The County Clerk Holds Deeds Back to the 1848 Land Grants

Every recorded deed, lien, plat, and easement in the county passes through the County Clerk's office in Room 124 at 400 W. Sinton Street, where Gracie Alaniz-Gonzales keeps the official record. The online public search covers documents from 1983 forward, including Commissioners Court minutes and exhibits through 2018.

Go back further and the trail keeps going. The clerk also holds land index books and volumes (deeds, oil and gas, and special deeds) running all the way to 1848. In a county that grew out of the McMullen-McGloin Irish colony, where old grants and severed mineral rights are tangled into a lot of titles, that depth of record is the difference between a clean closing and a nasty surprise.

Keep in mind what a clerk search is and isn't: it pulls the document, but it doesn't render a title opinion. When a record touches a sale, a boundary line, a mineral reservation, or an inheritance, get the actual filed instrument and have a title professional read it before you bank on what it says.