Madison County OH Liens: UCC, Tax, Mechanics & Workers Comp

Search Madison County, Ohio recorded liens by debtor, lender, claimant or exact document number. Get county-recorded UCC financing statements, federal tax liens and releases, mechanics liens and releases, workers-compensation liens, unemployment-compensation liens and other statutory liens with debtor and creditor names, amounts, legal descriptions, dates and document numbers in clean, flat JSON.

Madison County is a separate central-Ohio recording jurisdiction centered on London. It is not the Ohio Secretary of State UCC system, and it is not Fayette, Franklin, Clark, Madison Township or any other county recorder index. This actor reads the Madison County Recorder's public real-property index directly.

What you get

• One row per recorded lien or UCC filing — deduplicated by the Recorder document number.
• Debtor and secured-party detail — every published party and role, not just the name that matched the search.
• Amounts — federal tax-lien, mechanics-lien and workers-comp amounts when the county publishes them in the recorded legal block.
• Property data — the recorded legal description, subdivision, lot, PIN, acreage, book/volume/page and page count.
• Document data — document number, numeric type code, type description, recording date, instrument date and page count.
• Release flags — federal tax-lien, mechanics-lien, workers-compensation, unemployment-compensation and other lien releases are marked so you can separate active liens from paid-off filings.
• Matching context — the search term, search side and search type that produced the record.
• Flat snake_case fields — ready for Sheets, Airtable, BigQuery, Postgres, CRM or an API.
• No charge when nothing matches — a no-data run returns one uncharged error row.

Lien families covered

Family	County index codes	What it includes
ucc	118	UCC financing statements recorded with the county Recorder
tax_lien	39, 83	Federal tax liens and federal tax-lien releases
mechanics	51, 88	Mechanics liens and mechanics-lien releases
workers_comp	15, 121, 77	Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation liens and releases
unemployment	99, 91	Ohio Department of Job and Family Services unemployment liens and releases
other_lien	134, 87, 145	HOA, statutory and other recorded liens, releases and partial releases

Deeds, mortgages, mortgage releases, leases, easements, plats, powers of attorney, military discharges, probate and family-law records are not returned. Child-support, Medicaid, recognizance and other consumer-sensitive codes are excluded. The actor requests only the 13 verified lien, tax, mechanics, workers-comp, unemployment and other-lien codes above.

Who it is for

• MCA, ISO and equipment-finance teams — find new county UCC filings, identify the incumbent secured party and time outreach around new liens.
• Commercial lenders and credit teams — monitor a borrower or lender name for new secured-party activity.
• Collections and recovery — surface federal tax liens, mechanics liens, workers-comp liens and unemployment liens against a debtor.
• KYB and due diligence — inspect the parties, amounts, property and document data behind a recorded lien.
• Construction and supplier credit — find mechanics liens by owner, contractor or supplier.
• Ohio property and title researchers — pull Madison County lien and UCC records without a subscription.

How to use it

Search by debtor name

{
  "debtorNames": ["SMITH"],
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-31",
  "maxFilings": 25
}

Partial names are supported. Results are matched on the debtor, owner, employer or taxpayer side. The actor keeps the published grantor and grantee lists so no party is silently dropped.

Search by lender, agency or claimant

{
  "securedPartyNames": ["INTERNAL REVENUE"],
  "lienTypes": ["tax_lien"],
  "includeReleases": false,
  "maxFilings": 10
}

Results are matched on the secured-party, lien claimant, agency or creditor side. Add includeReleases: true to return tax-lien, mechanics, workers-comp and unemployment releases too.

Look up exact document numbers

{
  "documentNumbers": ["2026-5321", "2026-5313"],
  "maxFilings": 2
}

The actor returns the exact document number, not prefix matches.

Browse new recordings

Leave all names and document numbers empty to browse the selected categories for the last 30 days. Set dateFrom and dateTo to choose another window.

Filter by lien family

{
  "debtorNames": ["SMITH"],
  "lienTypes": ["ucc", "mechanics", "workers_comp"],
  "includeReleases": false,
  "maxFilings": 20
}

Input reference

Input	Type	What it does
debtorNames	string array	Search the debtor, owner, employer or grantor side, up to 20 names
securedPartyNames	string array	Search the secured-party, claimant, agency or grantee side, up to 20 names
documentNumbers	string array	Exact Recorder document numbers, up to 20
lienTypes	string array	ucc, tax_lien, mechanics, workers_comp, unemployment, other_lien
includeReleases	boolean	Include tax-lien, mechanics, workers-comp, unemployment and other lien releases; default true
dateFrom	string	Earliest recorded date, YYYY-MM-DD
dateTo	string	Latest recorded date, YYYY-MM-DD
maxFilings	integer	Maximum unique records to return and charge, 1–1000; default 25

Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run. Paid users can request up to 1,000.

Output fields

Each result includes:

• record_id, document_number, instrument_number
• doc_type, doc_type_code, doc_group, filing_type, filing_type_label
• lien_category, lien_category_label, is_release
• recorded_date, instrument_date, recorded_year
• debtor_name, debtor_names, debtor_count
• secured_party_name, secured_party_names, secured_party_count
• grantor_names, grantee_names, party_direction, direction_source, party_roles, party_count
• amount, amount_text, amount_source
• book, volume, page, book_volume_page, page_count
• legal_description, property_description, municipality, subdivision, lot, block, unit, parcel_numbers, section, township, range, acres
• remarks, marginal_reference, document_url
• county, state, source, source_page, source_url
• search_role, search_term, search_terms, search_type, match_type
• observed_at, confidence

Party direction

UCC filings, federal tax liens and releases, workers-compensation liens and releases, unemployment-compensation liens and releases, HOA/statutory liens and their releases publish the debtor, owner, employer or taxpayer on the grantor side and the secured party, agency or claimant on the grantee side.

Mechanics liens and mechanics-lien releases are indexed in either order by the county. The actor applies a conservative claimant-name heuristic; when the claimant cannot be identified from the published names, it keeps the county's published grantor-as-debtor order and sets direction_source to published. The raw grantor_names and grantee_names are always included.

Example output

{
  "document_number": "2026-5321",
  "doc_type": "FED TX LIEN",
  "doc_type_code": "39",
  "filing_type": "federal_tax_lien",
  "lien_category": "tax_lien",
  "is_release": false,
  "recorded_date": "2026-10-26",
  "debtor_name": "SEAGO SANDFORD K",
  "debtor_names": "SEAGO SANDFORD K; SEAGO MOLLY E",
  "secured_party_name": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "grantor_names": "SEAGO SANDFORD K; SEAGO MOLLY E",
  "grantee_names": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "party_direction": "grantor_debtor",
  "direction_source": "published",
  "book": "OR",
  "volume": "460",
  "page": "1773",
  "book_volume_page": "OR/460/1773",
  "amount": 124897.94,
  "amount_text": "$124,897.94",
  "amount_source": "legal_remarks",
  "parcel_numbers": "SN 554965826",
  "legal_description": "SN 554965826 | $124,897.94"
}

Coverage and freshness

• Source: Madison County Recorder, Real Property department.
• Coverage: county-recorded UCC, federal tax, mechanics, workers-compensation, unemployment-compensation and other statutory liens.
• Freshness: the public index was current through 2026-10-30 when verified. The actor reads the live public index on every run.
• Volume: 261 target records in 2026 year-to-date and 26 target records in the last 30 days were verified on 2026-10-31.
• Jurisdiction note: this is a county Recorder index, not the Ohio Secretary of State UCC filing system. It also does not cover any other Ohio county.

Pricing

• $0.03 per returned record (result event).
• $0.003 actor start per run.
• No charge for no-data runs. A run that finds nothing returns one uncharged error row; the synthetic actor-start charge still applies.
• Free Apify users are capped at 10 results per run.

FAQ

Is this the Ohio Secretary of State UCC search? No. This is the Madison County Recorder's recorded-document index. Statewide Article 9 filings made with the Ohio Secretary of State are a different source.

Does it cover other Ohio counties? No. One actor covers one source: Madison County. Fayette, Franklin, Clark and other counties are separate recorder indexes.

Can I search by lender or agency? Yes. Use securedPartyNames for the secured party, lien claimant, agency or creditor side. Federal tax liens match INTERNAL REVENUE; workers-comp liens match BUREAU OF WORKERS.

Can I get only active liens? Yes. Set includeReleases to false to exclude federal tax-lien, mechanics, workers-compensation, unemployment-compensation and other lien releases.

Why do some mechanics liens show direction_source: claimant_heuristic? Madison County indexes mechanics liens and releases in either party order. The actor identifies the contractor, supplier or claimant from the published names. When the names are ambiguous, it keeps the county's published order and marks it published. The raw grantor and grantee lists are always included.

Is this an FCRA consumer report? No. This is public-record research for business, lending, KYB, due-diligence and property-research workflows. It is not an FCRA consumer report and should not be used for credit, employment or tenant decisions.

Related LienIntel actors

• Fayette County OH Liens — UCC land, tax, mechanics, workers-comp and unemployment liens.
• Hancock County OH Liens — UCC, federal tax, mechanics, workers-comp and unemployment liens.
• Stark, Tuscarawas, Clermont, Richland, Wayne and Washington County OH Liens — separate Ohio recorder indexes.
• Ohio Secretary of State UCC — statewide Article 9 filings, a different source.