Medina County TX Liens: UCC, Tax, Mechanics & Judgments

Search Medina County, Texas recorded liens, UCC filings, tax liens, abstracts of judgment, mechanics liens and lis pendens by party name or exact document number. Get clean, flat records with the debtor, secured party or claimant, both published party sides, recording dates, legal descriptions, amounts and the county document number.

This is a dedicated single-county index.

Here is one real record from this actor. source_page is left out of this example and included in your dataset.

{
  "record_id": "2026010891",
  "document_number": "2026010891",
  "instrument_number": "2026010891",
  "doc_type": "FINANCING STATEMENT 1",
  "doc_type_code": "FS1",
  "doc_type_family": "ucc",
  "lien_category_label": "UCC financing statement",
  "doc_group": "FS",
  "is_release": false,
  "recorded_date": "2026-10-23",
  "recorded_time": "1:27 PM",
  "instrument_date": "2026-10-23",
  "book": null,
  "volume": null,
  "page": null,
  "book_volume_page": null,
  "page_count": 3,
  "grantor_name": "RAMIREZ ALYSSA",
  "grantor_names": "RAMIREZ ALYSSA",
  "grantor_count": 1,
  "grantee_name": "ISPC",
  "grantee_names": "ISPC",
  "grantee_count": 1,
  "debtor_name": "RAMIREZ ALYSSA",
  "debtor_names": "RAMIREZ ALYSSA",
  "debtor_count": 1,
  "secured_party_name": "ISPC",
  "secured_party_names": "ISPC",
  "secured_party_count": 1,
  "party_direction": "grantor_debtor",
  "direction_source": "code_map",
  "property_address": null,
  "legal_description": "Subdivision- Name: REDBIRD RANCH PHASE 2 Lot: 41 Block: 99 Unit: 3M-4",
  "municipality": null,
  "subdivision": "REDBIRD RANCH PHASE 2",
  "lot": "41",
  "block": "99",
  "unit": "3M-4",
  "parcel_numbers": null,
  "amount": null,
  "amount_text": null,
  "amount_source": null,
  "consideration": null,
  "filer_name": null,
  "filer_address": null,
  "parties_truncated": false,
  "county": "Medina",
  "state": "TX",
  "source": "Medina County Clerk, Texas - Real Property Records",
  "source_url": "https://www.medinacountytexas.org/page/County.Clerk",
  "search_role": "new_filings",
  "search_term": null,
  "search_terms": "families=ucc,tax_lien,judgment,mechanics,lien,lis_pendens; role=any; 2026-10-01..2026-10-31",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-31T07:24:04.372Z",
  "confidence": 1
}

Input | Output | Pricing

Table of contents

• What you get
• Input and filters
• Use cases
• Coverage and freshness
• Pricing
• Comparison with other Apify actors
• Related LienIntel actors
• FAQ
• Run it through the Apify API

What you get

• One row per recorded instrument, deduplicated by the Medina County Clerk document number.
• UCC financing statements (FS1) and UCC financial statement 3 (FS3) with debtor and secured-party names.
• Federal tax liens (FTL) and Texas state tax liens (STL), plus their releases (RFTL, RSTL) when releases are enabled.
• Abstracts of judgment (AJ) and releases of judgment (RELJGMT).
• HOA, assessment and other statutory liens (LIEN).
• Mechanics liens (ML).
• Lis pendens (LP).
• Every published grantor and grantee, normalized debtor and secured party / claimant roles, and a direction source so you can see how the roles were mapped.
• Recording date, instrument date, book/volume/page, page count, legal description, subdivision, lot, block, unit, parcel or reference numbers, amount and amount source.
• Filer name and return address when the Clerk publishes them.

Each record can carry these 57 fields. A field the source does not publish for a record comes back as null.

Field	Type	Description
record_id	string	County document number used as the unique record key
document_number	string	Medina County Clerk document number
instrument_number	string	Instrument number assigned by the Clerk
doc_type	string	County document type description, for example FEDERAL TAX LIEN or MECHANICS LIEN
doc_type_code	string	County document type code, for example FTL, STL, FS1, LIEN, ML or LP
doc_type_family	string	Normalized family: ucc, tax_lien, judgment, mechanics, lien, lis_pendens, release or other
lien_category_label	string	Human-readable family label
doc_group	string	County document group code
is_release	boolean	True for a release of a federal tax lien, state tax lien or judgment
recorded_date	string	Recording date in YYYY-MM-DD format
recorded_time	string	Recording time as published, when available
instrument_date	string	Instrument or judgment date in YYYY-MM-DD format
book	string	Book number, when the Clerk publishes book/page
volume	string	Volume number, when the Clerk publishes book/page
page	string	Page number, when the Clerk publishes book/page
book_volume_page	string	Raw volume/book/page string
page_count	integer	Number of pages in the recorded document
grantor_name	string	Primary grantor exactly as the Clerk indexed it
grantor_names	string	All grantors, joined with semicolons
grantor_count	integer	Number of grantor names
grantee_name	string	Primary grantee exactly as the Clerk indexed it
grantee_names	string	All grantees, joined with semicolons
grantee_count	integer	Number of grantee names
debtor_name	string	Primary debtor name when the document direction identifies a debtor
debtor_names	string	All debtor names, joined with semicolons
debtor_count	integer	Number of debtor names
secured_party_name	string	Primary secured party, claimant or lienholder when identifiable
secured_party_names	string	All secured party or claimant names, joined with semicolons
secured_party_count	integer	Number of secured party or claimant names
party_direction	string	grantor_debtor, grantee_debtor or mixed
direction_source	string	code_map, financial_heuristic, claimant_heuristic or mixed
property_address	string	Property addresses on the filing, joined with semicolons
legal_description	string	Legal descriptions, joined with a pipe
municipality	string	Municipality or city from the legal description
subdivision	string	Subdivision or condominium name
lot	string	Lot or unit number, or a low-high range
block	string	Block number
unit	string	Unit or part from the legal description
parcel_numbers	string	Parcel or reference numbers from the legal description
amount	string	Lien, judgment or tax amount when the Clerk publishes one
amount_text	string	Raw amount text from the consideration or legal description
amount_source	string	consideration or legal_description
consideration	string	Consideration amount when the Clerk publishes one
filer_name	string	Filer or return-address name
filer_address	string	Filer or return address, flattened to one string
parties_truncated	boolean	True when the Clerk truncates a long party list
county	string	County; always Medina
state	string	US state; always TX
source	string	Public source name
source_page	string	Public search page
source_url	string	Official county Clerk page
search_role	string	How the record matched: party, document_number or new_filings
search_term	string	Party name or document number that matched this record
search_terms	string	Filters used for the run
observed_at	string	Timestamp when the record was observed
confidence	integer	Record confidence, 1.0 when debtor and secured party are identified, 0.7 for mixed rows
error	string	Error message when no records were returned or the run failed; error records are not charged

Input and filters

All inputs are optional.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
partyNames	array	no	(none)	Names to search, up to 20. Partial names are supported, for example SMITH, FROST BANK or INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. Each name is searched on both the grantor and grantee side and results are deduplicated.
partyRole	string	no	"any"	Match the name as grantor, grantee, or either side. For most liens the grantor is the claimant or secured party and the grantee is the debtor; UCC initial filings reverse that direction. Values: any, grantor, grantee.
documentNumbers	array	no	(none)	Optional Medina County Clerk document or instrument numbers, up to 20. Use this to verify a known filing.
docTypeFamilies	array	no	(none)	Recorded families to include. Leave empty for all lien families. Allowed values: ucc, tax_lien, judgment, mechanics, lien, lis_pendens, release.
includeReleases	boolean	no	false	When enabled, also return recorded releases of federal tax liens, state tax liens and judgments. Releases are marked is_release=true.
dateFrom	string	no	(none)	Earliest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for the last 30 days when no search term is given, or the last 10 years when searching by name or document number.
dateTo	string	no	(none)	Latest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today.
maxRecords	integer	no	25	Maximum number of unique recorded records to return and charge. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run.

A working example to paste into the Input tab:

{
  "maxRecords": 2,
  "partyRole": "any",
  "includeReleases": false
}

Use cases

• Check financing statements west of San Antonio in Medina County, with grantor and grantee side labels.
• MCA, equipment-finance and working-capital funders monitoring new UCC filings and the incumbent secured party.
• Commercial lenders and credit teams checking lien priority and recent county-level activity.
• Collections, recovery and judgment-enforcement teams finding abstracts of judgment and releases.
• Contractors, suppliers and construction-credit teams tracking mechanics liens.

Coverage and freshness

Party direction

The Clerk does not use one party order for every instrument. The actor maps the published order per document type:

• UCC initial filings (FS1) put the debtor on the grantor side and the secured party on the grantee side.
• Federal and state tax liens put the agency on the grantor side and the debtor on the grantee side. Their releases keep that order.
• Abstracts of judgment and judgment releases put the judgment creditor on the grantor side and the debtor on the grantee side.
• HOA and other statutory liens put the claimant on the grantor side and the debtor on the grantee side.
• Lis pendens put the plaintiff or claimant on the grantor side and the owner or defendant on the grantee side.
• FS3 filings and mechanics liens are indexed in either order. FS3 rows use a conservative secured-party name test; mechanics rows use a contractor/supplier claimant test. When the direction is ambiguous, the row is marked mixed and both published party lists are still returned.

direction_source is code_map, financial_heuristic, claimant_heuristic or mixed.

• Source: Medina County Clerk real-property index, published through the County's public search.
• Jurisdiction: Medina County, Texas only.
• Volume verified for 2025-01-01 through 2026-10-31: 23,378 recorded instruments, including 431 FS1, 331 FS3, 78 FTL, 72 STL, 325 LIEN, 49 ML, 239 AJ, 141 LP, 46 RFTL, 47 RSTL and 13 RELJGMT.
• Recent volume: 1,802 instruments in September, October 2026 and 764 in October 2026.
• Latest recording observed on 2026-10-23, about eight days behind the 2026-10-31 run date. The default 30-day browse still returns current records.
• The County publishes records as they are indexed. A newly recorded instrument can take a short time to appear, and OCR-indexed party names can be incomplete on the day of recording. Re-run a party search before relying on a name that was recorded today.
• Document images and certified copies are not downloaded. The actor returns the public index data only.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify prices, read on 2026-11-06.

Event	Price	When it is charged
result	$0.015	Each record delivered to your dataset
apify-actor-start	$0.003	When a run starts, once per GB of run memory with a minimum of one

At the default 512 MB, a run that delivers 100 records costs $1.503.

• Apify asks for a maximum spend of at least $0.018 per run on this actor.
• Accounts on the free Apify plan receive up to 10 results per run.
• If nothing matches or the source fails, you get one row with an error field and no result charge. The start event still applies to the run.
• Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops delivering results when it reaches that limit.

Comparison with other Apify actors

No dedicated actor for this source on the Apify Store as of November 2026. We searched the public Store on 2026-11-06 with queries including "Medina County Texas lien", "Medina County recorder" and "Medina County ucc", and we reviewed the listings for this source and data type. Broader actors exist: shelvick/property-deed-records searches deed and lien records from county recorder indexes and regdata/us-county-recorded-documents lists county clerk records in TX, OH and MI. Their listings do not name this source, so we could not confirm that they cover it. Store listings change, so run the same search before you rely on this.

Related LienIntel actors

Other public LienIntel actors for the same buyer:

• Bexar County TX Liens: UCC, Tax, Mechanics & Judgments: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Texas
• Harris County TX UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors, Lenders: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Texas
• Johnson County TX UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors, Lenders: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Texas
• Alaska Recorder UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors & Lenders: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Alaska

FAQ

Does this cover all of Medina County?

It covers the Medina County Clerk real-property index for the document families listed above. It does not cover statewide UCC filings, district-court cases or documents recorded in another county.

Can I search a name on only one side?

Yes. Set partyRole to grantor or grantee. The default is any, which searches both sides.

Can I verify one document?

Yes. Put the Clerk's document number in documentNumbers. Exact lookups return the matching record and are charged per returned record.

Why are some rows marked mixed?

FS3 and mechanics-lien filings are indexed in either party order, and some rows do not publish enough information to identify the debtor and claimant reliably. Those rows keep the raw grantor and grantee lists and are marked mixed instead of guessing.

Are releases included by default?

No. Set includeReleases to true, or select the release family explicitly.

Is this a title search?

No. It is a public-record research tool. It does not certify title, ownership, lien priority or the legal effect of any instrument.

Is this a consumer credit report?

No. It returns public recorded documents for research and workflow automation. It is not a consumer report under the FCRA and must not be used to decide credit, employment, housing or insurance eligibility.

Run it through the Apify API

Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lienintel~medina-county-tx-lien-filings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxRecords": 2, "partyRole": "any", "includeReleases": false}'

With the Apify CLI:

$apify call lienintel/medina-county-tx-lien-filings --input '{"maxRecords": 2, "partyRole": "any", "includeReleases": false}'

Every run writes to a dataset that you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Storage tab or through the Apify API.

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LienIntel is an independent data provider and is not affiliated with any government office named on this page. Records are public and are provided for research and workflow automation. This is not a certified search and not a consumer report under the FCRA.