archival research, and retain the county instrument reference when requesting a reproduction from another repository. Source: Converse County Clerk.
Crook County offers two remote systems with different search capabilities. Its iDoc description says records from 1995 forward support grantor and grantee and legal-description research; documents back to 1920 support name research, with tract books needed for legal-description work. Vaultside is described as book-and-page research and also includes tract books. Images and index information upload nightly. The courthouse counter is at 309 Cleveland Street, Sundance; mailed recordings use P.O. Box 37, Sundance, WY 82729. For an older parcel, move from the tract book to the instrument reference rather than expecting the modern legal-description field to search the entire archive. Do not interpret the absence of an older legal-description result as absence of the underlying document. Source: Crook County recorded documents.
Fremont County publishes a detailed sequence of storage periods. Records from 1884 through 1974 are available through ArcaSearch and books; January 1975 through September 23, 1988, through ArcaSearch and microfilm; September 26, 1988, through December 30, 1994, through Tyler and books; and January 1995 forward through Tyler and office computers. The clerk expressly says that not all records are online. For a chain crossing the conversion period, build a list of missing instruments by original date and reference, then use the listed physical medium for each gap. Do not silently bridge the gap between the two September dates: ask the clerk where an instrument recorded in that interval is retrievable. The published boundaries describe the office's systems, rather than a promise that every document has the same search fields. Source: Fremont County land recording information.
Fremont's clerk office is at 450 North Second Street, Room 220, Lander, telephone 307-332-2405. The department gives landrecords@
Goshen County's online instructions distinguish index information beginning January 1994 from scanned documents beginning August 20, 2003. iDoc subscriptions cost $10 for a day, $50 for a month or $250 for a year and include unlimited printing. ArcaSearch covers the older books and microfilm; its listed subscriptions are $10 daily, $40 weekly, $75 for 30 days and $150 annually. No separate effective date accompanies those subscription prices. Paper tract entries ended December 31, 2015, and corrections made after filming remain viewable at the clerk's office. Source: Goshen County online records and subscriptions.
Goshen's land-record instructions require a postage-paid return envelope with recordings beginning July 1, 2025. The office has digitized records and provides public research computers, while staff can explain operation without conducting the search. It asks for the earlier recording reference on releases, assignments, modifications and corrections. A corrected instrument should identify itself as corrected and describe the change. Those details matter to later retrieval: an unlabelled replacement can be harder to connect to the instrument it was intended to correct. Use the complete legal description and check that the grantor, grantee and document date are consistent across the document. The county expressly rejects whiteout and blackout alterations and calls for an original or certified copy. Source: Goshen County land records.
Hot Springs County lists land records among the County Clerk's services at 415 Arapahoe Street, Thermopolis, telephone 307-864-3515. Its public clerk route links a fee schedule labelled effective 2013. Following that download led to a county sign-in screen rather than readable fee content, so the label alone does not establish the individual charges. No land-record portal coverage dates were established from the clerk material read. Give the office the instrument type, known party names and any book-and-page reference when arranging retrieval, and ask which searches can be completed at the counter. If a copy is needed, obtain its page count, certification charge and delivery cost directly. A download that requires access does not establish that the underlying public instrument is unavailable from the clerk. Source: Hot Springs County Clerk.
Johnson County describes a limited set of records available through its iDoc program and says additional records are added as they are scanned. It does not publish an exact beginning date in that description. The office offers subscription levels but does not quote those prices there. That makes a coverage question worth resolving before purchasing access for a particular older deed. Ask whether the target date and instrument category are present as images, index entries or both. The clerk's contact is 307-684-7272. Source: Johnson County iDoc program.
Laramie County divides remote images at October 24 and 25, 1985: ArcaSearch covers the earlier period back to 1868, while iDoc covers October 25, 1985, forward. The clerk directs researchers to legal descriptions instead of street addresses and identifies the assessor as a place to obtain that description. The recording office is at 309 West Twentieth Street, Suite 1600, Cheyenne. Counter viewing is free, while copies have separate charges. A parcel spanning several lots should be searched under each relevant description, with the resulting instruments compared for the property actually conveyed. Source: Laramie County real estate and recordings.
Lincoln County's public-record service warns that scanning is incomplete. It directs users to a new iDoc Market account and retains a legacy Weblink service for recorded documents before January 2015. A previous account therefore does not establish access to the replacement service. If a map is absent, the county directs the researcher to the clerk at 307-877-9056. For a parcel with older subdivisions, record which service you used for the map and which for the later deed. Compare the plat name and lot designation, including amendments, before treating documents from the two systems as one parcel history. The public-records route also links a request form and a fee chart; the form failed to load and the chart was image-only in the accessible extraction, leaving those particular request charges unverified. Source: Lincoln County public records.
Natrona County has a substantial online-image gap. Its modern land index begins in June 1994, but routine images begin January 10, 2001, with some older images available. ArcaSearch provides indexes from 1890 through May 31, 1994, and images from 1890 through December 31, 1978. The clerk identifies instruments 254062, dated January 2, 1979, through 664139, dated January 9, 2001, as office-only material. Its historical image description excludes mortgages and releases, powers of attorney, tax liens, corporations, military discharges and cemetery records. An online historical deed result consequently cannot stand in for a search of those excluded series. Use the clerk's office at 200 North Center Street, Room 157, Casper, telephone 307-235-9206, for the identified gap and for records outside the advertised collections. Source: Natrona County online record coverage.
Niobrara County directs online land-record research to Vaultside, with a paid subscription. Its public land-and-fee material did not establish an exact archive starting date or a current subscription price. The clerk's office is at 424 South Elm Street, with mail to P.O. Box 420, Lusk, WY 82225; telephone 307-334-2211. Listed service hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The linked fee schedule was an image that could not be read in this review, so no local copy price is inferred from another county. Before arranging remote research, distinguish the cost of a subscription from a clerk-issued certified copy and ask whether the needed historic book series is included. An archive subscription is useful only if it reaches the record period and search method required for the parcel. Source: Niobrara County land records and fees.
Park County's clerk route supplies both recording services and online-record links. Its main office is at 1002 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, telephone 307-527-8600 or 307-754-8600, with weekday service from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A Powell annex schedule is also published, but that intermittent service should be checked against the specific trip date. The county's posted fees distinguish recordings, surveys, water-distribution plans, liens and copies. Use the record type printed on the instrument when asking for a quote. For online work, an exact beginning date was not established from the clerk text read, despite the availability of archive and iDoc links. The existence of both links should prompt a coverage inquiry, especially when a water or mineral instrument is part of the search. Source: Park County Clerk.
Platte County describes iDoc coverage from 2002 forward. Posted subscriptions are $10 for 24 hours, $50 for 30 days or $500 for 365 days, with unlimited views and printing; the description does not state an effective date for those rates. Staff can demonstrate research but do not perform it. The office is at 800 Ninth Street, Wheatland, telephone 307-322-2315, with weekday hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The county says documents without a valid legal description may be recorded without being abstracted. A search that relies exclusively on the tract or legal-description index could therefore omit a recorded instrument. Where the document type or party history suggests another filing, add a party-name or document-reference search instead of treating the tract result as exhaustive. Source: Platte County recording information.
Sheridan County's recording and land division is in Suite B-2 at 224 South Main Street, Sheridan, telephone 307-674-2500, with recordings@
Sublette County provides a county-linked public-record query instead of requiring the same workflow used by every iDoc county. The query warns that most documents are abstracted under only one name. A person or business appearing later among the grantors or grantees may therefore be absent from a name search. The search instructions also recommend beginning legal-description searches with a small amount of text because the stored formats differ. Use that limitation constructively: try the first named party from a known document, then its legal description and recorded reference. That wording does not establish that every survey or amended map has an image, and no universal archive start date was established. Source: Sublette County official public record search.
For Sublette submissions, distinguish postal delivery from courier delivery. The clerk directs United States Postal Service mail to P.O. Box 250, Pinedale, WY 82941, and UPS or FedEx delivery to 21 South Tyler Avenue, Pinedale. Its requirements call for an original, a proper acknowledgment, readable reproduction and printed or typed names below signatures except notaries and witnesses. The document type belongs in the title, and a property identification number is appreciated. Warranty and quitclaim deeds require a Statement of Consideration. The county identifies Simplifile and CSC as electronic-recording routes. Use the office's requested identifier as supporting information, while retaining the full legal description in the instrument; a parcel number and a document title serve different indexing purposes. Source: Sublette County recording requirements.
Sweetwater County records through the County Clerk's land-record service and links iDoc for research. Its published instructions say electronic recording began December 8, 2011. They require a complete legal description for tract abstracting and caution against abbreviated assessor or GIS descriptions. A document may be recorded without a legal description but then will not be abstracted to the tract. The county also requires a completed Statement of Consideration signed by the grantee or agent before accepting a transfer of legal or equitable title. For search work, this makes a name search a useful companion to the tract index. The counter address is 80 West Flaming Gorge Way, Suite 150, Green River. An exact online archive starting date was not established from the department material read. Source: Sweetwater County land records.
Teton County's records notice says book-and-page numbering ended July 1, 2017, with subsequent recorded documents retrieved by document number. Keep older references in their original form, but do not expect a new instrument to acquire an old-style volume and page. The clerk maintains deeds, mortgages, releases and covenants as permanent records. For a search spanning the numbering change, put both forms of identifier in the request and explain which document supplied each reference. The county's public-search link returned a service error during this review, and an exact online starting date was not established. That access result concerns the web route at the time checked; the clerk remains the contact for the instrument itself. Source: Teton County records.
Uinta County advertises online land records after August 19, 1997, with earlier research at the clerk's office at 225 Ninth Street, Evanston. Source: uintacountywy.gov. Its government-hosted search presents reception-number and date-search options and posts a nightly maintenance interval from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. When a search occurs during that interval, repeat it after maintenance rather than recording the interruption as a negative finding. For a document near the advertised starting date, quote its reception number and ask the office which system contains it. The distinction between the county's stated coverage boundary and the portal's current operational status should remain in the notes. A date outside the online span needs an office search even if the form accepts that date as input. Source: Uinta County recording search.
Washakie County's ArcaSearch coverage runs from 1913 through 2007, with different record-series labels inside it. Documents from 1913 through February 1952 are organized by document type; February 1952 through August 6, 1975, is described as Photostatic Records; August 1975 through December 2007 as Aperture Cards. The clerk recommends searching all records where book-and-page numbers repeat across series. iDoc covers 2008 forward. Affidavits of survivorship are obtained directly from the clerk. The counter is at 1001 Big Horn Avenue, Worland, telephone 307-347-3131, with weekday vault access from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Source: Washakie County recording.
Weston County says its entire land vault was digitized during 2017 and 2018, with records from the county's founding onward available through Vaultside. The statement establishes broad historical scope but does not supply a single calendar starting year or current subscription charge. The vault at 1 West Main Street, Newcastle, is open on regular business days from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding holidays. Staff do not perform research. The office also accepts mailed recordings and describes electronic submission through Simplifile or CSC from January 1, 2017. If the research concerns a royalty deed, oil and gas lease, affidavit of heirship or survivorship, identify that type in the retrieval request instead of using only the general term deed. Source: Weston County Clerk.
Albany's recording instructions quote $12 for the first page and $3 for each additional page. They add $1 per grantor or claim name after five, $1 per section or block after ten and $2 per prior book-and-page or instrument reference after two. Plats are $75, survey maps meeting the stated mylar requirements are $50, and corner records are $5. No separate effective date accompanies that online list. Count the actual additional names, descriptions and references before requesting a total; page count alone does not capture every charge. A request for a copy of an existing instrument belongs under the copy service, not this new-recording schedule. Source: Albany County real estate recording.
Big Horn publishes $12 for the initial recorded page, $3 for another page, $1 for each additional qualifying party name beyond five, $1 for each qualifying legal-description unit beyond ten, and $2 for mortgage-release references beyond two. Its copy price is $0.35 per page plus tax, with certification at $5 plus the copy charge. No effective date is stated beside those figures. The office asks that multiple legal descriptions be checked with staff for an accurate charge. Source: bighorncountywy.gov.
Campbell's schedule is expressly effective July 1, 2023. It charges $12 for the first recording page, $3 thereafter, $1 per qualifying name beyond five, $1 per legal-description unit beyond ten, and $2 per book-and-page or document-number-only reference beyond two. Copies cost $0.50 per page at recording and $1 afterward; faxed pages cost $1. Emailed pages are $1 for documents recorded after June 15, 2020. An information copy of the first page with the original costs $1 at recording. Certification is $5 per instrument. Plats cost $75, maps $50, corner records $5, tax liens $20, and Title 29 or child-support liens $12 plus $3 per additional page. Ask which copy category applies before paying. Source: Campbell County fee schedule effective July 1, 2023.
Carbon's linked fee document is effective July 1, 2021, even though the land-record page labels its full-fee link with an older date. The document lists $12 initially and $3 per additional recording page, $1 for excess names beyond five, $1 for qualifying descriptions beyond ten and $2 for book-and-page references beyond two. Corner records and a metes-and-bounds map accompanying a deed are $5; plats are $75 and qualifying survey maps $50. Certification is $5 plus copies. Black-and-white copies through 11 by 17 inches are $0.25, color copies of that size $0.50, and larger pages $5. Fax sending is $3.50 per page. The PDF also requests a postage-paid return envelope, so budget delivery separately from recording. Source: Carbon County statutory fee schedule effective July 1, 2021.
Converse's published clerk schedule lists $12 plus $3 per additional recording page, $1 for excess names beyond five, $1 for legal units beyond ten and $2 for book-and-page-only references beyond two. It says quarter and quarter-quarter units are not currently charged. Plats cost $75, survey maps $50, corner records $5 and a qualifying metes-and-bounds map with a deed $5. Certification is $5 excluding copies; client-made copies are $0.25, staff copies $0.50, computer-index copies $1 and small heavy-paper plat copies $2. Fax sending is $1 per page and receipt $0.50. No overall effective date is stated. A release before July 1, 1993, is listed at $5; later lien releases are included in the original filing fee. Source: Converse County clerk fees.
Crook's current HTML fee list gives $12 for the first page and $3 for each additional page, including Title 29 liens. It adds $1 per qualifying name or claim name beyond five, $1 per legal unit beyond ten and $2 per book-and-page-only description beyond two. A map accompanying a metes-and-bounds deed and a corner record are each $5; a plat is $75 and survey map $50. Photocopies are $0.25 per page, certified copies $5, fax sending $2 and a lien search $20 per name. State and federal tax liens cost $20. The list gives no overall effective date. Ask whether the certified-copy quote includes or adds the page charges rather than treating the two listed services as interchangeable. Source: Crook County clerk fee schedule.
Fremont's fee schedule is labelled effective July 1, 2013. It lists $12 and $3 for the first and subsequent recording pages; $1 for qualifying names beyond five; $1 for legal units beyond ten; and $2 for book-and-page references beyond two. Plats are $75, survey maps $50, corner records $5 and the specified map accompanying a deed $5. Client-operated copier pages are $0.25, computer or microfilm copies $0.50, and certification $5 excluding copies. Fax sending or receiving is $0.50 per page. State and federal tax liens are $20 with $3 for additional pages. The listed medium matters when estimating a historical copy: a microfilm reproduction and a client-operated paper copy have different published rates. Source: Fremont County clerk fee schedule.
Goshen's fee schedule states an effective date of July 1, 2013, while its PDF carries a July 16, 2025, update notation. The published rates are $12 for the first recording page, $3 for each further page, $1 per excess party beyond five, $1 per legal unit beyond ten, and $2 per collateral book-and-page description beyond two. Plats are $75, survey maps $50 and corner records $5. Copies are $1 per page; certification adds $5. Tax liens and UCC filings are $20; amendments, continuations, assignments and partial releases are $5; a UCC lien search is $20. The PDF lists $4 for a sent fax unless sent to a toll-free number. Its $2 return-postage alternative should be reconciled with the current envelope requirement before mailing. Source: Goshen County clerk fee schedule, updated July 16, 2025.
Johnson's schedule, effective July 1, 2013, lists $12 for the opening recording page and $3 thereafter, with $1 for names beyond five, $1 for qualifying legal units beyond ten and $2 for book-and-page descriptions beyond two. Plats are $75, survey maps $50, corner certificates $5 and a qualifying map with a deed $5. Photocopies made by the client are $0.50 per page; certification is $5 excluding copies. Fax sending is $1 per page and receipt $0.50. Tax liens and financing statements are $20; amendments, continuations, assignments and partial releases are $5. The office says it does not accept Visa or Mastercard. Arrange another accepted payment method and obtain the actual remote subscription quote separately. Source: Johnson County clerk fees.
Laramie's current list combines the usual page and indexing categories with a local administrative charge. It gives $12 for the first page, $3 thereafter, $1 per excess name beyond five, $1 per legal unit beyond ten and $2 per prior reference beyond two. It also lists $15.50 for multiple legal or relating descriptions, regardless of submission method. Plats are $75, maps $50 and corner records $5. Paper copies cost $0.50 per page, emailed copies $1, and certification $5 excluding copies. Plat copies through 11 by 17 inches are $2, emailed plats $5 and full-size heavy-paper plats $8. No overall effective date is stated. Source: laramiecountywy.gov.
Lincoln's recording list quotes $12 for the first page and $3 for additional pages, $1 for qualifying names beyond five and $1 for legal units beyond ten. It also prints $1 for each book-and-page-only description beyond two, a figure that should be confirmed with Lincoln when preparing a payment. Survey plats are $50, subdivision plats $75, corner records $5 and state or federal tax liens $20. No effective date is displayed with this table. The same route says the Statement of Consideration must be supplied in duplicate and is for the assessor rather than recording. Do not add those assessor copies to the recorded-page count without asking how the office will process the submission. Source: Lincoln County recording fees.
Natrona's schedule is effective July 1, 2013, and lists $12 for the first recording page, $3 thereafter, $1 for qualifying legal units beyond ten, $1 for names beyond five and $2 for book-and-page or instrument-number descriptions beyond two. It expressly excludes a quarter-quarter surcharge. Plats are $75, survey maps $50, and corner recordations $5, with no fee for corners placed before July 1, 1967. The schedule lists a research service at $60 per hour with a one-hour minimum and certification at $5. Title 29 liens are $12 plus $3 per added page; tax liens and per-name lien searches are $20. Clarify the research service's scope before commissioning it, especially when the work concerns the county's office-only image interval. Source: Natrona County fee schedule effective July 1, 2013.
Park's PDF says effective July 1, 2013, updated 2025; its filename is not the effective-date evidence. Recording starts at $12 with $3 per added page, $1 for excess qualifying names or claim names beyond five and $1 per qualifying description beyond ten. Plats are $75, survey maps and water-distribution plans $50, and corner records $5. Certification is $5 per document and photocopies $0.25. The listed iDoc passes are $10 daily, $25 monthly and $100 yearly. State and federal tax liens are $20; land-recording UCC instruments and related amendments, continuations or assignments use $12 plus $3 per additional page. Ask for the land-record category when the document concerns real estate instead of assuming the vehicle-lien filing category applies. Source: Park County fee schedule updated 2025.
Platte's fee table lists $12 for an initial recording page and $3 per additional page, $1 per grantor or claim name beyond five, $1 per section or block beyond ten and $2 per book-and-page description beyond two. Plats cost $75, survey records $50, a map accompanying a metes-and-bounds deed $5 and corner records $5. Certification adds $5 per document to copies at $0.25 per page. A fax costs $3 for the first page and $0.50 for another page. Tax liens are $20, and the listed real-property lien categories are $12 plus $3 per additional page and $1 per additional collateral description. The schedule does not state an overall effective date. Keep its copy rates separate from the subscription charges quoted above. Source: Platte County clerk fee schedule.
Sheridan's fee document is revised April 19, 2022. It lists recording at $12 plus $3 per added page, $1 per legal unit beyond ten, $1 per qualifying party or claim name beyond five and $2 per book-and-page-only description beyond two. Corner records are $5, subdivision plats $75 and surveyor or engineer maps $50. Customer-made copies are $0.50 per page; staff copies and faxed, mailed or emailed pages are $1. Certification costs $5 per document plus $1 per page. State and federal tax liens are $20 with their release included. Title 29 liens and their releases are separately listed at $12 plus $3 per additional page. The distinction between a tax-lien release and a Title 29 release therefore affects the quote. Source: Sheridan County fee schedule revised April 19, 2022.
Sublette publishes $12 for the first recording page and $3 thereafter, $1 per qualifying legal description beyond ten, $1 per name beyond five and $2 per book-and-page-only description beyond two. Plats, amended plats and cemetery plats are $75; survey maps and other specified plats are $50; corner records are $5. Copies are $0.25 per page and certification $5. Title 29 liens use $12 plus $3 per extra page, with a $2 acknowledgment entry. Mining instruments have separate name and section-count provisions, and assessment affidavits list $0.25 for each additional claim beyond the first. No effective date is displayed. Describe the mining instrument and claim count to the clerk rather than applying only the ordinary deed calculation. Source: Sublette County recording fees.
Sweetwater's land-record schedule gives $12 for the first page, $3 for another page, $1 per legal unit beyond ten, $1 per qualifying surname beyond five and $2 per book-and-page-only description beyond two. Plats cost $75, maps $50, corner records $5, copies $0.25 per page and certification $5. Underground-cable filings and other specified non-UCC filings are $1.25. State and federal tax liens cost $20 with release included; lien search and certification is $20 per name or doing-business-as name. The schedule describes the included UCC termination fee as effective July 1, 1993, but gives no overall effective date for the land-record rates. That historical termination date should not be presented as the adoption date for every listed service. Source: Sweetwater County land records fees.
Teton lists $12 for the first page, $3 thereafter, $1 per qualifying name beyond five and $1 per legal unit beyond ten. Its table states $2 per book-and-page reference after the first; obtain a local quote where that threshold affects the document. County plats are $175, city plats $75, with county lots beyond ten at $10 each and city additional lots at $1. Maps of survey are $50. Paper copies cost $0.25 per page and electronic copies $1; the table separately lists $5 certification per document and a certified-copy entry of $5 for the first three pages plus $1 thereafter. Maps are $2 at 11 by 17 inches, $3 standard size and $6 oversized. No effective date accompanies the table, and its overlapping certification entries warrant clarification. Source: Teton County recording fees.
Uinta's land-record list gives recording at $12 plus $3 per added page, $1 per qualifying legal unit beyond ten, $1 per name beyond five and $2 per book-and-page-only description beyond two. Copies are $0.25 per page and its displayed certification price is $3. Plats and listed amendments are $75, survey maps $50 and corner records $5. Its lien categories include additional collateral and acknowledgment charges; mining records also have claim-name, section and assessment-affidavit provisions. The office's online list supplies no overall effective date. Obtain the county's certified-copy total using the actual document page count, and retain that quote rather than replacing its published certification amount with the amount shown by a neighboring county. Source: Uinta County land records.
Washakie's fee PDF is effective July 1, 2013. It lists $12 for the first page, $3 per subsequent page, $1 for excess names or claim names beyond five, $1 for qualifying legal units beyond ten and $2 for book-and-page descriptions beyond two. Plats are $75, survey maps $50, corner records $5 and a qualifying map with a deed $5. Certification costs $5 excluding copies. State and federal tax liens are $20 with $3 per extra page; child-support and Title 29 liens are $12 plus $3. The PDF lists a $20 lien search and certification. It does not establish an ordinary deed-copy per-page amount in the schedule read, so ask for that component before calculating a certified-copy total. Source: Washakie County recording fee schedule effective July 1, 2013.
Weston's fee list bears a 2023 heading without a more precise overall effective date. Recording is $12 initially and $3 per added page, with $1 per excess qualifying name or claim name beyond five, $1 per legal unit beyond ten and $2 per book-and-page-only description beyond two. Corner records are $5, plats $75 and survey maps $50. Paper copies are $0.50 per page, fax pages $2, and emailed plat PDFs $5 for the first page and $2 for additional pages. Its electronic-record provision lists $25 per item and possible actual outside programming, personnel or computer costs. Clerical work is $16 per hour and professional work $31. Ask which electronic-record provision governs a particular request before equating it with the separate Vaultside subscription. Source: Weston County clerk fees, 2023 heading.
Wyoming's Public Records Act is W.S. 16-4-201 through 16-4-205. Send an application to the designated public-records person. Under 16-4-202, an out-of-custody or active-use/storage notice is due within seven business days after acknowledged receipt. Readily available records are released immediately when that does not impede other duties; the general release limit is 30 calendar days after acknowledged receipt, subject to good cause and a mutually agreed date. If timing cannot be resolved, the statute provides an ombudsman complaint or district-court route. Under 16-4-203(e), request a written denial stating the law or regulation relied upon. Section 16-4-204 separates reasonable copy charges from inspection and preserves specifically prescribed fees. Keep the acknowledgment, agreed date, fee estimate and written denial with the original request so the actual dispute can be identified. Source: Wyoming Statutes, Title 16, Article 2. The Legislature publishes that PDF through its statutes download index.
Platte County designates its clerk to receive public-record requests and requires writing. It accepts its online form, email to pcclerk@
A county's electronic-recording standards apply to delivery of a new instrument, not retrieval of an existing deed. Laramie's linked standards, amended March 13, 2020, specify submission from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., letter or legal paper, black-and-white TIFF images at 300 dpi, a font of at least 12 points, a two-inch first-page top margin and one-inch remaining margins. Batches may contain no more than ten documents, though the page count is unlimited. The standards allow rejection of illegible documents and address courthouse closures. Check the rendered image itself before submission: a readable original can become an unreadable scan, and a batch total does not establish that every included instrument was accepted. Source: Laramie County electronic recording standards amended March 13, 2020.
Albany identifies CSC and Simplifile as its electronic-recording vendors. Those are submission routes, while its archive and iDoc services are research routes. If the task is to obtain a recorded deed, use the research service or clerk copy request; if it is to submit a signed instrument, follow the recording service's requirements and confirmation process. Keep the returned recording endorsement with the final document and compare its number with the later index entry. A vendor transmission receipt and a county recording endorsement represent different stages of the work. When an instrument is rejected for correction, retain the rejection message alongside the corrected file so the final submitted version is unambiguous. Source: Albany County electronic recording.
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Not fully. For unclaimed property, NAUPA (unclaimed.org) aggregates most states. For businesses, each Secretary of State runs its own index. For federal bankruptcy, PACER is the single federal source.
Most are: property deeds, business filings, UCC liens, professional licenses, and unclaimed-property balances are public by statute. Bank account balances, brokerage holdings, and private debt are not.
A Uniform Commercial Code filing that a secured creditor records against a debtor's personal property. State UCC registries (usually at the Secretary of State) make these searchable.
States typically update their databases quarterly or monthly. Holders (banks, insurers, employers) must report dormant funds annually under each state's escheatment law.
Albany instructs iDoc users to enter the complete number in XXXX-XXXX form, with the hyphen, in the first document-number field. Check that formatting before changing to a broad name search. Then verify whether the deed belongs before or after the county's archive division; the modern search screen does not replace the historical collection. Save the number exactly as it appears on the instrument and include the original book reference if one exists. A failed formatted query should be described to the clerk with the search field and number used, so the office can distinguish an input issue from missing online coverage. Source: Albany County iDoc instructions.
Not by itself. Goshen says paper tract-index entries stopped December 31, 2015. Later transactions require its computer program or iDoc, and changes made to tract books after they were filmed can be viewed at the clerk's office. Continue an older tract search into the later electronic index and ask about corrections affecting the precise entry you relied on. When the online certified date trails the recording date, search by date, instrument type or party name because the legal-description field can still be incomplete. Keep the historical tract citation and the newer instrument numbers together rather than presenting the scanned book's final entry as the current ownership result. Source: Goshen County online records and subscriptions.
The clerk identifies the interval from instrument 254062 on January 2, 1979, through instrument 664139 on January 9, 2001, as office-only. Its historical images also exclude several record series, including mortgages and releases. An archive deed image therefore does not establish that related encumbrance material was searched. List the missing numbers and the record categories before contacting the clerk, then ask how copies can be supplied if travel is impractical. Source: Natrona County online record coverage.
Sublette's official query warns that most documents are abstracted under only one name. Search the first grantor or grantee shown on a known instrument, then try a short legal-description string instead of pasting the entire description. Expand the search only after seeing how the stored text is formatted. A later-listed party's absence from the index cannot by itself establish that the person has no connection to a document; the underlying image and its full party list still need to be read. Source: Sublette County official public record search.
Include the record-series title as well as the book and page. Washakie divides its older archive among document-type books, Photostatic Records and Aperture Cards, and warns that book-and-page numbers can repeat. Search all records when a reference is ambiguous, then compare the parties, legal description and document date in each candidate image. The county directs affidavits of survivorship to the clerk, so a missing online affidavit calls for that specific inquiry. Retain the chosen series label in the copy request and in your search notes; dropping it can make an otherwise accurate book-and-page reference point to more than one document. Source: Washakie County recording.
Albany's alert instructions say alerts apply to documents recorded or modified after the alert is saved. They do not conduct historical research. Users create an account and can build conditions around grantor, grantee, legal-description or parcel information. Choose terms that correspond to the way the relevant county indexes documents, and retain a record of the conditions saved. A historical search should be completed independently using the appropriate county collections. If an alert arrives, retrieve the cited instrument and read its contents before deciding what it means; the notification establishes a match to the configured terms, not the legal effect of the document. Source: Albany County document alerts.
Sheridan's revised April 19, 2022, schedule illustrates the difference. New recording starts at $12 plus $3 for each additional page, while certification is $5 per document plus $1 per copied page. Additional names, legal descriptions or prior references can increase a recording charge without changing the number of pages in a later copy. Tell the clerk whether you are submitting a new instrument, requesting an ordinary reproduction or requesting a certified reproduction of a specific recorded instrument. Source: Sheridan County fee schedule revised April 19, 2022.
Identify the existing instrument, its county, the parties, the recorded reference and the date range. Explain which web collection failed and whether you obtained an index result. Platte's designated clerk accepts a written request through its form, email or mail, and says an immediately available document that can be emailed has no charge. That local statement does not establish every county's copy price. Ask the responsible clerk for the available format and any estimate for the specific record. Source: Platte County public records request.
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