Finding Deeds, Plats, and Liens in Harrison County

When you buy land in Harrison County, the paper trail that proves who owns what runs through the County Clerk, the county's official recorder. Deeds, subdivision plats, liens, easements, and assumed-name filings all get recorded and indexed here. For a buyer chasing down a boundary, an old easement, or a release of lien, this is where the answer actually lives.

The clerk keeps two search doors. The Tyler self-serve portal covers documents from 1886 to the present, which handles almost any modern transaction. For the deep history (original land grants and deeds back to 1840), there's a separate Kofile collection of land records running 1840 to 1920, from when people were recording titles here while Texas was still its own republic.

Keep one thing in mind: a record search isn't a title opinion. If a recorded document looks like it affects a purchase, a property line, or a lien you're trying to clear, pull the actual recorded image from the clerk and have a title company or attorney read it before you rely on your own reading.